This reminded me of "The Egg", a great short story by Andy Weir
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So the universe hates itself. This explains a lot.
Growing pains of an emerging consciousness.
Not looking forward to it's teenage years
It's amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?
Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with "the One".
Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.
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I love this kind of philosophy. I wish it were possible to access it on a tangible level, but sadly it seems consciousness is local phenomena
I've heard if you take certain hallucinogens you can...
shrooms can make you more empathetic, but in my case it also unlocked a new kind of depression in realizing that so many who need a change of perspective to see things that way, even for but a glimpse, never will. I felt such love and empathy for others in that moment, and such sorrow that it would never be felt nor returned by the vast majority of others; I understood perfectly in that moment what Edgar Mitchell meant by an "instant global consciousness", and how we would likely never achieve this state of enlightenment among enough individuals to matter.
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Yeah they can make you feel that way especially if you do them with a tight friend, but in reality you're still locked into your own perspective.
Maybe if more people believed we could kind of willingly feel it by proxy. Kind of like how mirror neurons let you simulate the other on your own equipment.
Can confirm that enough magic mushrooms will cause you to see and feel god.
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Yeah, but being able to conceive of it is a pretty cool consolation prize at least.
It is :)
Meditation but it would take a while to get there. It is fun to work towards it though.
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The Universe (big thing) pretending to be individuals (small thing)
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Atoms (small thing) pretending to be individuals (big thing)
Do you ever just realize that everyone is in space right now? Like, sure, there's an atmosphere, but other than that you're basically out there. The air around you is sky. The vacuum around you is universe. When you take a closer look, there are universes within universes, whole worlds of microbes, like the ones on the very surface of the keyboard I type this on - on the larger scale, ecosystems of stars, being born, evolving and dying - like in a cosmic "firework show". But they don't tend to affect each other, I think. They're so far away...
And then, there's us. We're so small yet so big. Does that make us special or just mediocre? To an ant we are giants, to a star we don't exist. Why does consciousness as we know it only exist in the middle of sizes? Maybe because it's "as we know it", and of course we only really know what things are like at our scale? Maybe sapience is subtle, and it can only be detected when you spend every moment dealing with it. Perhaps atoms are kind of conscious, and brains are the shape they make such that their consciousness field constructively interferes. Idk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth
the article is shit sadly
Spaceship Earth (or Spacecraft Earth or Spaceship Planet Earth) is a worldview encouraging everyone on Earth to act as a harmonious crew working toward the greater good.
nah
it's just saying that there's no absolute ground, no absolute physical coordinate system. (relativity)
My thought recently has been:
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The universe is physical, ie made of material stuff. There is just stuff and the forces between stuff
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Stuff is governed by physical laws
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The interractions between things are relatively simple, but get much more complex and seemingly ramdom the more stuff you add
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This seeming randomness is not true randomness because the interractions between things are governed by predictable rules
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We are made of stuff, down to the neurons in our brains
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Our actions and thoughts are ultimately directly caused by neuronal activity that is (in theory) predictable and governed by laws
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Free will and individuality aren't "real" in the way people typically mean. Our actions are determined entirely by the particles in our system interracting with the constituent parts of other systems.
My conclusion: this doesn't matter on a practical level. We still experience free will and individuality. But those things are illusions caused by the interractions of many complex systems.
This is called "determinism"
Take a look at this and it gives some room for flexibility (from a movie called Waking Life): https://youtu.be/4arOKZvuZK4
Watching this clip back on college is what solidified my love for philosophy.
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what if you live in a computer simulation, and you just see chemicals because that's part of the simulation, but there are actually none?
Spoiler
WOAH the universe is Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist??
FTFY
Hey guys! I found the giant asshole who is behind both Elon Musk and Donald Trump!
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It's amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, in his final episode responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?
Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with "the One".
Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.
it's not antique, it's continuously re-discovered. it's timeless. some might call it universal
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Makes dying a lot more comfortable when one realizes its another illusion.
Sort of but not really. Consciousness is intrinsic to a living brain. So while the basic components that we're made out of will continue on until the end of the universe, our time as unique individuals and our experience of it will come to an end. Which is a bummer for us, but that's a natural aversion that all life necessarily shares.
My personal philosophy on this is that the forces that shaped me and made me who I am will still exist after I'm gone, so it seems inevitable that some version of me will someday recombobulate by pure chance into some variation of what I represent.
Well, there's a theory that the Big Bang created both our universe which has an excess of matter and is moving forward through time; and, in the same instant, a mirror universe that has an excess of antimatter and is moving backward through time. So there's a mirror-you who, in a way, lived billions of years before you.
The next question then is: is this a cyclical event?
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Cool. WTF though.
"And I am you
And what I see is me..."
Pink Floyd, Echoes
Advaita vedanta ftw
OP should watch "Look Outside" lore videos
When a Mayan says IN LAKE'CH,
he means I AM ANOTHER YOURSELF.
Ouroboros is ouroboros.
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