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Try and "step back" and observe the universe observing itself through your mind. Your "you" is local chunk of universe coded with a capacity to consider the sma
by crancher 6y ago
Try and "step back" and observe the universe observing itself through your mind. Your "you" is local chunk of universe coded with a capacity to consider the smallest and largest scales of itself. Your mind can easily encompass the universe in thought, summing up everything known as easily as you take a breath. It's an incredible ability, cherish it!
- jonsen 6y agoThis reminds me of a physics teacher I had in elementary school: -But is there anything faster than light? -??? ... -Yes! Our thoughts. In my thoughts I can be on the moon instantly.
- EMM_386 6y agoI try to explain this to people all the time, especially on topics like panpsychism. Is the universe conscious? Well, parts of it certainly are! And those parts are learning about itself as a whole.
- patcon 6y agoYesssss! An amazingly small skin of matter (folds in spacetime) on this rock floating in space has geometry encoded with information about the deepest pores of subatomic reality, the massive scales of space and time above and beyond ourselves. It's pretty fucking incredible. [EDIT: You are a small entry lane in a highway interchange in the universe, that is the busiest fucking information nexus in the observable universe.] You might feel like you're a speck floating above kilometers of deep dark ocean, but that's just your matter. If you think about your (our!) information, we're almost more like the water itself in our permeance -- or like some sort of aerogel -- compared to anything else floating in this thing :)