I've heard it said that intelligence is the universe trying to understand itself.

There is also a theory that we are nothing but a computer simulation. This one is making more and more sense all the time. It's like we are being trolled by an adolescent alien (like Q) who keeps throwing in random weird shit just to fuck with us.

I've asked them they're really not.

I think they might be onto something.

Artist renderings of galaxy clusters and the threads of matter connecting them look just like a stained section of brain tissue under a microscope.

Those who speak, don't know"

I love Lao Tzu. He may very well have been the world's first comedian.

Either way, there are certain things it's pointless to "debate" people about, or even bother opining on. I'm generally a science-minded skeptic myself, so I don't see the point in getting in a pissing match with others who consider themselves the same.

That said....


I hear what you're saying.

And please save the world from the likes of Deepak Chopra!

Anybody who talks about consciousness and quantum theory in the same sentence is living in sin.
(I believe those words are from Richard Feynman.)

Are you sure?

serves a useful purpose. Thus, to borrow a concept from the late Abbie Hoffman, Trump isn't actually an asshole; he is the stench found in the air passing through one.

the resemblance is uncanny

Seriously. If the Universe is everything, and the universe is orange, orange ceases to have any meaning, because there is nothing for it to be in contrast to. There is no not-orange.