Theory

I don’t believe when people try and simplify things, and explain things in theories and mathematics, such as the universe and chemistry, that they are “simplifying” anything. All they accomplish is finding a consistent, a common element shared within those systems being observed. By being able to explain the universe in one theory, even if it were a thousand page book, does not simplify the universe itself. It does not take away, or even dumb down blackholes, supernovas, energy and gravity. All it does is create a personification that we know and understand the vastly complex workings of our reality. And that knowledge, to say we understand, is what humans strive for in their lives. To say, “yes, I understand why, how, and what.” But these all encompassing theories that are supposed to explain everything just don’t do their jobs. You can’t explain everything. You can’t explain or theorize the barrier between mechanical processes like chemicals and electricity in your brain, and the spark of elusive substance that makes your life and who you are. Because, in reality, all you are is a lump of tissue, muscle, electricity and chemicals… a machine. Even your mind is nothing more than a heap of lifeless computer. But somewhere inside that inanimate robot is life. When you look at it, what is life? Is it chemicals and atoms moving and interacting? That isn’t life. That is chemicals and atoms moving and interacting.

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