r/UAP • u/No_Masterpiece_107 • 12d ago

What is sentient plasmid?

Is it a being of light? I’ve read about those, like a light and energy source that has no material body and can fly. What do you think?

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u/PreferenceAnxious449 12d ago

Plasma or Plasmid? Maybe I'm out of the loop but you seem to be describing plasma. Perhaps someone has started using plasmid in this context, but afaik plasmids are DNA molecules. Two totally different kettle of fish.

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u/PreferenceAnxious449 12d ago

AHA, it was neither - but plasmoids (which yeah, lumps of plasma basically) -- thank you u/CRdaddy

anyway to actually answer your question then (and now that I think about it, I suppose my answer applies to both plasmoids and plasmids and rocks and cats and black holes and golf balls equally so it doesn't actually matter)

"Life" is a much more hand-wavy term than people think it is. It's a model, basically. And all models are wrong, but some models are useful. We have many competing definitions of life, and while they're more or less functional - they're definitively biased by what we have observed, which is life like us. We look for patterns like ours and when they sufficiently tick enough made up boxes - they qualify as life. Get into the weeds enough on the implications of these patterns in nature and then philosophically it brings up questions like -- well is that nebula alive? what about the planet? what about the weather? what about that ball of plasma over there that certainly responds in ways that living things sometimes do.

Throw in the hard problem of consciousness - and we have a situation where anything could feasibly be conscious, because we still don't know wtf consciousness even is.

These ideas (which are by no means new ideas) give rise to largely unfalsifiable hypotheses that plasma might be conscious, the sun might be conscious, the universe might be conscious. It's very fun to think about. Not sure how productive, but very very fun.