/lit/ - Literature

>>16441890
I believe that there is a 'real' world that exists. There's an independent nature of causes and events that exists in the real world. If you step in front of a truck, you get hit and die. This is ultimately why science has produced so many technologies which actually work and have an effect upon us and the universe, because we can see how the universe actually operates and its physical laws and then exploit them in order to produce new things. Reality itself is some kind of power matrix, where causes and events interact in somewhat predictable ways. Whether there is some transcendent being like a God, I don't know. It's possible. I lean towards a panpsychic vision of consciousness, that consciousness emerges from information systems and that there might be a "world soul" of all integrated conscious properties. Christians have some good arguments, but ultimately I can't get behind the idea that Christ literally came back from the dead. I can't make that leap of faith. Although I'm kind of open to other quasi-supernatural things like UFOs and ghosts, but ultimately I don't have enough evidence (besides a personal experience with a ghost and the USS Nimitz videos of UFOs). Philosophically I lean towards Shopenhauer recently, in that I think he is right that life is ultimately full of suffering and we don't get what we want. The hedonic treadmill appears to be real anecdotally. As to politics and morality my beliefs are a lot more fuzzy. I think there are multiple political systems that work to some degree or another. Communism/fascism/totalitarianism/theocracies all work somewhat to organize individuals and ensure the survival of a civilization. I lean towards some social democracy right now, but I think people can survive under a wide variety of systems, and all of them have tradeoffs (like neoliberalism moves jobs overseas and atomizes individuals). Basically, I think there is objective truth to the world, but probably no ideal way to organize civilization.