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[Blade2.0]

It's a form of existential crisis that anyone with deep thoughts goes through at some point in thier lives. I remember being a teenager and staring up at the night sky feeling waves of dread about why I'm here and what is the point of "all this."

The good news is, there is no point. We make our own points and for me, the point is to try and give everything and everyone on this earth the best possible lives they can have. We are all in it together and together is how we should focus our efforts. Sadly not everyone thinks this way, but hopefully with time that can be accomplished.

 

[Blade2.0]

There is no before. In order for there to be a before, there needs to be time to make any concept of before make sense.

I've always thought of it like this. We are here because the universe must be observed in order to exist and in order to exist, the universe needs something to observe it. Intelligence was inevitable. I think of it how an atom can be both negative and positive at the same time and it only becomes one or the other when measured. The universe needs us to observe it, we need the universe to exist first in order to observe it. It was always going to exist. And we were always going to get to see it. Neither can be without the other. At least this is what I came up with while high off 10g of shrooms.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

My theory? Our universe is inside the cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The big bang was the start of the combustion cycle, the heat death of the universe will be followed by the exhaust cycle which will lead to the compression cycle and a new big bang.

 

[Rentahamster]

I've always thought of it like this. We are here because the universe must be observed in order to exist and in order to exist, the universe needs something to observe it. Intelligence was inevitable. I think of it how an atom can be both negative and positive at the same time and it only becomes one or the other when measured. The universe needs us to observe it, we need the universe to exist first in order to observe it. It was always going to exist. And we were always going to get to see it. Neither can be without the other. At least this is what I came up with while high off 10g of shrooms.

It's an interesting thought experiment that has shades of solipsism and simulation theory, but ultimately it's an unfalsifiable hypothesis. I can't really see a way in which one could empirically prove or disprove that case. In your case, if all the humans in the world died, would the universe also cease to exist since there's no one to observe it? Or would the universe spit out more intelligent people to keep itself going?