Dubious wrote:yiostheoy wrote:Greta wrote:The OP strikes me as musing over the Fermi paradox.
Consider a star. Why is it the most massive and intensely dynamic object for many light years? All around it is space with some planets, moons and other objects that are nothing by comparison in terms of mass and dynamics. Reality always configures itself into areas of relatively concentration and relative voids. The Earth just happens to be a mass that is information dense.
Being part of a zone with the highest information concentration for trillions of kilometres is a tough job but someone's got to be it.
That's astrophysics not Philosophy.
Since when is a scientific perspective disallowed in a philosophic one to endorse the latter's conclusion? As an existential statement it remains wholly philosophical. Your version of philosophy is one which gives it claustrophobia.
Anciently, Philosophy ventured speculatively into Science.
Oddly however, up until the time of Galileo, nobody ever trained any instruments on anything physical to make any Empirical observations.
That was flawed philosophy.
The original question of Philosophy in those ancient days was to resolve whether it made sense to blame everything on the Olympian Gods?
Thales and his successors concluded that it did not. Each of the ancients came up with their own speculative theories.
The Atomists ended up with the most feasible model and theory, and it is the one we follow in Science now, absent the quanta, quirks, and quarks that Hawking loves to babble about on tv.
Until our electron microscopes could photo-image molecules the atomist model was only a theory. Nobody doubts it now.
Religion, the original opiate of the masses since ancient times, has long since been discredited by Science, and now many neophytes and homespun folks have made Science their Religion.
Philosophy remains the pure process of thought however.
You should not pollute Philosophy with Science or with Religion.