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What's your crazy ideas about the existence of the universe?
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RE: What's your crazy ideas about the existence of the universe?
(March 29, 2014 at 4:53 pm)rasetsu Wrote:


(March 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm)whateverist Wrote: "The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection, and the water has no mind to retain their image."
That's a beautiful image. Imma steal it!



I would've guessed I'd stole it from you first. Some zen saying isn't it?

(March 29, 2014 at 4:53 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
(March 28, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Vegamo Wrote: I just can't wrap my head around it, the universe going through this cycle without cause or a "creator" (alien lets say).
(March 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm)whateverist Wrote: Maybe as sentient shit we just can't help ourselves from looking for intention even in pre-sentient shit. But that too is probably just a bunch of shit.
I have this hunch that the brain's template for cause and effect is modeled on physical motion, Newton's laws, and billiard ball smacking billiard ball styles of intuition. I suspect that other forms of causation are just abstractions of this fundamental template, such that we only "intuit" cause and effect where we can imagine one thing, in proximity to another, imparting some sort of "force" from one thing to the other.

That could well be. We'd certainly have reason to develop the ability to intuit vectors.
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RE: What's your crazy ideas about the existence of the universe? - by Whateverist - March 29, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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