“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
– Carl Sagan
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Anyway, heres Tom with the Weather.” - Bill Hicks
“Hydrogen is an odorless, colorless gas which, given enough time, starts to wonder where it came from.”
— Not Einstein
A rock may be intelligence. It just thinks at a far shower rate than humans.
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels there are trolls made from rock with silicon-based brains. They are usually also dumb as rocks – until the temperature gets cold enough, then they suddenly become hyper-intelligent.
And we’re using atoms in the universe to do it.
Yeah, I know. Doesn’t help much.
We are proof we do not live in a cold uncaring universe
We are the closes system, we are the universe witnessing and caring about itself
We are an insignificant part of all there is, but that still makes us entirely a part of all there is.
Buddy I’ve got some bad news about space…it’s cold and it doesn’t give a shit.
We should have a community called /c/originalshowerthoughts
