认清死亡的意义，以及生命的短暂
Basically, in physics, the arrow of time comes from entropy. The second law of thermodynamics states entropy only goes up, which means disorder in the Universe only goes up, which means concentrated free energy only goes down. If you look at living things (humans, plants, civilizations, what have you) these systems are locally reversing entropy. Humans locally reverse entropy because we have action.
In that death, there’s no concentrated energy, and everything is at the same energy level. Therefore, we’re all one thing. We’re essentially indistinguishable.
What we do as living systems accelerates getting to that state. The more complex system you create, whether it’s through computers, civilization, art, mathematics, or creating a family—you actually accelerate the heat death of the Universe. You’re pushing us towards this point where we end up as one thing.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
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- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
心性那一半，Naval 几乎在复述廊下：诚实（对自己诚实），一心一意，读塞涅卡的信（The Tao of Seneca）和 沉思录，认清死亡（认清死亡的意义，以及生命的短暂、Being Mortal），寻找意义（Men's Searching for Meanings 活出生命的意义、在终将热寂的宇宙中创造秩序）——完…
- 该寻求永生的是基因或书，不是你自己
这和 演化的成功不是个体的幸福 是同一本账的两面。那边说物种赢了、个体未必赢；顺着往下就是：那就干脆把赌注押在会传下去的信息上，别押在必然要死的载体上。认清死亡 是斯多葛那边给出的同一个结论，只是入口不同。