Lowering the bar for “things I find interesting”
My course pack here says water is an ideal constituent for living systems for many reasons, including that it’s transparent to visible light, which allows our vision to be possible. But… no. It’s the other way around. It’s not that water happened to work out for us because we see visible light, it’s that we’re able to see the spectra of what we anthrocentrically refer to as “visible light” because we’re comprised of a lot of water.
It’s really just the same old “argument from design” bunk, but not in a creationist context at all and it was so weird and off-putting to find in my course material, and I was totally going to say more and then I realized holy shit my life is just so dull right now.
