Brainsplode

[theiform]

So last night I was thinking, and I kind of realized that numbers have no meaning unless in relation to each other, and that they're also man-made concepts, and that they are measuring ratios, and it gave me that punch in the gut that I haven't gotten since I figured out that words are actually meaningless and that time is also a man-made concept

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[theiform]

Pff, that's just silly. So what, blind people are just imagining everything? 'Oh you can't see colour so you aren't actually living life.'
Colour as an illusion was pretty easy for me to grasp, same with the whole 'particles are always moving so everything solid is actually mostly empty space' thing.
Time is a pretty cool thing to think about, even if it sends me for a loop sometimes. :)

[theiform]

I've just always taken numbers as concrete things that are an unexplainable part of the universe at its base, like atoms or something. (Mind you that might be a bad comparison because I know jack shit about science.) And then I started thinking about how 'one' is actually just an image we have of a whole, and 'two' is only relevant as a multiple of one, and decimals are only relevant as fractions of one, and how in a universe where everything was one complete, unified entity there would be no use for numbers because there are no multiples of one, no differentiating marks or concepts or separations and no way of possibly dividing it into separate pieces, then there would be no need for numbers. But then I thought that if there is one, is there not by definition fractions of one, meaning decimals? And what if the universe was just one of those fractions and therefor what was formerly a decimal is now one, but that is impossible because if something is 'one' then there are ways to break it down into pieces, even just conceptually. And

[mmmrorschach]

"since I figured out that words are actually meaningless" Oh gosh, please don't tell me that while I'm reading something. Now I'm not sure how I'm extracting information from a sequential arrangement of twenty-six unique symbols, and, more importantly, is it the right information? If this reply makes any sense, it is only through sheer luck.

If you ever make a post praising the virtues of leaving ramen noodles in a thermos for weeks at a time, I'll know that the noodles have become sentient and have taken over the house. But I won't notify the authorities because I always root for the underdog.

[theiform]

Exactly my point, good sir, exactly my point.

...My innocent science experiment suddenly has a lot more consequences than I'd originally forseen.