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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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So it makes claims about a perspective that it can not possibly demonstrate.
I'm not knocking it, if that makes your life more meaningful then by all means, but I don't have a problem being insignificant. I don't think science sees us as separate from the universe, you hear stuff about how we share the same molecules that were once part of stars or the ocean or whatever, and that to me is amazing and spiritual (for lack of a better term).