Some thoughts on consciousness, the meaning of life, and the Fermi Paradox

It has been theorized that our brains may act as receivers, rather than creators, of consciousness. Images of the universe have shown a surprising similarity to our brain structure, and I believe that this is because the universe itself is a collective consciousness.

This, I speculate, is what we refer to as God. This awesome being, with infinite knowledge and power, brought everything into creation. We are all one, because we are all a part of the collective. To harm another is to harm oneself, because we are all one.

Many people have posed the question: why would a benevolent God allow suffering? If the collective consciousness, or God, is to attain ultimate knowledge, then it must experience itself in every way possible. It must know first-hand the experience of joy, of beauty, of love - but also of pain, of desolation, of anguish. Our lives, no matter how hard, or how meaningless they may seem at times, are of huge importance - because without each nuance, each unique experience, the collective consciousness could not be.

This theory extends beyond humanity. To gain a complete understanding of the universe and therefore ourselves, every possibility must exist. My understanding is that everything exists simultaneously in spacetime, but we are given a narrow perspective of reality, a bubble so to speak, to allow us to fully immerse ourselves in this realm.

If this concept holds true, then every type of life, both imaginable and unimaginable, is out there. Interdimensional, interplanetary, everything. Unfortunately, I also feel that this theory provides a new answer to the Fermi Paradox: that the reason we have not encountered other life forms may be that the limitations of our current reality simply do not allow it. If this theory holds true then the concept of the Matrix, or our reality being some kind of simulation, is accurate - just not in the way that we might think. We are in some kind of artificial reality, because particles do not truly exist, only waves.

Submitted January 23, 2021 at 10:02PM by 1CollectiveConscious https://ift.tt/2Mh3n7x