The Dilbert Blog: Absence of a Thing – “Recently I was wondering if life as a rock would be superior to life as a conscious entity…Perhaps you think that sitting around pain free would not be enough to make you happy. It would be boring and unfulfilling…But boredom and lack of fulfillment are types of pain. Imagine sitting around doing nothing while having no tinge of boredom, or lack of purpose, or loneliness, or any other discomfort. I think it would feel like happiness.
The ideal happy creature would be a rock with consciousness. It would have no discomfort and no goals beyond eroding.”