First off I will start by saying that we don't exist. The universe is infinite and we are not, therefore all of our accomplishments, music, philosophies, structures we may build, and words we speak are completely transient. They even say this world has been visited by dozens of intelligent species before us, and look how much they left behind... Not much. Now, we all have chemicals in our minds convincing us that what we accomplish is important, but why is that? Nothing we do is important in reality, because we are all temporary. In other words nothing we do will ever make a big difference, and minds are accustomed to always wanting the next big and new thing because of the way our brains are wired for adaptation. What do I mean by that? The beatles, Bob Marley, Nirvana, The doors, and all of those groups that society thinks are "immortal" and are going to be remembered forever... WRONG! Look on youtube, bittorrent websites, myspace, facebook, forums, anything... And compare the number of participants in that wave of music to our modern wave of music... They are slowly but surely being left behind. In one hundred to two hundred years from now I expect them to be completely wiped from the face of this planet. But then again, will the human race even last that long to see the fate of art? Probably not. In fact, do you know that the apocalypse has been mathematically estimated to happen sometime in the 2100's? So why are you still trying to impress people... Ask yourself. Why is your job important, why is your girl/boy important, why is the art you make important? Even if it makes a change it will not make a big enough impact to save this planet or change it for any sort of eternity, and even if it does, will it inspire the new life forms that inhabit this planet when we're wiped out in the same way? Definitely not. So light up a J, turn on your favorite show or curl up and read your favorite book, because we are nothing but what the chemicals in our minds are telling us we are.
First off, I don't think consciousness can quite be summarised as 'chemicals'. Plus without consciousness, does anything really exist? And if it does, then it exists on a far lower level to an unconscious mass that is being observed. The universe as we know it, is just a science lab and we're the experiment; now think what's the most important thing in a science lab: The experiment, us.
Depends on one's belief system I suppose, a brain is ultimately chemical reactions. In fact the whole human body is based around chemical reactions. And I do believe things exist, but tell me... Does it ultimately matter and why? No disrespect brother, I just enjoy a good mind fuck, and a good theory always gets me going and I would love hearing your side of things.
Well I think things only matter when someone perceives something as being meaningful. Whether something ultimately matters or not depends on the individual: depth of meaning is subjective. But if an individual believes nothing matters I guess they're just a nihilist. Your first post suggests being happy is meaningful to you, so I guess that matters (to you at least). And I'm not religious or anything like that so don't worry about disrespect What I meant about consciousness was that nobody really understands how it works, plus if you've ever done any psychedelics or even smoked weed you'll know about shared trips and hallucinations
I've only done shrooms. But while I was tripping this one time me and my friend had a shared hallucination of a blue light revolving, but only after the trip when discussing it did we realise we saw the same thing. It makes me think there's more to the human brain than we think What about you?
Interesting.. Shrooms are my personal favorite psychedelic for that very reason. I am constantly haunted by this philosophy that I have shared in this forum and I feel more attached in a spiritual sense to my peers and this planet, it allows me to have a good time without over-analyzing this life of mine. I also have tried however LSD, DXM, Salvia divinorum, Ambien (I count this as a psychedelic, read my post about it in pharmaceuticals ) mescaline (very low dose) and MDMA. In fact while on MDMA literally all I could think about was this philosophy of brain chemicals creating our perception of reality, though I was too euphoric and I didn't really care about the anxiety provoking existential terrors of this mind set. But yeah I really hope there is more to this life than I have undermined. It is the only thing I could ever want.
