Monster Energy

Existence is weird. One minute you’re asking what the universe is, the next minute you’re just trying to find coffee

But numbers are part of a system we defined. Reality isn’t. So the analogy only goes so far.

Right, but there’s a small tension there. If infinity is in principle unknowable, then saying that reality is infinite already sounds like a claim to knowledge about it. We’re describing the very thing we’re saying can’t be described. It’s kind of like saying no one can know how deep the ocean is, and then turning around and saying it’s infinitely deep.

When you say it’s a Mystery, do you mean it’s in principle unknowable, or just beyond our current ways of explaining? And if reality is fundamentally a Mystery, how do you distinguish that from simply not having an explanation yet?

I’m not sure that gets us any closer to an explanation

But saying it’s too complex for the human mind feels less like an explanation and more like where explanation stops.

I’ll take a look at your draft. The idea that patterns emerge from underlying fields or states is pretty close to what I was trying to point at.

Interesting analogy. But that really just explains why certain things survive, not why the patterns exist in the first place. The puddle survives because the hole fits it. That still doesn’t explain why the hole has that shape to begin with.

Yes, I think that’s fair. My title was probably too blunt. I agree it may ultimately be a mystery.

The structure of experience is still left unexplained.

I’m not saying resonance or vibration would exist outside of infinity. My point is more modest than that. Even if everything is ultimately infinite consciousness, that still leaves open the question of how experience becomes structured rather than chaotic. Resonance could simply be one way to describe how patterns of experience stabilize within that infinity.

By patterns I mean recurring structures in experience. For example how certain states of mind tend to bring about similar environments, reactions, and relationships. By resonance I mean that similar states reinforce each other, like frequencies syncing. If consciousness has different states, then it’s plausible that experience organizes around those states rather than appearing completely random.

But that still leaves the question open. If the stability of reality comes from the stability of the mind, then what determines the structure of that mind in the first place? My point was that resonance could be one way to explain why certain patterns in experience consistently align and repeat.

Yes, that’s what I meant.

It’s a beautiful metaphor. I’m just not sure it explains much beyond the poetry of it.

Fair point.

@Leo Gura Leo, come on. It’s actually more likely he did the 40-day water fast than not. The guy literally livestreamed most of it, showed the weight loss, and documented the whole thing the entire time. A fast that long is extreme, sure, but it’s not impossible; people have done it before, especially if they take electrolytes. So unless he was secretly running some Oscar-level performance the whole time, odds are he actually did it.

If it were that obvious what’s real and what’s a mental construction, humans probably wouldn’t spend centuries debating it.

Experiences are real, but the explanations people build around them aren’t always.

That’s what every new belief system tends to say about the ones before it.

Every time humans try to reinvent religion it eventually becomes another belief system people start defending like the previous one.

I’m just not sure humans can fully step outside being human. Awareness of our conditioning might be as close as we get. Humans trying to ‘transcend being human’ usually just end up inventing another story about themselves.

Possibly. But whenever someone says they’ve found the ‘true path,’ I start wondering if we’re drifting from philosophy into theology.

Exactly. It feels like death to the ego, but it’s really just the story changing.

I think you’re describing something real about self-image and conditioning. I’m just not convinced there’s a clean escape from it. Awareness seems more realistic than total liberation.