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If the universe were a person...
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Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Obsessed with self-examination.
I don't think so. Confused on the topic, but trying to figure it out.
dust1n
Zindīq
We would be parasites.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
By what standard are we not part of the universe?
Just_me_Mike
Well-Known Member
It would be like all life combined, into one big self examining heap of splender.
Then it would create me, and be awed by my greatness
dust1n
Zindīq
Good point. However we regard natural E. Coli in our systems as part of us.
Than again.. we can't be strictly parasites, because we gain from existence (I guess) which is only possible thanks to the universe.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
dust1n
Zindīq
It was a good point; it forced to reconsider - and I agree.
Oh, sorry; I was just saying we couldn't be 'parasites', because the exchange is mutual. We feed off the universe as much as it feeds off us.
sonofskeptish
It is what it is
Yup, completely indifferent.
This immediately reminded me of "The Wind in the Door" by Madeleine L'Engle. Meg and Co. have to go into her sick brother's mitochondria to convince the farandola-- sentient beings-- to mature. The farandola really have no concept of "Charles Wallace"-- their universe. I would imagine we would be in a similar predictament if our universe was in fact a person. Nothing about our surroundings would really tell us about the personality of our person.
Why should our person be amoral? Are we amoral because our stomach acid sometimes destroys a bacterium that finds itself in there?
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Both and neither.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
If the universe was a person they'd be very confused seeing that there would be gigantic sections of itself that would have no communication between each other because of the limit of the speed of light. It would be like your left hand and right foot never being able to communicate with each other, or, in fact, never even knowing that the other existed.
I suppose this would translate personality-wise that the universe would have to really be a society of personalities, most of whom don't even know the others exist.
Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
A decaying police officer...?
Eliot Wild
Irreverent Agnostic Jerk
If the Universe were a person, it would be in need of a strict diet . . . as it is expanding at the rate of about 70 km per second, according to the Hubble Constant.
As for its personality, I would guess the Universe to be a bit hard to get along with, sort of bi-polar. Sometimes it is warm, inviting and comfortable, and other times it is harsh, noxious and downright cruel. As far as humans like ourselves are concerned, the Universe is pretty much uninviting and uninhabitable at most times. As a matter of fact, our little bitty corner of the Universe called "Earth" is really the only part of the Universe where humans can live without assistance of hardware, at least that we've found so far.
But ultimately, the Universe is like an old, fat, irritable grandmother who likes to rattle on and on, sometimes telling stories of awesome wonder and other times just blathering about uninteresting crap . . . Either way, each and everyone of us should appreciate and respect her for the obvious fact that we would not be here today were it not for her.
As for its personality, I would guess the Universe to be a bit hard to get along with, sort of bi-polar. Sometimes it is warm, inviting and comfortable, and other times it is harsh, noxious and downright cruel. As far as humans like ourselves are concerned, the Universe is pretty much uninviting and uninhabitable at most times. As a matter of fact, our little bitty corner of the Universe called "Earth" is really the only part of the Universe where humans can live without assistance of hardware, at least that we've found so far.
But ultimately, the Universe is like an old, fat, irritable grandmother who likes to rattle on and on, sometimes telling stories of awesome wonder and other times just blathering about uninteresting crap . . . Either way, each and everyone of us should appreciate and respect her for the obvious fact that we would not be here today were it not for her.
Maybe it's an infant person. They grow a lot.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
It would definitely explain the puddles of puke everywhere and the persistent smell of crap.