there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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Personally, I think we think we know too much. As with many fundamentals, we have nouns for what we observe that we take as defining what we observe. Ask 'what is light', 'what is life' and you will find that, though everyone knows what they are, no one can tell you the entire story.
What is life? Where does such a thing come from in the universe?
What is consciousness? If the big bang perplexes reasoning, where does consciousness come from in the cosmos?
We don't know.
But we have terms that make it seem that we do. Just consider what not knowing truly implies, deeply and fully.
There could be explanations as yet unthought of.
Since we don't know, we have to admit that consciousness may not be a product of the universe. We can even wonder if the universe is the product of consciousness.
What we call life and death may be equivalent to 'phase change' in physics, merely a transition that can go both ways and that beings shift into and out of. We may not die in the sense that humanity has always conceived of it, nor either live really. Perhaps the personality one becomes attached to in 'life' disappears, but the information that one represents cannot be destroyed. Nothing leaves the universe, unless there is a 'beyond the universe'. So, all remains, even if memory does not. Or, it goes somewhere else, somewhere never described or imagined. It is not even imaginable. It has to be unlike anything experienced.
Therefore, everything that is important and desirable in this world may be blissfully unimportant in the grandest of grand schemes.
Even 'God', 'heaven' and every dualistic imposition we have created.
What is life? Where does such a thing come from in the universe?
What is consciousness? If the big bang perplexes reasoning, where does consciousness come from in the cosmos?
We don't know.
But we have terms that make it seem that we do. Just consider what not knowing truly implies, deeply and fully.
There could be explanations as yet unthought of.
Since we don't know, we have to admit that consciousness may not be a product of the universe. We can even wonder if the universe is the product of consciousness.
What we call life and death may be equivalent to 'phase change' in physics, merely a transition that can go both ways and that beings shift into and out of. We may not die in the sense that humanity has always conceived of it, nor either live really. Perhaps the personality one becomes attached to in 'life' disappears, but the information that one represents cannot be destroyed. Nothing leaves the universe, unless there is a 'beyond the universe'. So, all remains, even if memory does not. Or, it goes somewhere else, somewhere never described or imagined. It is not even imaginable. It has to be unlike anything experienced.
Therefore, everything that is important and desirable in this world may be blissfully unimportant in the grandest of grand schemes.
Even 'God', 'heaven' and every dualistic imposition we have created.