The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he’s got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.
You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?
What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.
I can’t believe you would even ask me that
Delicious spacedust.
It was exploded, then turned onto something green eventually, then something haunted consumed and excreted it, then something WAY MORE HAUNTED did a bunch of weird shit to it like letting little things fart in it.
Such delicious spacedust.
and then downvotes it
Excellent band, by the way.
I had very similar thoughts at my last Explosions in the Sky concert while tripping on acid and mushrooms.
That sounds awesome.
Taking some shrooms after the acid peaks is great to extend the trip.
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.
No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking
An explosion is pure entropy. It’s high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.
Life is but an entropy maximization machine.
Perhaps another way to think of it is that we’re a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
Or perhaps more eloquently:
we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart
INSUFFICIENT DATA
If only this was a response AI could give. I think it would solve a lot of the problems
A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos
I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.
Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
2Deep4Me
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I’m sure Germans have one
Realitätsverschiebung?
Numberwang
This is definitely Numberwang!
Awendering
My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn’t you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.
Not really, i left out the term reproduce because i think it has some reality. But others like sensing — does an atom changing the electron cloud due to an electric feild or nearby atom count as sensing because it senses the presence of nearby atoms or whatever?
Won’t growing constitute of some large mass body collecting more mass due to its gravitation?
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
It’s not about defining what a living being is.
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
“Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe