{"id":129250,"date":"2021-10-20T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop26"},"modified":"2021-10-20T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:23:23","slug":"earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop26","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s demise could rid galaxy of meaning, warns Brian Cox ahead of Cop26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop262.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you accept that meaning is something that emerges from sufficiently complex biological machines, then the only place those machines might exist is here; then it\u2019s correct to say that if this planet weren\u2019t here, we\u2019d live in a meaningless galaxy. That\u2019s different to life. There\u2019s a difference between life and intelligent life.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Unique events that led to civilisation mean its demise could \u2018eliminate meaning in galaxy for ever\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you accept that meaning is something that emerges from sufficiently complex biological machines, then the only place those machines might exist is here; then it\u2019s correct to say that if this planet weren\u2019t here, we\u2019d live in a meaningless galaxy. That\u2019s different to life. There\u2019s a difference between life and intelligent life.\u201d Unique events [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}