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I share the feeling about it being impersonal (I've started to doubt its individuality as well). I like to think of consciousness as "the universe observing its
by rixed 1y ago
I share the feeling about it being impersonal (I've started to doubt its individuality as well). I like to think of consciousness as "the universe observing itself", but that sounds a bit too new-agey.
- dalmo3 1y ago> "the universe observing itself", but that sounds a bit too new-agey. That's hilarious. New Age has such a bad rep that the universe itself is repelled by it.
- Hoasi 1y agoNew Age is the absolute worst, even though it might contain elements of truth. A modern analogy: New Age is to spirituality what using an LLM is to reading a book in search of knowledge.
- vixen99 1y ago"[Bits of] the universe observing itself" is indisputably true. And we know (as far as we can tell) that maintaining our component atoms within a certain kind of dynamic pattern is a prerequisite for what we experience as life and consciousness. Nothing metaphysical just stubborn fact.