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Max Tegmark - How Far Does the Cosmos Go?
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2023
- Look up at the night sky. Some of those twinkles are not stars but galaxies, each with tens or hundreds of billions of stars. Even dark parts of the sky, empty to our eyes, are bright to the Hubble Telescope, teeming with innumerable galaxies. Now with multiple universes of various kinds, how far can the cosmos go? Any estimate we give will fall far short.
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Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
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Max is always such a fascinating guest! easily one of my favorites 👏
I swear, every person i look up to intellectually, robert has interviewed them. And if he hasnt, its because they have been dead before closer to truth was created. Robert's quest to understand fundamental reality by interviewing the greatest minds around the world is admirable, and even if he doesnt succeed, he has helped spread new ideas and a deep, exciting sense of curiosity to the general public. If einstien or Newton were alive today, they would be interviewed on here, which would be interesting, because their personalities are not really documented because high quality video didnt exist back then, so they are mostly mystified.
I emailed him Max Tegmark... He was so gracious he replied back to me!!! He is so nice and bright!!
The truth is, we actually don’t know, we think, may believe but ultimately we don’t know. Ask anyone about the beginning of all, the truth of it is, we actually have no idea.
Max always grabs my attention and never lets go.. His ideas concerning the real existence of platonic shapes and other mathematical patterns are not fully convincing, BUT they are impossible to ignore..
I suspect it's like asking "What are the dimensions of a thought?", given the unknowns about the nature of spacetime, and origin of (the principles of?) energy and consciousness.
I, like everyone else wonder about origin. And like everyone else I have no idea what origin looked like. But with all we know now logic indicates to me that origin itself had/has to be conscious, arbitrary, and creative. To originate all this, however huge it may be, the origin would have to act as origin arbitrarily (because there was no perceivable basis for action) consciously (to be capable of arbitrary thought and actions) and creatively (to conceive of that which it originated in the first place). It could not have happened unconsciously or even by unconscious physical reaction, because both those states are reactive to pre-existing conditions. At origin, there were no pre-existing conditions. If origin was/is conscious, and there was nothing more, followed by everything more we perceive, then the cosmos itself is conscious because it is basically constructed of consciousness.
@@johnswoodgadgets9819 I'm attuned to you're understanding. Language can distort meaning, but it seems consistent with my views, even as a young kid, which arose from consideration of 'In the beginning was the Word...'. The origin/Word being not a point in time, but eternal. Alpha and Omega.
@@fred_2021 And the Word dwells and swells within all. All existence. All particles of all universes. Because it decided to. It simply and logically cannot be otherwise. This concludes this portion of my tirade, or my witness, whichever you may perceive it to be. May the Word ever be with you.
@@johnswoodgadgets9819 And with you.
I don't believe there is an origin, just an eternal consciousness that has always been and always will be. All finite things must come from another finite thing, which leads to the problem of infinite regress, and you cannot incorporate an infinte concept into that which is finite. Only that which is infinite does not require an explanation of origin. Time does not exist on this greater plane, our universe, in which time and entropy does exist, is just an infintessimally small part of the greater whole, which is limitless.
It has always struck me as pointless for such parts of the universe to exist that we can never reach - why is it there if only to tease us and pull faces at us from hundreds, thousands, millions of light-years away? And why is the speed of light so slow? Why should it be almost impossible for us to reach even the closest stars when limited to this crawling cosmological speed limit?
Robert’s program is entitled Closer to Truth. But the more he asks questions, the more complicated the answers are. Max’s answers just boggles the mind.
Great descriptions of the different possible levels. However, every time I hear people describe the many worlds theory or things like it, I wonder, ok that may be true, but how do we find ourselves in one reality or the other?? No one ever addresses it. It opens questions about what is "I". What is consciousness, personal identity, the soul, etc.
Max is one of my favorites, watched a long interview with him on Lex. He is a pleasure to listen to, spark of sanity in a mad, mad world.
It’s strange to think that both possibilities seem equally insane: that space could have a limit, or be infinite.
If space was infinite then everything would be static, everything would be at its peak limit. And nothing would be happening. No big bang no expanding of space no new matter created or destroyed
Its not , u can logically give an explanation for a limited universe in many ways , for an infinite one .. yep it's problematic yet it's possibility of course .
While a limitless universe is unfathomable, it is however more logical, in that in a universe with limits, how could it ever be perceived what is outside of it, and what happens when you reach this barrier. And if it is an expanding universe, then what is it expanding into? An infinite universe, while incomprehensible because infinity is incomprehensible, and our brains can only perceive that which has a beginning and an end, would actually make more sense because you don't have the problem of having to explain what's outside, or what is at the endpoints.
@@digitalfootballer9032 that's called lazy thinking not logical thinking , that not logic at all .
Our MIND can comprehend infinity , wether in philosophy or mathematics .. we discuss it always , a physical infinite subject is not only incomprehensible .. u can't put a ground to it , it's fictional science .. and u call that more logical because a limited universe requires more questions .. !!!
Explain this , the universe has a start therefore it has a cause , since Ur universe is infinite , where is the cause of it . ?
The universe fundamentally speaking, is neither so-called finite, nor infinite, period. Both terms are some mental constructs, and are purely anthropocentric, nothing more. We can surely entertain such concepts, play with them, even have a playground full of such concepts of all kinds of all levels. However, at the end of the day we shouldn't forget that they are nothing but mental concepts, and limited by their very nature. What we observe, what we understand, and what we usually define in many levels as the so-called universe OUT THERE is just a tiny projection of what we think, or rather what we need want the universe to be. The reality is that, the ultimate reality is not even a 'thing' to begin with, as I would like to call it No-Thing-ness (needless to say that's different than the commonsensical nothingness we throw around everyday). It doesn't belong to any form, concept, or object that we define, observe or can even imagine. By nature it stays ineffable beyond both mind, matter, finitehood, and infinity and eternity. As Plotinus said 2000 years ago, it even stands beyond being and non-being.
I really like Max because he has a way of explaining very complex subjects in a way that everyone else can understand. You can see in the way he pauses before each answer that he makes a genuine attempt to explain things in a relatable manner rather than just regurgitating a bunch of complex physics equations and highly technically stuff that would just confuse viewers more than inform them. Sure, he's got all that technical knowledge upstairs, but he makes the explanations understandable for those of us who don't possess advanced astrophysics degrees 😂
Great stuff, thank you both.
There are many guests on CTT I can have difficulty following. Not so with Max. I’m always captivated.
We need to meet some of the more advanced beings that surely exist out there that can help us with the questions on our minds and the questions we don't even know enough to ask.
Let Max be our ambassador.
Hi , it sounds so obvious doesn’t it , intelligent beings could teach us so much about the Universe etc, and even help us to combat climate change etc etc etc . . . Except that . . . Seriously ! ! ! . . . these beings won’t have traveled half-way across the Universe because they decided one day that “Earthlings need us to answer all the unknown questions etc etc”.
. . . . No it’s more likely that Those “intelligent Beings” would be travelling all the way here to dominate and take what’s ours , I mean just look at our own history , what happened when most of our own ‘Explorers’ found New Lands . . . 🎉Death & Destruction followed closely .
behind .
I’m not being negative, I’m just saying lol 😢
Nothing wrong with being a pessimist or fatalist, it's part of the human genome, right ?😑
12:04 well, it comes down to whether the current state of the human mind is capable of understanding the true nature of reality without the means of experiencing it first 🤔
The universe goes as far as you can imagine then a little but further
Max Tegmark is awesome!
Thanks!
Thank you! 💫
So what really happen with the constant splits required for a multiverse? Every plank evolves randomly through the multiverse and we simply perceive this slice of it? Don't you need energy to constantly create new universes as the multiverse branch out? Or is it just a mathematical probability and there are no other "real" universes.
No energy is required to create a new universe since it’s only a branch being created.
Robert, I hope someday you’ll do a “State of My Truth” video. After so much input, inquiry, and contemplation, what’s your current position on consciousness and other topics? Thanks so much for a place to go to delve into things often seeming inapproachable.
These are old PBS broadcasts. Kuhn was never seeking truth only cash & neither he nor his producer ever read the comments here. Kuhn made his money as a financial shill for the criminal Chinese Communist Party, his truth is cash.
Much much more to reality than humans can ever imagine. How exciting is that!
How far?
Really far, man.
Infinity is a hard concept to grasp, but there is one concept, and the only one i can think of, that is infinite and we use every day, and that is numbers. There is no end to numbers, you can always add one more, you don't ever reach a "highest number". So who's to say the universe isn't the same. You don't ever reach an edge because there is no edge.
The farther we look the further out it goes because we are what we are looking for.
Can not comprehend a scale this large no end
When Man has discovered all the secrets of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.
Here are some questions to ponder in terms of the Kosmos creation. Why do certain rules repeat at different scaling lengths? what does that do to the order of the system? For example , electron capture made the CMBR, how did that affect the order of the kosmos.
poor robert. asking how big. it renders in real time to the observer, robert! I think Max's ending questions are spot on. The question is how much more (probably infinite), and I think another great question would have been how/if we can access them.
Or if reality is personal or impersonal?
What if someone from the infinite/eternal could appear to us?
If the universe is expanding, if the universe has an edge, then what's on the other side? What's it expanding into, empty space? How can it expand...
The universe does not have an edge. The Universe is not expanding into anything it's the scale factor that is increasing.
@@kos-mos1127 Thanks!
2000 years ago clever people on Indian continent argued how many elephants carry the Earth. I think we are not very much more advanced now in understanding the Universe 10:04
I love max
We all each hold our own cosmos, it's whatever we have folded into our consciousness, our self reflective model of reality.
Deep inside me there's a muon pondering the meaning of me.
You smoke to much pot.
If you truly believed that, you would not say it.
That’s easy , Carl Sagan will be there to greet you when you get there . 😁
Is there any channel like closer to truth where scientists from fields like physics, cosmology, philosphy, religion , neuroscience are interviewed?please do mention.
You might like Sean Carroll's channel. (I do.) He's a theoretical physicist, formerly at Caltech and now at Johns Hopkins, who has many interests.
we are now in the twilite zone.. speculating about hypothesis and imagining anything we want to..
Max is the best. Combines what we know and what might be. We don’t know but at least we do know that there is more then what we can currently measure and perceive
I really like this guy Max Tegmark. I think space(like time) is infinite in all directions.
Is this a repost?
The universe could be contracting right now and we don't know because that light hasn't reached us yet. If there is a stretching of space perhaps it can snap back like a rubber band.
0:22 No, the radius of the observable universe is not 14 billion light years just because the universe is 14 billion years old. That is a very common misconception. The universe has been expanding since the beginning so the actual radius is much larger than 14 billion light years. Max Tegmark should've pointed out this obvious mistake.
They know that, and in fact mention some 40 billion LY radius later in the video (2:50).
Good thing we have Space Force.
How far does awareness go?
If we knew the answer it would no longer be a question.
If the visible universe is 14 billion yrs. But then they tell me its actually way bigger.
Then how is it , we can take a pic of the beginning? Wouldnt that picture be out 90 billion ?
Light speed is variable.
word
The human mind cannot comprehend a system with no beginning and no end.
Advance Androids can not comprehend either but infinity do not bothers them as far as they concern they're eternal, they don't ask question begins with 'how when why'
Space is the fabric in which everything exists. What then does space exist in?
You're positing a quality or attribute to space being a fabric. Could you elaborate on what you mean by space being a fabric in which everything exists.
So you know, this is what the wisemen acknowledged as the 'Soul', however, they never referred to her as space.
How can something without properties and qualities even be considered an esse or substrata as in fabric.
The universe fundamentally speaking, is neither so-called finite, nor infinite, period. Both terms are some mental constructs, and are purely anthropocentric, nothing more. We can surely entertain such concepts, play with them, even have a playground full of such concepts of all kinds of all levels. However, at the end of the day we shouldn't forget that they are nothing but mental concepts, and limited by their very nature. What we observe, what we understand, and what we usually define in many levels as the so-called universe OUT THERE is just a tiny projection of what we think, or rather what we need want the universe to be. The reality is that, the ultimate reality is not even a 'thing' to begin with, as I would like to call it No-Thing-ness (needless to say that's different than the commonsensical nothingness we throw around everyday). It doesn't belong to any form, concept, or object that we define, observe or can even imagine. By nature it stays ineffable beyond both mind, matter, finitehood, and infinity and eternity. As Plotinus said 2000 years ago, it even stands beyond being and non-being.
Are you claustrophobic?, thinking of the Universe like this gives me Vertigo. Realizing that nothing I see is happening as I see it is another vertigo type trip. It makes zero difference in life but knowing that Jupiter is miles ahead in it's orbit from where we see it is kind of disconcerting and surreal, or that the Sun could go out and it would take a few minutes for us to know is terrifying if you let it be.
It's like a Big Swirl lollipop with us in the middle, and latency/blur increases with distance.
On this and related topics, 'terrifying" is currently an 'in' word. I don't subscribe to that club.
Oh only 14.16 billion
If you have to ask that question you plainly have no idea what the universe or cosmos or everything or the totality is. Simply reflect on what must necessarily be the characteristics of everything or universe the cosmos or the totality and once you have done that you will realise that how far does the universe go, is a completely asinine question - the whole point of universe totality cosmos or everything is that there is nothing and nowhere that is not the universe cosmos totality or call it what you will but the best thing to call it is imaginary, because it can only be imaginary. for screamingly obvious reasons - it is clearly impossible to experience the universe totality or cosmos or call it what you will - it has to be something that you imagine that self evidently.
so every thought has a branch, then those thoughts have a branch then those so every few seconds so many(infinity) branches are independently created by all life on earth and all life else where except for where there is no life, kinda think this is a little wrong
This is not reason interview?
It’s easy to define matter, yet harder to explain phenomena that are not matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. This includes atoms, elements, compounds, and any object you can touch, taste, or smell. Things that are non-matter either have no mass or else don’t fill a volume. Here are several examples:
Vacuum: By definition, a vacuum is a region that does not contain any matter. It may be bounded by a volume.
Energy: Light, heat, kinetic and potential energy, and sound are non-matter because they are massless. Objects that have mass and are matter may emit energy. For example, a swinging pendulum consists of matter, but its energy of motion is not matter. A fire consists of hot gases and plasma (matter), yet gives off light and heat (not matter).
Time: Time can be measured, but it has no mass and occupies no volume.
Rainbow: A rainbow is an optical phenomenon. It’s essentially light.
Emotions: Love, hate, and happiness may be rooted in chemistry, but feelings don’t have mass or occupy volume.
Gravity: You can feel its effects and it is associated with mass, yet it doesn’t consist of matter.
Memories: Like emotions, these are non-matter.
Dreams: Again, you can’t weigh them on a balance or enclose them in a container.
Magnetism: Forces, in general, are not matter.
Information: Information may be recorded in a physical form, but it’s really just a concept.
Music: Music is sound, which is a form of energy.
How to Tell Something Isn’t Matter
There are two simple tests you can perform to tell if something consists of matter. If it fails either test, it’s non-material.
Could the phenomenon be weighed on any scale? Matter has mass.
Does the phenomenon occupy a volume? In other words, does it take up space? All matter has physical dimensions.
Note, your senses aren’t always reliable indicators of whether or not something is matter. You can see light and feel heat, but they don’t have mass. You can hear music, but you can’t weigh it or enclose it. Two senses you can trust are smell and taste. These two senses require chemical receptors. All scents and flavors are chemical compounds, which are matter.
(Nikola Tessla: The idea of the atom being formed of electrons and protons which go whirling round each other like a miniature sun and planets is an invention of the imagination, and has no relation to the real nature of matter.
“Virtually all progress has been achieved by physicists, discoverers and inventors; in short, devotees of the science which Newton and his disciples have been and are propounding.
“Personally, it is only efforts in this direction which have claimed my energies. Similar remarks might be made with respect to other modern developments of thought. Take, for example, the electron theory. Perhaps no other has given rise to so many erroneous ideas and chimerical hopes. Everybody speaks of electrons as something entirely definite and real. Still, the fact is that nobody has isolated it and nobody has measured its charge. Nor does anybody know what it really is.
“In order to explain the observed phenomena, atomic structures have been imagined, none of which can possibly exist."
-Nikola Tesla
“Great Scientific Discovery Impends.“ The Sunday Star, Washington D.C., May 17, 1931.)
That's why their good old 'education' systems teaches us literally nothing about magnetism and also why they conjured a whole platform of pseudoscience which they use to conceal all fundamental knowledge pertaining to magnetism.
$hit, they've even established a whole apparent "Regulatory Body" to suppress all info on the detrimental effects of ALL Electromagnetic Radiation upon living Cells and organisms.
Due to all Cells being electromagnetic or electrostatic in nature, just like an Atom is "99.9% empty space" according to that pseudoscience and yet any logical mind would conclude that empty space is only empty of matter but NOT empty of field phenomena such as magnetism or the Aether itself, thus, retroductively the Atom is clearly an electrostatic dynamo over and above any mass formed within that Atom as a nuclei. All nuclei acting as an arch-form; a specific geometry which is manifest from the release of infinite potential, hence it being a dynamo.
Even 60Hz Radiowaves are harmful to living Cells as it inescapably effects the electrical ARCING processes within that electrostatic dynamo. What pseudoscience terms "an effect on the electron orbital order of the Atom/Cell" because they need to reinforce their whole Atomistic and Materialistic religion that is the Cult of infinite bumping particles that is Theoretical "science". Which isn't real science at all.
Hence why all such Theoretical pseudoscience was both conjured and promoted by the Crowns/Vaticans Jesuits whom still steer their common core curriculum to this day.
Einstein; "One Stone/Marble" up there, just a Jesuit fraud like the rest of those false "scientists"that they put upon pedestals for the citizenry to worship and idolise. Even the irrelevant Theory of Relativity he stole from Jules Henri Poincaré. Who was, ftr, just another Jesuit liar also.
Matter does not occupy volume it creates its own volume through gravitational waves.
Around 7:44 min Kuhn says: "I want to know reality, and I want to face facts". Well, than he could have better skipped this whole conversation, because the whole idea of a Multiverse is clearly not based on any fact!
The multiverse is based on evidence that there is always more cosmos.
@@kos-mos1127 There is no evidence of that at all.
*"because the whole idea of a Multiverse is clearly not based on any fact!"*
... Well, at least we can agree on that much.
@@peterdamen2161 The fact that we found gravitational waves shows that the Cosmos is infinite. Albert Einstein did not like the idea of gravitational waves because it predicted infinities in the Cosmos. Gravitational Waves stretch and warp spacetime slightly altering the rate that time passed and the location of atoms.
@@kos-mos1127 First of all, it is not a fact that we have found gravitational waves. Any idea how they have detected them? And secondly, gravitational waves don't show that the Cosmos is infinite. No idea why you think that, as it is simply not true.
How big is it ? it starts here and ends here .
So, there are universes where death is birth and you start your life as an old being and live in reverse? Or universes where you pop in and out of existence randomly! Or where you are predator and prey at the same time and every bite hurts as if you take a bite into yourself!
It goes all the way into outer space.
If Christopher Walken was a physicist...
What lies beyond the cosmos.
An imaginary number, equal to the square root of negative and hence positive for meaning concatenated with aspatio-temporal unique number one, implying geometrically it is the straight line segment side of a square with an area of negative one, fourth temporal coordinate locating a SpaceTime event breaks the law of non-contradiction : nothing is it's opposite and consequently is unsuitable for scientific modelling, but the absolute value function returns an unsigned value even for a negative argument, | -1 | = | +1 | = 1 and redefine the square root of negative one to equal negative one.
While I can imagine that the stuff that the physicists measure may be to large of a measurement even for today's mathematics. What is beyond any matter of all universes, whether there is any type of matter like our own or something differently and more refined... I could suppose that what it came out of and what is beyond any of this matter is infinitely nothing. At least of any thing measurable, and depending on what those measurable things are to be determined at some point as what reality should be defined as when it all becomes clear to human beings..., as opposed to a nothingness of infinity.
Infinite symmetries are beyond all matter. A singularity is an example of infinity in the Cosmos.
Shmem Eye Shmee Alum got sheen today!
"How far does the cosmos go?" It doesn't go anywhere. It is where it needs to be already.
If that's all there is, my friends, let's just keep dancing; let's break out the weed, and have a ball. If that's all...there is.
The cosmos doesnt have a finite distance only energy can be measured, not space platonism is false
I am trying to think of a star that is 3 light years away from the earth.
α-centauri is about 4.3 light years away.
Is there another star closer to earth than α-centauri? 😁
Proxima centaurs might be 3.something light years away.
@@PSBdad might be?
I thought it was 4.246 light Years away from the Earth?
4:44 40 billion light years in “DIAMETER” ¿¡?! I want to hear about the level FIVE universe!! Maybe reality is collocated branes. Why did you stop at 4?
The 40 billion lightyears diameter is just the "level zero" portion of the universe that we can in principle see with good telescopes.
Good point about the "parallel universe" branes.
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The issue is he said DIAMETER, not radius.
The comoving distance to the edge of the observable universe is about 46.6 billion light-years or RADIUS. I think he meant 93 billion light years in diameter, an even more impressive number. I was sorta just having fun with level 5 just as Tegmark was having fun.
@@Mentaculus42 : Right, radius, thank for clarifying your point. I didn't notice because I pay more attention to the 14 billion year age (since big bang), which is talked about much more frequently than the cosmological horizon.
He corrected himself: "err..radius". That makes a huge difference to the price of bread :)
It goes on as far as your imagination will take you.
The Cosmos is more than enough for Human needs.
The Cosmos is a little short for human imagination.
And the Cosmos is way too short, way too small for human greed.
The way he speaks reminds me of Dan Ariely. (Max is not a fraud though.)
it ends down the sewer by the graveyard near Armageddon-Avenue...
Does Max believe in the Mandela Effect?
If you close your eyes and peer into the inner dimension of your mind in an effort to discover the mind's outer boundary, the mind will appear to be infinite and have no boundary to it. However, logic dictates that it is bounded by the limited field of the living essence that makes up the sum total of your being. Well, the same thing applies to the universe, in that even though it appears to be infinite, it is not, for it is bounded by the limited field of the living essence that makes up the sum total of God's being.
....you may think its a long way to the chemists...
The Earth is flat where I'm standing. My universe is getting smaller and smaller.
You're on a beach and the tide's coming in, right?
@@fred_2021 Incorrectamundo. I'm in a liberal state that employs mandatory vaccination.
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SPACE is God's
BOUNDLESS LIGHT
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Cosmos has to infinite - what would you meet at the end of cosmos? A finite cosmos seems like an advanced version of a flat earth where you fail down if you get to far. I am not trying to offend anyone. I just think it will become obvious to us some day that cosmos is infinite.
the way people are worrying about how big is the universe i wish they worry about dying and meeting their creator who owns All of it nothing is beyond his knowledge getting closer to your creator has All the answers life in this world is limited hereafter is for ever that's the only infinity i know for sure MASHA ALLAH
There is no creator that was made up during a time when we thought the universe was just the Earth surrounded by a dome with lights sprinkled around. The Cosmos is Infinity.
Peace.
Max Tegmark da god
Intelligent Design Random Natural Processes pre existing universes multi universes infinite space eternal so much we still don't know
Closer To Truth really needs to start being a little bit more responsible and start posting the date that these interviews were originally aired. Posting videos 10 years old without telling people seems dumb when discussing science. 0:22 14 billion lightyear radius?? See my point. Do better please.
Uh-oh! Get set for people in the comment section to start sounding like Charlie Chan.
The universe is infinitely big plus 1-meter
It's a figure eight..go far enough away and you end up back where you started .. you're welcome
The reason for our becoming self-conscious, or self-aware, creatures will become apparent later on, when we begin exploring the nature of being human in greater detail. But this human self-consciousness is something quite different in nature to the reality of the Consciousness that lies behind and within everything to appear as the myriad forms in existence.
Consciousness inhabits and animates creation and its creatures not unlike the power that flows through a computer to make it work in accordance with the hardware and software of the device. By this analogy, the specific physical characteristics of a creature’s body constitute the hardware, and the programming of its mind the software.
These things are important to understand because if this conceptual ground is not firm, the model we build from here will not endure, and its potential value will be lost. What all this is pointing to is that what you really are―what we all are―is an eternal, unlimited energy source capable of creating and experiencing events. What you are is this creative source, this Consciousness. Who you are is how this Consciousness works through you to express as something unique in the world.
Powerful creative Consciousness is your true and essential nature, but of course, you experience your life through the limitations of a human body, so it may not seem that you are an all-powerful being at times, or indeed ever. By its very nature, the body exists as some ‘thing’ and is, therefore, a limitation or restriction of ‘everything else possible’, to become something specific and useful―a human being. And then it must be remembered that these bodies we inhabit are a product of Mother Earth, and have developed for good reasons. Although today there are many philosophes, theories and just sheer guesses put forward to explain the purpose of our existence, none of them fully describe or satisfactorily explain the original intention for our emergence.
Some bodies born into this world have, or will develop over time, physical or mental attributes that further alter the creative opportunities and experiences available to them in a lifetime. The influence of our national culture, the general culture of our times, and the impact of our upbringing by parents and other significant people also become major influences that can place limitations on our thinking and power. Other restrictions occur as a result of the pains we might experience in life, the emotions that often get buried in the body as a result, and the accumulating limited beliefs they then give rise to. There is also the concept of ‘karmic debt’ that will limit opportunities, and this too will be discussed later in the work.
The state of your own evolved Consciousness is another factor affecting personal power. All these things limit the opportunities you have in life, and so it can be seen that although your true nature is something quite grand, you find yourself in very limiting circumstances. But it is important to keep perspective. Your essential nature is a free and unlimited Consciousness, a potential capable of eternal creation and experience. And this Consciousness was the reality before the Universe that we know emerged.
Relly quite far.
What do parallel universes tell us about dreams ?
I’m 33 and have phimosis
It’s an incoherent worldview
There is a simple proof that the multiverse or infinite universe are plain wrong.
'No jellybeans: no infinity!’
What do I mean by this? Well in an infinite number of universes or an infinite single universe there will be an infinite
number of me writing this right now. And an infinite number of me writing it with one letter different then two letters different and so on until every possible arrangement of atoms is catered for ad infinitum. So in an infinite number of these places there is a version of me who has completely conquered space time and physics and so on - a true master of the universe, as it were. And an infinite number of these characters would have chosen to visit this very place and spend their entire day throwing jellybeans at me, just for fun. So as they don’t it’s because they can’t or don’t exist. ’No jellybeans: no infinity!’ QED! ;)
This is what you get when otherwise intelligent minds go astray and become hopelessly lost in self-aggrandizing nonsense about something the little Human mind cannot ever comprehend ! 😎😎
I believe that cosmos can not go further than the skeptics and atheists' egoes had gone.
Far
Who cares! Pay your bills fist!
Lol
The focusing in the beginning is so pretentious
The discussion is silly. He can't explain or won't bother to explain his own ignorance. So he takes the opposing view, that there are clues pointing to a "possible, future, solution".
Either there is an explanatory gap or there isn't. You can't admit it's existence and then dismiss it's existence based on the "hope" you derive from current knowledge, current, incomplete knowledge. Wishful thinking isn't science, extrapolation is science fiction. Ridiculous.
It's sad tho we don't understand because most of us neva had anything now to anyone that owns something understandable how hard it is to keep inventory also let anyone of these guys get something and someone tries to steal from them all hell breaks loose