Existence doesn't make sense....

Really think about existence for a moment, what makes you...aware and conscious is the result of trillions of atoms arranged in a specific order(neuron structure), like WOW! Like it's not even the particles that make you, ultimately what makes you is structure! The structure those particles coalesce to make, makes your neurones, which ultimately forms your whole perception of reality and thoughts. All the experiences you have ever had, and ever will have are there because of the order in which trillions of atoms are arranged in your head. Really think about that for a moment.....the ramifications of this are mind blowing! I mean, saw I arranged trillions of tennis-ball-sized balls in space, and associated them with smaller components so i could mimic the trillions of atoms that make up a human neural system, if I arranged the vast number of balls in the right order, that whole mass of balls would all of a sudden become SELF AWARE!!!of its own existence...like wow OMG!!!who knows, maybe the whole universe is literally alive, like think about it, you got billions of galaxies, all interconnected via gravity, space is kind of like the synapse. You got billions of stars, most of which have smaller astronomical bodies orbiting them, maybe the combined masses of all bodies in the universe make up an unimaginably complex, neural system that is conscious.

 

Who says it needs to make sense

 

I've thought this since I was a child. I once asked my mom if she felt the same (with a terrible vocabulary, she probably didn't understand me) and she just said no. I never brought it up again. I feel weird when I think about it, a physical and emotional feeling at the same time that is not comparable to other feelings.

 

Right!

 

:iagree:

This is exactly how I feel! Nicely said

 

It is what it is and thats all that it is.

 

Yep! You said it makes no sense, well you just made sense out of it. One big ass spiral of conciousness man.

 

Our existence only makes sense if you take god out the equation and assume were we were created out of a random convergence of events and a lot of luck.

The earth was just far enough away from the sun to allow water to remain in liquid form, the earth which was inhospitable for the first 3.8 billion years suddenly became favorable for the formation of single celled organisms which gave rise to life on earth…etc.....


Hotwater

 

We're pretty small in the grand scheme of things.

An ant can hardly make sense of the backyard in which it resides. It may understand its ant hill, but nothing beyond that.

So maybe its not that existence doesn't make sense, but that we are not big enough to see the whole picture.

 

Yeah, the arrogance of man to assume we can understand everything


hotwater

 

lol^^^
We've got the known, the unknown,
and the
who-gives-a-fuck to know it!

 

We are but ants on this expanding conscious universe.

 

I read some where that a scientist had some theory about reality being patterns that our conciousness somehow processes into information we can use, so it may just be one big halucination of the sort. pretty hard to comprehend.

 

Existence precedes essence...

 

My existence makes no sense because, simply, through my existence there is no sense to be had. It's not until I start to define myself with concepts that there is a need for 'sense'.

Awareness doesn't need to be structured on an intellectual level to remain awareness.

 

We are as undefinable as our sensory perceptions, and everything requires everything else to be exactly as it is. I really think man's distinction from his surroundings is just an illusion. Nature has bestown upon us everything we are.

It's fascinating to think about the precise moment of one's conception or birth, how all the planets and all the galaxies are aligned in coincidence with each separate individual, dwindling down to nanoseconds if need be. Where does time begin, or are we each representatives of one discrete moment in time, one discrete universe that begins and ends with us, and continues on into eternity?

 

Thinking about existence is a nice mind fuck.

Thinking about non-existence is a sloppy orgy of problems in my mind, and nobody cleaned up.

 

how grand does the scheme get? If we are all part of a single concious like op said, is that conciousness' universe part of a bigger grander scheme of conciousness or whatever it is? What is outside the final barrier of the final outside universe?
My theory is its just void space, impossible for existence to go any further. Ya def no logic that anyone can get, mabey the universe is infinite, just keeps going. Infinite forms of life and possibilities. Fuckin amazing subject. This and quantum physics.

 

Yeah this is a brutal mindfuck but what intrests me more is how small can something get? Can space be infinite both ways?