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Originally Posted by elphenor
To give an example
We can derive that we are tiny in comparison to the cosmos. An Unfathomable level of tiny. And we are around for an equally Unfathomable small amount of time.
From one perspective this must mean we are insignificant. But science does not tell us that we apply a human perspective of significance to the situation.
The Eastern way of looking at things would not understand such a perspective because they do not see humans as separate from the universe itself indeed from their perspective we are the universe experiencing itself
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But... science doesn't tell us we're separate from the universe. Quite the opposite, since being separate is more of a Western religious concept.