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One-Electron Universe

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  1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
    Space and time are illusions. So probably true in some sense...There is probably no electron at all...I mean, one would be quite arbitrary, why not two?
    1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
      Where is the machine you used to type out this comment, and when did you type it?
      1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
        Put on a VR headset and tell me where the buttons you see are?

        Space is felt and so is time. Both are sensations that consciousness feels.

        1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
          Where is the headset?
          1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
            There is no headset!

            No hay banda! and yet we hear a band..

      2. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
        Human language is poorly-suited for describing a coherent universe because you can construct all sorts of incoherent propositions (e.g. "what existed before time"/"what exists outside of reality" etc etc); philosophies/faiths have struggled with this for millennia.

        It is good enough to get laid, though.

        1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
          Yea, we use language to think, and this limitation hinders with the forming of such thoughts....
          1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
            Well, thankfully we have formal languages too that vaguely model the universe and provide a stronger model of coherent thought.
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