Homogeneity and our Synthetic Reality

No, this isn't about gay rights.

After giving the meaning of this blog some deep thought (did I say that already?), I've decided to stick with my ...(oh yeah, I already said this...)

If you are reading this, then thank you for stopping by. If you, good reader, have an interest in philosophy, then please, help me create a little dialogue out of this otherwise stuffy monologue. I think a lot, and I have many ideas about things, but I've never actually studied philosophy (in depth at least), and to be honest, I don't think I ever will... However, I would love to have philosophical conversations with living people, so comment away...

Cosmologists have much to say about the overarching homogeneity of our universe. What does this mean? Basically, it's a dimension of thought problem. On one level, this means that the Andromeda spiral galaxy looks a lot like our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. It contains the same universal elements (matter and energy) and it appears bound by the same physical forces (gravity, nuclear and electromagnetism). This is just a simple way to think about homogeneity, though. On another level, homogeneity means that the Andromeda galaxy is another version of here. This is true for all universal elements: quarks, light, electrons, protons, molecules, stars, planets, etc. Einstein's theories of relativity revolutionized the way we think about space, time and motion. In a homogeneious universe, "out there" is simply another version of "here" and it is only the mind of the observer which defines the two.

I want to take this synthetic_universe blog down a path of "universal relativity"... if that makes sense. Who knows, maybe some Enlightenment guy came up with this term and defined it differently... I don't care, "universal relativity" describes exactly what I want it to.

As I look around my room, I see that everything in it is man made... including me. My house was the dream of an architect; my computer the cause of many headaches. Even the electricty in my neighborhood is man made; it wouldn't exist without human manipulation. At some point, and perhaps with the help of God, the animals of Earth rose from the dust and built their own environments using the power of their minds. About this time, we simultaneously built the tools of our own destruction, and we consistently threaten to use them on each other... but I digress.

Our world is synthetic. Our realities are dreams made real, and in a universe where ALL things exist simultaneously as matter and energy, it is the human mind which defines the meaning.

Welcome to the synthetic_universe.

Any thoughts?