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  If humanity becomes extinct, at the very least the loss is equivalent to the loss of all living individuals and the frustration of their goals. But the loss would probably be far greater than that. Human extinction means the loss of meaning generated by past generations, the lives of all future generations (and there could be  an astronomical number of future lives ) and all the value they might have been able to create. If consciousness or intelligence are lost, it might mean that value itself becomes absent from the universe. This is a huge moral reason to work hard to prevent existential threats from becoming reality. And we must not fail even once in this pursuit. IFLS -  In the daily hubbub of current “crises” facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come. Not those who will live 200 years from now, but 1,000 or 10,000 years from now. I use the word “hope” because we face risks, called  existential risks , that threaten to wipe ...

 

 

  A deluded Mind A deluded mind is hell. Without delusions. the mind is the country of the Buddhas. When the mind creates the idea of the mind. people are deluded and in hell. Those established on the path to Buddhahood don’t use the mind to create the idea of the mind and so are always in the country of the Buddhas. – Bodhidharma