One thing is not one thing.
A thought is:
a memory
and
a ball of electricity
and
an emotion.
Depending on how you look at it.
This principle goes for all of reality. One thing is multiple things at the same time.
In this comparison, science looks from one angle. Religion looks from another.
Theory of Everything
A real Theory of Everything already exists. The fact that we look at the same universe and draw completely different conclusions is unbelievable in itself.
I think the reason why people don’t want to have children anymore is because life is less fun than it used to be.
Doubting whether you want children or not is a very healthy reaction to that.
If life were infinitely fantastic, I couldn’t wait to make a baby and bring it into this world. But it isn’t. Modern life is extremely performance-driven: you constantly feel like you need to do stuff so you don’t fall behind. It’s honestly as if everybody has completely lost their mind. Making the same industrial and environmental mistakes for the thousandth time (we really don’t need AI). Watching the 20,000th war or genocide. It’s unbearable to look at.
Is that actually worse than it used to be? I think so. I work full-time. I work out every day. I have to clean. That is my life, basically. I fill the rest of the emotional holes by watching YouTube. My head is complete chaos, nowhere near equipped for modern-day life. Every new thing becomes another task. "Oh, just do this and that as well, you'll feel better." I don’t want to.
You started it with all the nonsense we didn’t need in the first place. Nobody needs AI. The environment doesn’t need AI. You don’t even need a dishwasher, you unbelievable ***. You can do that yourself.
I can't remember the last time I cried. Well, I constantly cry on the inside.
Back in the day, when I was chilling on a Friday night with a friend, debating science and religion and whatnot, that was life for me. We just did it with a childlike curiosity.