Have you entertained the idea that we could be living in a simulation?

I do think that the microcosm is the starting point for understanding the macrocosm. — Jack Cummins

So how does self-knowledge and using the microcosm as the starting point help you understand the macrocosm?

I too, have entertained the notion of the Big Bang as a birthing event. But then, who was the Mother of our world? — Gnomon

I don't think we can do more than speculate, since there's no way to check for sure. Some don't even think the universe had a beginning, which renders this question futile. I do think that it's weird how something could just not exist, but then again, it's probly because i don't know how it is not to exist.

I wanna hear your thoughts on this though, it might sound like madness, so you know how brain cells look like the structure of the universe? Both of them create a world , one of them creates us the real world and the other one creates our inner world. I thought about the universe being just one big brain for a more advanced being. The big bang could be the shock that a child usually experiences when it's just born. Thoughts can be endless, just like the universe. Our thoughts also expand and happen all the time, just like the universe expands all the time. What happened before the big bang could correlate to the question of what happened before we were born. Scientists speculate that the universe will end when it reaches an absolute zero in temperature, when we die, our bodies also turn cold.

I do think it's very convenient that everything in the universe can be explained with just playing around with some numbers. So we are similar because there are proportions in the universe and in ourselves?

It seems to me that this brings a similarity between humanity as Being, and the Universe as Eternal. Both Universes within themselves. — Gus Lamarch

I think that there aren't any real similarities, we have evolved in a way that helps us understand our surroundings and feel comfortable where we live, in other words, we adapt , not our surroundings . If we were born on mars , we'd be taller , our skin would be orange and and our bones would be more dense, whereas the universe would still be the same . Although we have free will , we are still bound to the rules of the univerese .

Thing is, i have no idea myself what i'm supposed to write about, the materials i have been given are 2 videos, one is where they compare how much bigger planets are than humans , and the other video is what you'd see if you were high as a kite. And then the title for the essay is supposed to be Human- Macrocosm/Microcosm.

What would you say then?

To all the people i have asked about this subject , even people in my university, all of them told me they have no idea what this subject is. I just think it's an unpopular discussion in general, since it's based on old beliefs and religion.

I don't doubt that the forum is great, but i don't believe i have much to bring to the table.

Thank you for the pointers, but my ultimate goal was to get some ideas from others for an essay on the subject and then never return here. The reason why my post was so meagre was because i found this subject unclear and perhaps a bit dull and i was hoping others here were enthusiastic about this sort of stuff. I guess what it shows is that i shouldn't half-ass things and expect great things in return.

To be completely honest, i was pandering and being nice to get replies, and it's fair to say that i have failed miserably.

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Love is a scam, and you're gonna get burned sooner or later, and you'll be more bitter than happy about what transpired between y'all after the whole charade ends.

t's hard to believe that life, reason and
the connection of consciousness is only a coincidence. Let's imagine three rows, three columns, three
dimensions and twelve edges - A Rubick's cube. What is the mathematical probability of putting it at random? 13.8 billion years - the approximate age of the universe. If we sent someone in the past with a mixed Rubick's cube, and if that someone did one step once a second, the probability of a successful solution would be less than 1%. A Rubick's cube ​​can exist in 43 quantimillion positions. It would take 1.4 trillion years to try each without repeating it, and at some point the task would be solved. Would 13 billion years really be enough for the universe to randomly put people together and create the right environment for them? Let's think about the complexity of a person - 103 trillion cells, which every millisecond make sure that the body's systems work in harmony. How long would it take to accidentally create such a perfectly polished system? We are much more complicated
than a rubick's cube , and yet we exist.

I mean, really, there is a possibility of there being 10 dimensions in the universe, yet we can only experience 3, if we don't count time as the fourth dimension. Even dogs see the world differently from us, who's to say, that a more advanced civilization can experience more than what we can? Appearance can often be misleading, since our visual system is too limited to accurately process all the information received by our eyes. In rare cases, the brain misinterprets, forcing us to perceive something inaccurately, creating an optical illusion.

We cannot be sure that the universe exists beyond our mind and senses, and we cannot be as sure that our minds and senses interpret and perceive the outside world correctly, as it really is. However, for billions of years, people have adopted an order in which consciousness and matter are inseparable, just as macro and microcosm are defined, just as each of these concepts is defined in different times and cultures. We are in a reality where nothing can work freely, but man can. So man is more than a particle of nature, but at the same time he has taken in everything from nature.

Well crap .