"Us contemplating the universe" is a belief akin to the previous belief of the Sun and the planets orbiting the Earth.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:24 AM, pol.science kid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there everyone... now i have been given this homework report on > analysing modernity and modernism and present contexts and blah... > anyways short attention i have... i ended up instead on reading and > watching videos of Hichio kaku... if i got the name right, on string > theory and 11 dimension universe and parallel universe etc. etc... now > after the little bit i understood.... what really occupied my thought > was this that... i read in a book.... i think the author was william > temple... it was in refrence to the fact that ... it is Us that > contemplate the universe... us... as individual agents... not the > stars and planets and other materials contemplating us... but us > contemplating that.... and in that way i feel so connected to the > pulse of everything ... in the sense that... i am from the > universe....so this makes the universe contempating itself.. > understanding itself..what does that mean ... although this is very > unoriginal... but today i felt it in much significance and wanted to > know what you guys think.... isnt it wonderful... that we know so > little... about anything at all!..... and we sorta fret over our > constructed lives... then another thing that i havent stopped thinking > about... Gabby once said something about constructed knowledge... what > are its implications.... it is after all.... constructed isnt it... > our knowledge base..... i dont know how to end the post... ill just > type what i feel at the moment... i am hungry...
