seeds wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:34 am
seeds wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:36 pm
You are fixating on the features of the façade while failing to look deeply into the nature of the substance that the façade is made of.
1. From the perspective of what physicists refer to as “local reality” the substance presents itself as rocks and gas clouds (and suns and planets).
2. From the perspective of what physicists refer to as “non-local reality” the substance presents itself as an informationally-based essence existing in a superpositioned state of interpenetrating oneness.
3. However, from an extreme metaphysical perspective, the substance appears to be a “mind-like” essence that is capable of becoming absolutely anything “imaginable” – just like the substance that forms our thoughts and dreams.
The point is, stop focusing on point
#1 and pay more attention to the implications of point
#3.
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Greta wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:01 pm
#3 is an extraordinary claim. Do you have extraordinary backing for that supposition?
Greta, I fully realize that anything I have to say on this matter is speculation, however, before I answer your question, would you please clarify for me in what way point #3 seems extraordinary to you?
I was mostly just teasing, you know ... the old "ha ha, don't get too excited, rocks are just rocks" buzzkill
I'm a big fan of unheralded geology and plasma which, aside from space, make up almost all of our reality. The stuff has done some interesting things in the last 13.8b years so far, obviously enough.
Maybe the very distant future will bring extraordinary evolution and subsequent developments that will connect the cosmos, to make it all work like a huge consciousness? Then again, maybe not. Issues such as interstellar space, intergalactic space, perhaps The Great Filter (as in the Fermi Paradox) or even a possible "big rip" stand in the way of that happening.
Not every animal or person gets to reach their potentials so perhaps there's no reason why the universe should do so, nor for us to be an important part of its development. For all we know we might be a small anomaly or cul-de-sac and the real action might be happening in distant parts. Or, then again, humanity might be the star players or the pioneers, or the last, for that matter.