My theory to everything

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Originally Posted by afghooey

But the beauty of it is that the universe doesn't just extend outwards, it extends inwards as well. Maybe the earth seems like a relative speck of dust when we look out into the vastness of space, but that is because we can see farther outwards than we can see inwards -- in the end, though, size is completely irrelevant. Each cell in our bodies is as significant as we are, and we are just as significant as each sprawling, wonderous galaxy that we've glimpsed in space.

It's a notion that is both incredibly humbling and equally aggrandizing all at once.

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I agree... but as most humans are much more proud than humble, i think we need more humbling than aggrandizing thoughts.

Even humble people are perverted by ego the same way as proud people, they look at others like "i am more humble than him, which makes me better" If you can wash the feet of your most hated enemy, then you are humble in my book.

^^^^ indeed... and this is one of the hardest weaknesses to overcome... cause more humble we become, more people are less humble than us, and easier to brag about our own humbleness... its like a snowball effect...

We are all just apart of the circle of life.

ok simba

Whoa, farout man. :p

Funny thing is, most of those cells aren't even human cells. If you count up all the cells in your body, bacteria cells outnumber human cells about 10 to 1. You need those bacteria to stay alive, and there's really no sense in which those bacteria aren't part of your body. Most of you isn't human.

Ok, I've been taking neuroscience classes for a while now and one of the biggest things I've gotten out of it is that cells are no more than little machines. I never really thought cells were "conscious" but after all this knowledge, I can disregard this superstitious thought. Cells as individuals are really no more than super complex in-out machines (except there are thousands of different ins/outs represented by different receptor types etc.). They do nothing more than the sum of all their proteins and those proteins' properties (which in the end are all created by and continued by DNA). This isn't taking into account the dynamic evolution of proteins and genetic drift etc. Now, this begs the question... what is consciousness and is it real? We are the sum of 10^11 neurons and the connections between them (a single neuron can have upwards of 8000 connections!). Most of that is hardware you're unaware of which is doing things to make your experience of the world seamless (i.e. vision, sensation, hearing, tasting, smelling, etc.). You could think of a single person as a next-level cell sorta, taking in information and putting it back out.

Can anyone tell I've been studying for finals? :D

So if every body is a universe to its cells, what happens when I sneeze?

^^ Black hole and time travel :P