QUESTION FOR PSYCHONAUTS:
what do you think about the nature of reality? Do you believe your high brain when it shows you that reality is all recursive and infinitely complex and multiversal and with supernatural powerful entities and shit?
Or do you still believe that this is the only universe and timeline and that supernatural powerful entities don't actually exist?
Not all questions can be answered with language but I will try. When you see me use scare quotes I am not saying the concept is fake, more like I don't have enough spacetime or energymatter to properly deconstruct it.
"Supernatural" entities? On a normal day when my brain is running in its "materialist/survival" mode I don't really "believe" in supernatural entities. Everything is natural, from sunspots to ladybugs. Even a factory spewing out smoke or a synthetic chemical made in a lab is made of stuff taken from the Earth. A log cabin isn't that much different from a bird's nest except in scope and level of organization.
But if everything is "natural" then "natural" loses its meaning, since nothing in particular is "unnatural." Words get their meaning from contrast.
I don't necessarily believe in Gods, ghosts, spirits, etc. as they are popularly conceived. I think consciousness is a fleeting phenomenon caused by matter and energy being arranged into formations that result in memory formation and stimulus response. A memory physically isn't that much different from a sunburn or a cut. Matter contains records of past events through its own accumulation of changes. Information is physical, and so is memory and thought. Moving on.
Multiverse? Well it always seemed arbitrary to me that there would be only one universe, only one big bang, only one arbitrary set of physical laws. Outside of our universe is just an endless void? Or more properly nothing at all since not even empty space could exist beyond the universe, since space itself is all contained in the universe? Seems incomplete. For "everything" to be complete it would need to contain all possibilities, including all possible universes, with all possible timelines, sets of physical laws, etc. So "everything" would necessarily contain things that both do and do not happen in this universe. But this sounds like idealism. Just because I can conceive of everything containing that, doesn't mean it does. But if there isn't everything, and there is only something, then that is arbitrary. Why would only some things exist and not others? Seems asymmetrical. To me, everything blossoms from nothing as a set of endless possibilities. Just like space is the set of all coordinates, everything is the set of all possibilities. 3d space is length, width, height. If the 4th dimension is time, why wouldn't the 5th be possibility? why wouldn't all out comes be arranged in a higher dimensional space the way location and time is? Anyway. That is just my insight. Einstein proved time and space are related to each other in higher dimesnions, so it seems possibility could also be a dimension that behaves like time and space.
>>1544that's very interesting! Did drugs have any significant impact on your point of view?
Whoah
>>1546Sort of. It brought out what was already there and made it easier to articulate.