Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:
"Pain matters because a body can be damaged. Love matters because embodied beings are dependent, social and mortal. Grief matters because living bodies can be irreversibly lost. This is the thrilling intelligence of life. Meaning is not produced by raw information; it begins wherever a living body has something at stake."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/alive-body-life-experience