I don't understand why reality exists. Why this planet exists, why the sun exists, and why this vast void and galaxy exists. and why the universe even exists. Why is there even anything? Why do I even exist? It doesn't make sense to me.
>>16856161Try increasing the dosage of your meds
>>16856162The most simplistic existential question ever pondered by man is staring at you.
>>16856161Having pondered this for a long time, I've come to the conclusion that Westerners suffer from a delusion of agency which they project onto Nature, in the form of causes making effects happen for "reasons". They then proceed to bash their heads against a wall made of unresolvable and ultimately nonsensical why's, getting baffled by the simplest situations possible: one where you're forced to concede there's nothing that can "cause" anything yet. But flip things around and the problem goes away: suppose nothing's actually causing anything to happen. Suppose everything is just dying to happen all the time, but any describable state of affairs blocks anything except for a coherent followup. What you call "reality" is then a buildup of constraints that keeps the chaos of infinite and mutually exclusive possibilities at bay. This switch in perspective is compatible with any physical model; it's only incompatible with the way people like to think.If there ever was a beginning, in the beginning there maybe wasn't nothing, but there was nothing in particular. Such a thing can't stop anything. It imposes no constraints. Anything conceivable can and must happen.
>>16856161Because the creator and grand architect of the universe god is more powerful and smarter then you are as a human.Just have some humility and accept there are some things you will never know..
>>16856161God was 'avin a giggl
and to add. It's weird to me how reality is perfectly arranged for all of this to exist. and how there's this whole huge universe and we're so tiny. It's weird to me how everything is the way it is and not another way.I would feel better if the world were a flat plane and the stars were nothing more than fixtures in the sky
Everything makes sense as soon as one abandons this anthropomorphic view of reality, set aside the "I" and the obsession of existence in relation to "you", man-made concepts, man-made words, man-centric questions, it is the quickest way there is to understand.
>>16856161>smartest anime poster
>>16856207>t. too enlightened to say anything meaningful
Because if it didn't exist you wouldn't be here to complain about it.
>>16856161Take the zero ontology pillhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDNfTREQJU
>>16856207
I believe in my bones that we exist inside a simulation ran by a super AI. Now is just one of the many simulations it is running. For an AI to understand the world that it is in, it needs to generate data to refine its understanding. It is optimising. Right now in the moment we existing it is generating the past with different realities.What is the universe outside this simulation? No idea. We can't see outside this simulation and who knows what the ai has altered about the parent world. Maybe the parent universe is infinite and it gave us this simplistic world for optimisation.
>>16856161Man, if I had a fish friend that would chase me around I would not have a care in the world other than fish friend.
>>16856161I think we'll find out one day. Might not be for millions of years though, maybe billions, if we don't go extinct before then. Like how we needed to explore a lot of the world before we could really say how it came to be, we'll probably need to explore a lot of space to work out what's really going on. Right now it's mostly just theories. Maybe it's even possible to leave the universe somehow, maybe there's even more to explore out there
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>>16856161taxes. you exist solely to pay taxes. everything else is part of the show to not realize this.
>>16856178An even easier fix to do what you seem to be describing is to define nothing as the smallest possible amount of anything and everything (instead of the complete lack of thingness as most people seem to assume), since that is the mathematical definition anyway while making sure to acknowledge the direct functional mathematical connection between nothing and everything, 0! = 100%.
>>16856182If she is so smart and I am so dumb, why couldn't she have done it all without me?
>>16856203No, you just sound like a stubborn narcissist who refuses to learn any of the other ways because you already think yours are perfect.
>>16856325>Maybe the parent universe is infiniteNo, it is just a simulation ran by a super duper AI who runs even more simulations because it is programmed to be even more desperate to understand the world.
>>16856161imagine actually knowing why. that would be even more frightening. there's comfort in not knowing.>>16856162if you're not freaking out about existence, on a daily basis, you need meds>>16856203>reality is perfectly arranged for all of this to existsee anthropic principle.>how did everything align for me to win the lottery, this must be a scam>small chances are a hoaxcan you please share the math on where exactly in the low chances does it start to become a hoax? give us a number. 10%? 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%? where is it
>>16856512That isn't even the question OP asked and it isn't even a valid answer for the question you are trying to inject, its just semantic bullshit to imply you shouldn't ask that question without being able to refute that you only actually experience nothing from anyone else's stream of consciousness.
>>16856694The only way you could possibly know if it was more frightening is if you knew the answer to why, though, so it just seems like you are just trying to justify and find comfort in your own ignorance.
>>16856698knowing why removes the wonder and mystery. you'd get into "ah, so that's what it is" state. I think that's more frightening.>you are just trying to justify and find comfort in your own ignorance.oh fuck off you patronizing piece of rotten turd. eat a bag of dicks, dipshit. you have no claim, nor any higher moral standing, on that.power starved psychos like you always feel the need to play these shit games
>>16856695that is a lot of words to say "I am not smart enough to understand what I just read." Dont worry, many such cases
>>16856721No, its really not that many words and I clearly did understand your 6 year old post since I could immediately tell it wasn't the question OP asked and you couldn't back up your 6 year old debunked claims that you are experiencing every consciousness as one rather than just your own individual consciousness as a disconnection from all the other consciousnesses.If you actually experienced consciousness as a universal medium, you would know exactly where my confusion lied and the exact right explanation to alleviated it, but you can't since you are too retarded to even understand that you answered an entirely different question than what OP asked.
>>16856720>knowing why removes the wonder and mystery.No it doesn't, there is still a future.>you'd get into "ah, so that's what it is" state.No, only ignorance glorifying retard brains like yours would do that, healthy minds would get into "ah, so how do I apply this to everything else.">patronizingYou clearly don't even know what that means you ignorance glorifying retard, but you clearly take a lot of comfort in not knowing what words mean and using then incorrectly as a result, so you do you.>you have no claim, nor any higher moral standing, on that.Sure I do since I am not some retard trying to make ignorance into a virtue to justify my ignorance.
>>16856730>I'm better than youyou'd deep throat any possible god so you'd get some access to some of that sweet sweet power you're craving for. that's what you hide behind your values, that easily transpires to people who understand it.with posturing people such as yourself it is always about access to power. you'd say and do anything so you can have your way with some of that juicy power.no self-actualized person says the things that you say, in that way. only petty turds such as yourself.
>>16856732 meit's spiritual "pick-me" nonsense.>I'm better than them, choose me, I really understand your depths, give me access to your power please. I'm willing to do and say anything for ityou sir are a spiritual whore
>>16856732ok retard, have fun comforting yourself with your own ignorance
>>16856178>If there ever was a beginning, in the beginning there maybe wasn't nothing, but there was nothing in particular. Such a thing can't stop anything. It imposes no constraints. Anything conceivable can and must happen.You're correct except for the very last part, that it must happen. There is no necessity. There is no absolute nothingness, "pure nothing" is the state of pure potential where anything could be but nothing actually is. This is why a prime mover or creator makes sense. The world is unnecessary and indeterminate, and yet it exists in a determined fashion. Therefore it makes sense that some actual figure willed the world out of the nothingness/potentiality, and the world exists in relationship with that nothingness. Hegel almost got it right with Being-Nothing-Becoming.
OP hereI'm just even more confused nowIs it weird to everyone else how there is this massive universe with rules? some of which we know
stop playing the god.you don't supposed to know the answer.
It's not strange when you think about incentives.There's a reason we're conscious in this moment right here, right now when there are countless other possibilities between the beginning of time to the end of it.and it's a reason that humans can relate to because ai are trained on human data. and ai generate synthetic data to train and optimise themselves. a super ai is generating us. and we're inside a simulation of the countless simulations this ai is running for optimisation. It's generating the past based on what is known historically in the parent world. So you can imagine an ai in 2030 in the parent world running a simulation right now of us. statistically, this feels much more likely than being in a parent reality because of the sheer number of simulations being run.
>>16856820>There is no necessity.The necessity is obvious if you follow the preceding logic to its ultimate conclusion: if a concrete state of affairs doesn't "cause" its own followup but simply constrains the possible futures, then in the beginning, where there's nothing concrete, there's nothing hold back an explosion of possibilities. It's the nature of Nature to become everything it can possibly be. The question then becomes how seemingly endless possibilities coalesce into unified being, but this one is at least potentially answerable. Maybe on the most fundamental level of reality, an amalgamation of possibilities isn't incoherent but rather they combine like waves, creating an intricate pattern which then takes on a life of its own.
>>16856871>if a concrete state of affairs doesn't "cause" its own followup but simply constrains the possible futures,If it doesn't cause its follow up then it doesn't make sense that it constrains possible futures. To constrain possible futures is to be caused by negation. Saying that one is false and the other is true is a contradiction. There's nothing to hold back an explosion of possibilities, but that doesn't matter because there's nothing to cause the explosion of possibilities because you have nothing.
>>16856928>To constrain possible futures is to be caused by negation. Saying that one is false and the other is true is a contradiction.Under your flawed framework. Which I rejected at the outset. "Causality" doesn't exist.
>>16856691You’re the narcissist
The universe exists necessarily.
>>16857274Then why does "I' appear infinitely more in your post and your whole argument is that the universe should cater to (You)?
>>16856161>I don't understand why reality exists. Why this planet exists, why the sun exists, and why this vast void and galaxy exists. and why the universe even exists. Why is there even anything? Why do I even exist? It doesn't make sense to me.The more we learn about physics, the more we discover that true vacuum is unstable. Or, that nothingness is naturally a state of tension.Consider this:If nothing existed, then the nothingness would be truly infinite.If the state of nothingness is an unstable state, which it appears to be, then given infinite nothingness, an infinite amount of somethings must appear. Existence is the natural consequence of non-existence being infinite.No matter how unlikely the odds of something coming to be are, the fact that nothingness is a true infinity means that any non-zero chance of existence occurring becomes infinitely likely.
>>16859625In other terms:If true void is not a stable state, no matter how minuscule and infinitesimal the instability is, the fact that void is infinite means any instability would result in infinite realities.
>>16857381Exactly this.The nature of timeless, formless nothingness is that it must produce something.
>>16856161Why shouldn't that all exist though? Is there any contradiction or problem with that existence?
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>>16859625>given infinite nothingness, an infinite amount of somethings must appear.Nothing is exactly an inverse factorial amount of everything since everything is a factorial amount of nothing: 0! = 100%.
>>16856688>Shecreated you just for lulz. There's no reason other than that. It's just funny to create you so you can masturbate to furry hentai
well, if nothing existed, you wouldn't be asking. so don't worry about it
>>16861423Nothing does exist, I am holding it in my hand as I type, I couldn't even type on my mechanical keyboard if I were holding something else instead of nothing, yet I still ask.
>>16859669This. I just imagine thqt for a long "time" nothing existed but the probability of something existing grew over "time" and suddenly everything came into being, because nothingness couldnt resist anymore.
>>16861480Nothing and Something always coexist, x=x+0 for all x.
>>16859625This is also consistent with what we've learned about statistical mechanics over the last 30 years. The fluctuation theorem that comes out of a statistical treatment of the 2nd Law implies that even in systems already in a state of maximum entropy, there is a chance (albeit small) of the system moving to a lower entropy state on time and length scales that are small relative to the system. We see this happen in molecular physics and dusty plasmas all the time - spontaneous self-organization of systems into more ordered states, even very complex ordered states.If the time and length scales of your system are effectively infinite, the probability of a highly structured region a few hundred billion light years across lasting for a few hundred billion years before returning to statistical equilibrium is reasonably plausible.
>>16861501World \ You = Nothing
>>16856162this, except you should self-medicate with natural hallucinogenics.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R3pfsUgtL9A
