ckld wrote:I meant death of reality as we know it. I do hope cosmology will work with psychology to unveil the consciousness we've added to all things. I do hope one day we see the cosmos raw.
Sorry again for the hyperbole
I highlighted the part that is my exact problem with most of these theories. In the end, it's humans that add consciousness to things. It's humans that project consciousness onto things and conclude that everything must be alive.
I occasionally entertain these thoughts, let them run and see what happens. It's a fun experiment to see what alternative answers to the big questions I can come up with. But in the end, I know these are all just thought experiments that is incapable of reaching conclusions. In order to draw conclusions you need evidence to support your claims.
And well, there's literally no evidence or support for the fact that matter is a giant inter-connected conscious being. Hell, for all we know the universe is the building block in another universe. Our universe is an atom in an incomprehensibly larger universe. And our atoms each contain their own universe. But I cannot prove these things with hard evidence so I do not claim these to be truths.
And that is exactly what people like Robert Lanza are doing: they claim they have the answer and in the process attempt to get rid of all science we've done over the past thousands of years.
And this is also why I like science so much: they don't claim to have the absolute truth. They say: I think this is how it is, and this is 47why I believe that could be true, could you have another look at it and verify my results?
The spice extends life.
The spice expands consciousness.
The spice is vital to space travel.