r/StonerPhilosophy • u/scarfleet • 3d ago

What we are experiencing is this universe becoming conscious

That is what it feels like. This universe growing into a conscious being. In this incredibly strange organic way.

We are the universe, waking up for the first time and looking at its own body, and noticing what it is. We are all of this. Everything we see is us.

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u/HeyStray 3d ago

waking up for the first time

How do you know it's the first time and consciousness hasn't always been?

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u/scarfleet 3d ago edited 2d ago

I can't know if we specifically are the first. But I do think whoever was first, this is also what happened to them. We are experiencing what they did. So it's the same.

Don't ask me how I know, I do not have any more information than you. I am just recording what it feels like.

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u/kevin_goeshiking 2d ago

The universe is likely a conscious being. We, and everything and nothing are simply the manifestations of consciousness. The universe is awake. Humans are probably the most asleep thing that we can observe. I’d argue It is humans who are waking up to consciousness, not consciousness waking up to humanity.

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u/scarfleet 2d ago

If that is true I wish the rest of the universe would post on bluesky or something and tell us the way. If I had useful information that the universe would be interested in I would totally share it

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u/Betwixtderstars 3d ago

So what?

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u/ShellInTheGhost 3d ago

If you get confused,

listen to the music play

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u/Betwixtderstars 3d ago

Indeed you’ve proven my point. There’s no upshot to this idea.

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u/olliemusic 2d ago

If what you gain is more important than your ability to percieve, than you take for granted the very thing that gains. It's a phase that people tend to get stuck in. Once it unsticks you feel remarkably silly, but it doesn't matter because you experience everything more deeply. Gain and loss are trivial compared to perception.

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u/scarfleet 3d ago edited 2d ago

I am not sure what you want as an upshot. I am not asking anyone to do anything differently. Except, I guess, consider it.

I find it almost unbelievably profound, but of course you are free not to.