I see this line tossed around a lot and to me there just doesn’t seem to be evidence that we are nothing but a body. Yet does the law of conservation of matter factor into this?
No. When I pass gas, no stars are formed.
I’m not. Are you?
Yeah. I’m a really terrific and great guy.
Hey, is that really a piece of fairy cake?’
Well I just heard it used a lot and wondered if they meant it literally or figuratively. Or if it is true.
They said that before you there was the universe, but the atoms that make up my body didn’t always exist (the Big Bang was mostly hydrogen and helium).
Fuck if I know.
I am, but you’re not. There can be only one.
Nah, haven’t you ever heard of the multiverse?
I’m wondering–did you get any splinters in your fingers ripping through the bottom of the barrel to reach this question?
Yes.
Well, technically, no. The pronoun “you” in English is used for both second-person singular and second-person plural, but there’s no real established use of “you” as second-person superplural. The sense in which my answer to “who are you” is “the universe” is at the superplural level, the all-encompassing sense of self.
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob
No. You are, physically, an infinitisimally small speck in the universe.
That made no sense to me at all.
Are you really looking for sensible answers to a nonsensical question?
How do you know it’s nonsense?
Then you’re in the same boat as most of us in one of your threads.
The universe is an area of space at least tens of billions of light-years across populated by many trillions of trillions of stars and probably a similar number of planets. If you think that there is a chance that you are an area of space at least tens of billions of light-years across populated by many trillions of trillions of stars and probably a similar number of planets then your mind is further gone than it already seemed.
I’m not the universe. I’m the *center *of the universe.
Everywhere else, that’s where I keep my stuff.
This is brilliant.
Is it? Because it makes no sense.
AS for the rest, my guess is that it’s looking at the universe as some kind of super organism. Or not. It’s usually followed by there being no birth or death, that what looks like birth is just rearranging matter and that there is nothing new it’s all just one thing.