Existence doesn't make sense....

This is where super string theory would come in my friend. Going down into the sub-subatomic level, little string of vibrating energy that vibrate at different frequencies make up the quarks and gluons, that in turn make up the protons and electrons that form the atoms that form molecules that all get perfectly aligned like the gears in a rolex watch to create this vast universe that we live in. Sorry for the run-on sentence.

comparing the size of our miniscule planet to the size of the universe, or better yet to the size of everything in existence is like comparing those little vibrating strings to us. we are made up of, no better yet we are the cosmos. we are the universe experiencing itself.

 

When I think about how big the universe is, I realize I'm not even thinking about how big it is. I begin to wonder if big and small are even real things anymore, or if we're all really just invisible. It almost feels like the universe is a tiny thing, I'm so lost in it. Just an idea in my mind that shrinks to nothingness.

 

We're all star dust.

 

Hmmm intresting..

 

software on a computer makes no sense in as much as it exists only as a sequence of actions undertaken internally by that machine. however, the existence of that which has no physical aspect is not unlikely.

i would point out however, that the possibility of existence having a nonphysical aspect, does not require any other claim of any one or several belief/s, to be at all accurate, or even close.

there may be no limit to things no one knows, while at the same time, what anyone pretends to know about them, is people pretending.

 

I think everything lacks a physical aspect. There really is no way of really knowing where the information that seems to organize us actually takes place. If you infer that we're in a computer, then at the end of the line is a computer creating this all. I don't know what the alternative is, because I can't see it -- there's no way to see it -- but I think it's more likely than a self-existing computer mechagod. In a way, we're totally invisible.

 

you can get lost in these metaphysical jags

or you can have a beer...

end result is the same

 

Thomas Campbell would be the physicist you are refering too, His "My Big TOE" Theory of Everything. Extremely interesting theory, if you have about 4 hours to kill check it out on youtube, covers everything from consciousness to god, to everyday life, to the placebo effect. Truly is amazing whether you chose to adopt that way of thinking or not. Never know until you try!

 

it's a mystery to me.

 

If I ever get lost in my own metaphysical hogwash thinking, I remember what the great sage Joni Mitchell said about such matters, all things considered, I'd rather be dancing than figuring out the problems of the universe. I prefer eating bagels to dancing, though.

We spend a lot of time dealing with the philosophy of mind in my cognitive science class. One of my favorite theories is emergent materialism, it's worth looking into. Also read The Mind's I. A great collection of stories! Also, if you have the time and you're interested in this sort of thing, you MUST watch this video, especially the segment at 20:40, it certainly captures Alan Watts' whole spirit of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCTI_iLavgM"]Alan Watts - Time & The More It Changes (Sausalito, California 1972) - YouTube

 

I'm not sure it works like that. Those building blocks would not be similar as those atoms etc. that constructs us.

 

exactly, atams are made up of neutrons and protons which are opposites where if it was all tennis balls they are all the same.

ok so i dont know this at all its just from how i understand it. but you asm would be correct.

 

Atoms do not resemble tennis balls. If an atom was the size of a tennis ball it would be like a fuzzy-fiery-blurry ball of violently spinning magnets that would start obliterating everything around it except other violently spinning balls of magnets.

 

What if the universe is one being, and we and the planets and suns are all of its cells, antibodies, organs, blood-like substance. Just like in our own bodies the cells carry out theyre tasks unaware of the whole picture. Granted their not conscience..... Or are they?

 

You say that as if they are two seperate subjects eace: