GDR writes:
Sure, but it also has a dark side and maybe some day that dark side is going to overwhelm the positives. I hope and pray it doesn't.
I don't really know what you're complaining about here. It's human obtained progress that has allowed us to drag ourselves out of our caves and fight the crude animal side of our nature. We've been doing it for a very short period of time but come a very long way. There will be set backs, great societies will decline and new ones will fall but total extinction is unlikely.
As humans, we have no sense of perspective.
I'm not so sure what will happen to the universe if we aren't here to perceive it but I don't have the depth of knowledge to go further with that. (Actually, I'm not at all sure any of us do but me probably least of all. )
Absolutely nothing would happen to the universe is we were wiped off it totally. In time terms we've only been here for the blink of an eye anyway. It got on perfectly fine before us and will after us.
As humans, we have no sense of perspective.
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