08-13-2021, 05:31 PM
(08-13-2021, 05:16 PM)Ming the Merciful Wrote: I still believe in the theory of the "Cosmic Joke". There are times when the God(s) are playing games with us, (seriously?), seriously! Incidences and coincidences. It almost appears as if we are attuned to a certain State of Consciousness, that, that something happens. Sometimes I can be out going somewhere and thinking of somebody, and then they suddenly appear. Precognition or coincidence? Then the same question arises, is everything preordained, or does it happen randomly. Orderliness and Randomness are the opposite side of the same coin. Heads you win, and tails you lose. I am waiting for the coin stand vertically, and how many myriads of lifetimes before it happens?
I think we are all connected to everything—some things more than others, and I don't mean that in a vague and unknowable way under the veil. I mean this: A cube can represent a thing or system in the 3D world. A tesseract, or hypercube, can represent the same thing in the 4D world. If you look at a tesseract, it appears to be 8 cubes all inside each other for lack of a better description. Notice the vertices and the lines between them.
Now imagine your life as the cube in 3D. A larger view of your totality is also in 4D, represented by the tesseract, and more dimensions (11 according to String Theory). So there are connections outside of 3D that we aren't aware of. You and the person you were thinking of may be easily seen to be connected in 4D, but in 3D, results of that connection appear as coincidences, when from the perspective of 4D it's totally ordinary.
This is an extrapolation I have made based in part from reading the thought experiment, Flatland.