<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 24, 2026, 8:16 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>They're Made out of Meat</b></font></a></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark See what's on my list at </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">4rr</font><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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