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What if it's the other way around: what if the feeling of everything being interconnected is an illusion? When Cartesius said his famous "Cogito ergo sum" that
by mamon 8y ago
What if it's the other way around: what if the feeling of everything being interconnected is an illusion?
When Cartesius said his famous "Cogito ergo sum" that's pretty much what it meant - you can be sure that your mind exists, but not much else beyond that.
And, if you think about it, why would everything in the world be interconnected in some meaningfull way? For what we know universe is just a big bag of energy and particles interacting with each other in the random way. "It's all connected" is a cry from the human mind desperately trying to make sense out of chaos.
- spatular 8y agoThat's the point. It's the mind that separates objects out from the global mess, from the single process that unfolds. It's a good thing in a sense that it allows humans to function in the world and create more humans. Downside is that it leads to lots of unnesessary suffering when things change. And they always do, all the time.