Poll of the Day > Serious: Do you think the nature of the universe will ever be fully explained?

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I'm talking

-Why is it only this part can sustain life/easily discernible to see life as opposed to others

-origin of the ancestor that created all life

-what is "time" and "death" do they really exist...
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Short answer: No.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Short answer: No.

Wanna see some long answers :)
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It has already but no-one listens.
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mastermix3000 posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Short answer: No.

Wanna see some long answers :)

Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

No.
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No, we are too small and too dumb.
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Everything is connected in a logical, orderly way that can be determined (and pre-determined) using mathmatics. There is no soul, there is no chance, and all your future actions have already been determined (we just don't have the information yet).

Consciousness is an illusion of choice, but actually is a collection of past experiences and memories that determine what you will do at any given point, or any "choice" that you can make.

As far as the ultimate purpose of the universe, how it was created, what it's exact laws are, and why they are in place, that is information that would destroy the actual purpose of the universe so it can not be known to us. While everything is pre-determined, it does not appear that way to us, and there is an illusion of free will. This illusion is, in a very basic sense, the ultimate purpose, or at least as much of it as we can understand.
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Ok by that explanation what are "we" why do the memories exist

Where are the starting and end points (if the exist)

The roles of "life" and "death"

That explanation is missing the good bits
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mastermix3000 posted...

-Why is it only this part can sustain life/easily discernible to see life as opposed to others

The universe is very large.
For life to "exist" elsewhere, both populations have to be observable simultaneously, and at least one has to be advanced enough to observe the other.

Life on a exoplanet, right now, just discovering radio waves, are invisible to us for at least 4 years to several billion years.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Short answer: No.

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Keep your weird thoughts to yourself.



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It's probably like trying to explain to an ant in your backyard how electricity works.
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mastermix3000 posted...

Ok by that explanation what are "we" why do the memories exist

Where are the starting and end points (if the exist)

The roles of "life" and "death"

That explanation is missing the good bits

The solution to infinite knowledge and understanding is limiting oneself, compartmentalizing and restricting access to information in the future. The only way to now suffer in endless boredom is to create a system that will split your mind up and limit it with an illusion of freedom. Everything is still able to be calculated, but, you limit access to the information needed to make the calculations, so the future does not appear set, choice seems to matter and life feels like it has a purpose and that the universe is random and filled with possibilities.

Knowledge that it's all pre-ordained, and that anything can be calculated in advance with enough information is bad, if it was widely known, it would probably drastically reduce the effectiveness of the solution itself. While this solution is not perfect, without the ability to cease to exist all together, it is the best solution possible.

Life exists as a distraction, as a filter and as a way to disperse the endless boredom of existence. Death is just a illusion as well, as it is just the end of one small module, a tiny part of a huge collection of sentience that breaks up the ultimate consciousness.

Memories exist, because they have to (in order to be sentient, one must have a frame of reference, a way to interact with outside stimuli, and a way to learn from experiences). The solution to the ultimate problem, boredom, involves never ending new experiences. To have experiences, one must have memories, but to have never ending experiences, you must lose those memories and be able to experience things again. That is the answer to life, the universe and everything. We are built to live, learn, experience and eventually forget it all and do it again. It's an endless cycle aimed at the most important conflict in the universe, the never ending battle against endless, eternal boredom. We are all warriors in that war.
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Bruh you should write a book, I enjoyed that
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It probably already has been figured out by aliens somewhere. The chances that humans are the first advanced civilization is completely absurd, though not impossible. Existence is literally for the sake of existence though. Something lives and chooses to continue to do so inherently unless it's defective.
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I was very close to the answer once but then the drugs wore off.
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@wolfy42, imo, There is infinite timelines where every choice ever has been made or will be made, so in a way we are destined to do something or become a certain thing, but we have unlimited choices until we make our choices for this timeline
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

The chances that humans are the first advanced civilization is completely absurd, though not impossible.

If not first, then it was a pretty close race. It's not unreasonable to assume that enough heavy elements for life didn't really exist until around the time third-generation stars appeared.
http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae465.cfm