I question my sense of value. What is it to have value? What scale would accurately measure it?
What makes a species valuable and which don’t have value? 99% of the life on this planet has gone extinct, and it’s just replaced by something else. That sort of implies that life itself is more valuable then any species or what they think.
I’ve watched a rabbit nip off flower buds along a row. The rabbit doesn’t eat them, just chews off the flower buds. Oddly enough this makes the plant produce more flowers, and as a result more seed, giving it a better chance for survival. I can’t see how the rabbit benefits from this behavior. It doesn’t eat the plant or it’s seeds. Is it a learned behavior? If not, how the heck did it become instinctual?
How can something as transient and fleeting as a thought have value? The ideas is only 1% of the work. Clearly what has the value is all the work that goes into turning an idea into something more then just an idea. Thoughts aren’t much different. Sometimes they are impossible to hold on to. Slippery little buggers. In the middle of a sentence, poof, and they can be gone. And you are left with that dumb look on your face, as you realize you really did forget what you were thinking.