I have considered myself an atheist since high school but I feel like I have been forming my own beliefs about how the universe works and I’m curious about if there are others who think like me.
I have started thinking about free will a lot and how I don’t believe we actually have it (depending on what you want to define free will as.) This has caused me to think about how in reality we are not much different than a rock. We have just as much agency in our decisions as a rock does when it is pushed down a river. I’ve thought about our perspectives and why we see life like we do. What if we are just appendages of some greater energy based being kind of like cells are a part of us. We have cells in our body that are a part of us and perform tasks, but we cannot really manipulate them freely. What if life is like that but the other way around. Energy cannot be created or destroyed and it powers everything. The neurons in your brain are powered by energy it gets from glucose. I feel like everything sort of works like a puppet to this greater energy and when we die maybe we just realize we are a part of it. It feels like I have almost stumbled on my own relgion, but I am willing to accept that it probably isnt really like this and I am not intellegent enough to truly understand how everything works. Its just what I like to believe
You only think that rock has no agency but the truth is that it—long ago—decided that it would be relocated by you, because it figured that was long enough in that location.
When we invented silicon transistors, did we really teach the rocks to think or were they thinking—at the quantum level—all along? 🤔
If everything is predestined—based on how an explosive event occurred a long, long time ago, then maybe our existence is like skipping a rock on a pond and seeing how many little hops it gets before it falls in.
Was that rock thrown or was it just another repetition of an infinite loop that has no beginning and no end?
Doesn’t matter. Have some fun while we’re on the back of this rock that’s progressively using biological chemical reactions to convert itself into lots more fun little thinking rocks.