The Universe: In our minds

[Nonsensical]

A neat thought came to me. It's just a thought, completely irrational, and imaginative, but I think this would be an interested open-ended topic.

What if you looked into someone's eyes and saw another universe? That is the question that my sister just asked me nearly 5 minutes ago that stemmed this outburst of radical and imaginative thought.

It got me to thinking: What if our universe was the mind of one being? residing past the eyes of a superior force. A so called God? I don't want this to be a religious discussion, by any means. What if all that is is just one huge giant facet of thought? A stream of mind in which we are living.

And then..it brought me to the question: What if inside each of our minds/souls resided universes, too. All of our thoughts consciously brewing in one huge hurricane of being. A universe that could be very similar or very different from our own.

Very intriguing.

Any open ended thoughts?

But if you find this to complete BS, then please don't waste your time posting.

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Every person does have something of a universe lurking behind their eyes. But usually the talented artists are the ones who are best at sharing this universe with others.

Sometimes we forget people are three dimensional. We are much more than just a description of our type. On the inside is an entire universe.

 

[Owl]

OP

See Hinduism and the incommunicability of content.

 

[Quinlan]

Everyone sees their own universe, the concept of colour blindness astounds me.

 

[Oaky]

The universe is exactly how you perceive it. We perceive it by our mind through our senses. That is why beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I've always thought that the colour you would see in your eyes could be different in another persons eyes. The feeling of something would be different to you then if someone else were feeling it. Same for smell, taste and hearing. I could here beautiful music and someone else would think it's really bad. Why? Because they perceive it differently than the way I would. Or so I think.

 

[Aerithria]

I've always thought that as the concept of people liking different things than I do is absolutely absurd (to me), it's quite possible that in reality, people are all exactly the same, but the way we personally define it changes everything. Something is defined a certain way because a group of people say it's so, so a group of people could be pointing to something and declare its colour green, even though in reality what the three people in the group may be looking at is red, orange, and blue to them. So perhaps everybody has the same favourite colour, but it's just defined differently for them. There is no way of determining whether we are all looking at the same thing when we look at something. Which means that there's no way of determining anything.

 

[Quinlan]

There is no way of determining whether we are all looking at the same thing when we look at something. Which means that there's no way of determining anything.

Uh oh, existential crisis impending in 3, 2 , 1...

 

[Aerithria]

Uh oh, existential crisis impending in 3, 2 , 1...

Heh, didn't quite mean it like that, though I see your point.

 

[INTJ123]

Everyone sees their own universe, the concept of colour blindness astounds me.

There is no such thing as being completely color blind, as in seeing black and white. I'm color blind so I know this, I actually see colors quite vividly but the blindness they mean is that we see less variety of color, a narrow spectrum of colors if you will. I often get confused between brownish and greenish colors, or can't tell a big difference between violet and dark blue.

 

[antireconciler]

Insofar as we can speak of a universe in your mind, that universe must be different from the real McCoy. The first necessarily refers to something beyond itself. The second necessarily cannot. But because the first refers to the "greater" universe of necessity in order to be what it is, using the term, "universe", to represent the finite mind begins to betray its etymological grounding.

There are many aspects to what you've said, and it is a fuzzy subject to me. If you articulate your ideas into something more structured, I bet we would both benefit.

 

[Prototype]

This?...http://connect.krishna.com/node/1774

 

[Nyx]

This has been thought about before. It is not so irrational...

Hermetic axioms are the basis for many schools of spiritual thought...

Apollonius.Net - The Mental Universe

THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES

The first is "The ALL is Mind, The UNIVERSE is Mental."

See Hinduism and the incommunicability of content.

Yep, that too.

 

[iamathousandapples]

There are universes everywhere. Imagine this: The entire universe, now focus it on the galaxy, now the solar system, now the planet, and so on till you get to your eye, from the eye there are molecules, which can be broken down into elements, which can be broken down into protons, neutrons, and electrons, which can be broken down into quarks, etc, etc. So basically, Infinite is in everywhere. There are an infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1.

Going from there and reversing it, this universe could be a part of a giant quark of a giant atom. But who knows, and what use would come from knowing that all this universe is is a fragment of a fragment of an atom?

 

[Katsuni]

Considering the depth and consistancy of concepts like physics, yet the absurdity of free will and the chaos of spontainity, these opposing factors are too consistant to make sense as such.

If it is a mind, it's an abnormally complex and in depth imagination, and it's definately not dreaming because it's too mundane for that.

Of course, if it were just 'horton hears a ho' well... maybe.

But if it's someone else's mind? Well all I can state is that if that's the case, they are BORING AS HELL. Yeu hear me brain thinky person!? YEU ARE BORING! That's right, yeu just got called out by yeur own mind, meaning yeu're totally dealing with split personalities and one of them thinks yeu're a boring tard, so go think up something way more awesome! And dream me up a sammich, I'm hungry.

 

[Prototype]

...Going from there and reversing it, this universe could be a part of a giant quark of a giant atom. But who knows, and what use would come from knowing that all this universe is is a fragment of a fragment of an atom?

If-that-were-the-case-it-would-make-a-lot-of-sense!