What is reality
Unless your way into things like auras where's kind of only two ways to think about what reality is the first view says reality is everything that would still be here if there was no one around to experience it but the problem with that is that as far as we know we humans actually do exist and a lot of the things that we can all agree are real like language or war or conciousness would not exist without us so the second view says that reality is whatever is most fundamental in the universe in the view of you want to know why the stuff arround us behave the way it does you have to look beneath the surface to see that everything is made of molecules but if you want to know why molecules do what they do you have to realize that they're just cluster of atoms and atoms or groups of protons neutrons and electrons which in turn are made of quarks and leptons are really just made of fields or strings or something intract no one's reality found a smallest chunk of the universe yet but we continue down this path if we think of particles as fluctuations that occupy a bit of space for a bit of time in other words the particle are not really what's fundamentalit's the space time thoery sit in and what is space time it's a set of coordinates three for space one for time and coordinates are just a way to talk about numbers so what is a number does it really exist somewhere yeah kind of it 's concept in our minds but it's not just like any old concept numbers are the same for everyone everywhere three to you which is the same as three to the queen of enand so by this line of reasoning the most fundamental thing that exists and it forms a basis for everything else in math but that's weird if math is really the ultimate reality then how would you explain something really complicated like conciousness you might start by saying conciousness is what human brains do and to understand brains you have to look at neutrons whicg are cells and behave according to the laws of biology but biology is just complicatedvchemistry in chemistry is just complicated physics which us we saw is ultimately math but we just said that math is a set of ideas that exist only in our mind so that means somehow we are back where we started to explain conciousness we had to rely on conciousness that may seem crazy but it's not the craziest part it turns out we construct all mathematics from the concept of an empty set better known as nothing that means that if math is whatever is mosy fundamental in the universe then reality is ultimately based on nothing which is to say that nothing is what is real
Unless your way into things like auras where's kind of only two ways to think about what reality is the first view says reality is everything that would still be here if there was no one around to experience it but the problem with that is that as far as we know we humans actually do exist and a lot of the things that we can all agree are real like language or war or conciousness would not exist without us so the second view says that reality is whatever is most fundamental in the universe in the view of you want to know why the stuff arround us behave the way it does you have to look beneath the surface to see that everything is made of molecules but if you want to know why molecules do what they do you have to realize that they're just cluster of atoms and atoms or groups of protons neutrons and electrons which in turn are made of quarks and leptons are really just made of fields or strings or something intract no one's reality found a smallest chunk of the universe yet but we continue down this path if we think of particles as fluctuations that occupy a bit of space for a bit of time in other words the particle are not really what's fundamentalit's the space time thoery sit in and what is space time it's a set of coordinates three for space one for time and coordinates are just a way to talk about numbers so what is a number does it really exist somewhere yeah kind of it 's concept in our minds but it's not just like any old concept numbers are the same for everyone everywhere three to you which is the same as three to the queen of enand so by this line of reasoning the most fundamental thing that exists and it forms a basis for everything else in math but that's weird if math is really the ultimate reality then how would you explain something really complicated like conciousness you might start by saying conciousness is what human brains do and to understand brains you have to look at neutrons whicg are cells and behave according to the laws of biology but biology is just complicatedvchemistry in chemistry is just complicated physics which us we saw is ultimately math but we just said that math is a set of ideas that exist only in our mind so that means somehow we are back where we started to explain conciousness we had to rely on conciousness that may seem crazy but it's not the craziest part it turns out we construct all mathematics from the concept of an empty set better known as nothing that means that if math is whatever is mosy fundamental in the universe then reality is ultimately based on nothing which is to say that nothing is what is real
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