[ExI] They're Made out of Meat

[Jason Resch]

On Sun, May 24, 2026, 8:16 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *They're Made out of Meat*
> <https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html>
>

I've always enjoyed this story as a means of loosening one's carbon
chauvinism, but I heard an argument against its likelihood that I find
rather compelling.

It goes like this: if you consider all the vastly improbable fine-tuning
coincidences necessary to support the self-emergence of water soluable
carbon-based life, it would be vastly more improbable that we would exist
in a universe whose laws were simultaneously optimized to support other
classes of self-emerging life based on entirely different mechanisms.

Jason



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