This is something my son sent me. It reminded me of the nihilism discussion that was had here recently. I’d like to get your thoughts. I think you all know where he gets his brilliance. 🙂
I would like to make it clear that all that follows is no more than the musings of my damaged psyche. Whether or not you get something out of it will require contemplation on your part. Who I am is not important. And while I will not go into the story of my life suffice it to say that my very reality is tentative. I always thought differently, probably due to what we call autism but a brief lifetime of introspection and pain have brought me insights that may indeed just be useless rambling. But I will set it down to word just in case. I have autism, am schizoaffective, suffer from regular hallucinations and am plagued by innumerable and varied states of mind utterly unpredictable and uncontrollable. However this does not in all ways serve me ill for I am able to look past my petty life and uncertain perspective and compile in my mind from all that I have experienced seemingly disassociated pieces of knowledge to form a far more grand perspective on all that is.
Most people who even think of it like to philosophise about things from a very human perspective, thinking in conventional terms about concepts like “the meaning of life” and “the ideal future.” These people fail to realize that these concepts are meaningless and utterly local. In the grand scheme of things we live in a cold, unconscious and meaningless universe whose only constant is change. Basic perceptions such as the falsehood of “now” are merely the result of a brain calculating information beneficial to it from belated sources slowed by universal rules such as the speed of light. Indeed, how can we even be certain that time exists at all when it is so clearly beneficial to us animals to perceive it. Without cause there can be no effect in an ordered system and we predicate our existence on order for without it we cannot be. But can we be certain that we are “seeing” reality simply because we would not exist if we did not?
Time is said to flow forwards but there is also backwards time and an infinite cosdom of universes, and with such notions can we presume that what we understand is really happening? Alternatively can we presume it is all that is happening? We may reside in a fold of infinite reality with infinitely varying rules.
No, I say it is entirely possible that everything, what has past, what hasn’t, what is and is not and all that shall or could be is part of the same whole.
What do you think about the concept of cosdom? Have you seen things in a similar light?