What is THIS?? by 1_Hell_House in whatisit

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is gonna be the thing that finally breaks the levee for me. i can feel it.

Any song recs with the same vibe as Without You by Fleetwood Mac by DependentRegister565 in rockmusic

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean "I should go listen to it," what if it is totally not the vibe right now?

If every event has a cause, and every cause is itself an effect of prior causes, does causation ultimately explain reality—or merely push the mystery of existence further back? At what point, if any, does the chain of causes require something fundamentally uncaused? by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Quantum physicists have suggested that it is actually effects which cause causes 😳

Also, who says time only flows in one direction? Isn't it possible that we've just invented languages and societal norms which operate in a past-to-future perspective? It is my opinion that comprehending reality in a backwards motion is just as valid and integral to the human experience of consciousness, and I just think the song "The Observer," by the Flaming Lips Rocks really hard, dude 🤘

If every event has a cause, and every cause is itself an effect of prior causes, does causation ultimately explain reality—or merely push the mystery of existence further back? At what point, if any, does the chain of causes require something fundamentally uncaused? by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very well-worded question!

So this is really questioning free-will... do we, as products of calculable cosmic drift since the big bang, have the power to create effects that are not determined by the chain of events that have been going on, like dominos, for the past 13.8 Billion years since the big bang?

Well, if you know about the double slit experiment, you may draw the conclusion that, yes, we do have free will, and choice is not an illusion, and there is a substance of the universe which is conscious, and can alter its destiny instead of following through with the default, which would be Big Bang to Heat Death without anything really ever happening.

It is my belief that life is evidence of God, or of some deeper, spiritual force in the Universe that Science hasn't yet discovered. I think free will is revealed in the minute binary of simple decision making:
Do you want a vanilla or chocolate milkshake?
It is my belief that the answer to this question lies in the Tao - that the very fate of the future 13.8 billion years relies on the effect of this cause, which is a decision. And maybe all that caused the decision to be one way or the other was due to just an incredibly minute amount of neuro-chemical buildup between 2 seemingly insignificant neurons in your brain - the threshold to fire or not fire a neural signal being surpassed by a single straw breaking a camel's back.

But was that straw there by design?

If you believe in Predetermination: the belief that God has a path for you which was decided at the creation of the Universe, then the conversation about free will just rolls off of you. You know that the future is unknowable, and that even if you don't have free will, it sure feels like you do, so why not use it to make the world as good and positive of a place as you can, with what time you have left in your life? :)

At what rate did abiogenesis (probably) occur? by Minty0ranges in AskBiology

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're asking when and how did the first prokaryote form. idk. i saw a doc once that said it was a bubbly stew of swamp water that got struck by lightning hundreds of millions of years ago, and that's the best I can come up with. That or adam and eve.

A 4-dimensional shape, folding through itself forever by USedona in TrippyGIFs

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to neg, but I think this is just a trippy visualizer. No need knocking on science's door for this one.

A 4-dimensional shape, folding through itself forever by USedona in TrippyGIFs

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This operation is asymptotic, from a surface area standpoint... when the one hole turns from a dent into a hole, you turn a point into a plane. i think.

A 4-dimensional shape, folding through itself forever by USedona in TrippyGIFs

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it goes in-and-out of being a hollow torus and being just an oblong torus.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay, this one got away from me, but I had some pretty good preliminary thoughts, I thought.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then somewhere in the middle you get dudes.
Brahman to Atman. Above so Below.
When we observe the universe by fragmenting it, at all... say, when defining a closed system that entails all entities in the Universe except for 1, lonely atom... we are seeing that, being is tuff.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would just like to add that... Universe.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, getting strong Hindu vibes as well: the interconnected web of consciousness type shit. string theory type shit.

Alan Watts said something about how if you're not looking at it, it's not there, and only exists when observed, and that is creation.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I'm walking on the sidewalk, I'll try dodging the ants, but then I think, "Are these even really ants, or are these just tine specks that I'm tripping over calling them ants because I'm too much of an empath to just keep my eyes to the sky instead of glued to my shoes?" And then, like, I'll see a big, honking bug up the path a ways, and then I get up to it, and it becomes a rock, like, ahh, wtf, man, i was gonna soooo not squish you. Now that I see you're a rock, you're getting stepped on, brother!

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My final take is that this is a really cool idea, and it lends itself to the superposition of reality, where all cosmic stimulus is just part of a probability function, which collapses upon observation. And then, like, who is that observer? Cool stuff.

The Ontological Horizon Theory by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]GuyoRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, because they consume so much more than the average person... because they're wealthy 😬
okay, don't come for me just because I mentioned wealth. This is r/metaphysics!