/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>And "space" is everything else but "space", defined by everything else but what it might be. So what does that make it?
holy shit this is the same thing with brushes, entities and level in a fps map editor

Is true consciousness a form of insanity?

As we're basically the universe observing itself from infinitesimally small perspectives that make a large whole, surely the universe is fractured and the deviations are a resulting insanity? Dogs all are "programmed" (let's say) like dogs, cats all "programmed" like cats, plants are all "programmed" like plants.

But not humans. We can choose to deny our base programming that was programmed by the universe. As we can each discern a self of self through higher brain function (as can other mammals such as dolphins, and even avians such as ravens) by recognising themselves through a mirror, isn't the very sense of a fractured psyche, in itself, insanity?

Sometimes I think that that people are robot-like computer programs.

I have this odd philosophy that if I don't know someone very well, then then they are 'not human' in the idea that they don't feel or think the same way I do. Of course, when I become close to people such as family or strangers they 'become' exceptions to this rule, as if their base programming has been altered because I've interacted with them and the universe is doing this to remedy a change in my environment.

I say this because a lot of the time people seem to act as if they've been programmed. It sounds odd to say this, but I'm at University and a lot of people I meet seem to regularly follow a set pattern of pre-coded responses or behaviour patterns - such as an 'individuality code' where they act a certain way when I speak to them alone and a 'group code' where they completely change their behaviour when in a group which they seem to not be aware of, and seem to be ignorant of if I bring it up.

I sound and feel like a true autist just reading this back right now (even though this isn't the case), but I need to see if I'm alone or not.

FYI; I know there are some that are Human like me, but a lot are just too odd to not be.

Why can't any of the non-human animals on our planet communicate with us in a deep way?