the human mind gathers information from its surroundings.
The human society gathers information from it’s universe, from the very fabric at the smallest to the pattern that *everything* in the universe has expressed.
At different scales, shapes repeat themselves. above a certain mass in space and/or seen from the appropriate distance, objects from planets to galaxies look rather similar. When you get closer, they differentiate, i.e. planets, solar systems, spiral galaxies, nebulae, gas clouds. From the scale of the smallest planets to the size of sand or so, objects begin to take on features rather differentiated, mostly in subtle ways but a plethora of complexity at our level. Look below and things begin to resemble dots, look at those dots and there’s a level of complexity, but when you examine that complexity close enough again, it’s dots. Examine them and there’s more dots, just doing a lot of hard-to-explain stuff. Go back up and look at the universe and see there are filaments and columns and lots of really complex shapes depending on how you zoom, but at some point they all look like dots.
The universe is made out of dots that each contain unimaginable complexity when you look close enough. The unimaginable complexity is made out of dots when you look close enough.
Is it any wonder that we talk of matroishka universes? The “universe” is just the perception-bubble of the consciousness probing it.
All life probes its universe to map it.
Life arises spontaneously out of the complexity of the simplicity below it.
The mind is a map of the universe you build for yourself. A map of the universe the universe builds for itself. Another point that, when examined closely enough, reveals endless complexity that reveals dots that contain endless complexity.
As long as we seek, so shall we find. And let it ever be so.
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