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"Would the universe be meaningful without humans?"
As soon as such a question is raised, people will fall into an inexplicable confusion.
Because human exploration of the universe is often influenced by anthropocentrism, and in the cosmology derived from it, a kind of "anthropocentric" thinking will be unconsciously shaped.
But human beings are not insignificant beings in the universe, and even in the short life of human beings, they can see the infinite vastness of the universe.
Therefore, this kind of thinking often makes people realize the greatness of the universe, but the universe is so absolute, what is human beings?
So is it true that the universe will become meaningless because of the absence of human beings?
So how do humans view this "anthropocentric" view of the universe?
And how does it affect people's minds?
1. The "anthropocentrist" view of the universe.
When people don't explore the universe deeply enough, they will think about the problems in the universe according to human cognition.
From a very early age, human beings have doubts about their own origins, so they have explored the origin of human beings, but there is no evidence, so people have imagined them based on their own experience and cognition.
So they "pieced together" the origin of man, thinking that man evolved from apes in the trees, but no one has been able to prove this.
But this idea spread among people, so people believed that human beings were the origin of all life, and so the idea of human beings as the center of the universe was born.
And because human beings can survive on the earth and live endlessly, they believe that the earth is the center of the universe.
Later, as more people explored astronomy, they learned that the earth is just a planet in the solar system, and the sun is just a star in the Milky Way.
As a result, people changed the earth from the center of the universe to the center of the Milky Way, so in human cognition, human beings are the center of the universe.
But such a view is undoubtedly a naïve manifestation of the cosmology, because as people explore the universe, they will realize that human beings are nothing more than a small existence in the universe.
But there are those who can't accept this reality and think that science is wrong about human beings, and religion is right about human beings.
At the same time, the absolute dominance of religion also affects the human cosmology, so everything in the universe is born for human beings.
Although people have done a lot of exploration of the universe, they still cannot prove the correctness of this view, so human cognition of the universe still mainly depends on human imagination.
In many cases, human imagination is obviously arrogant, but the views in some religions occupy an absolute place in the hearts of many people, which makes it difficult for human beings to get rid of this "anthropocentric" thinking, and this kind of thinking occupies an absolute position in human cognition.
2. Human beings are a product of the universe.
Human arrogance is undoubtedly the biggest mistake in the cognition of the universe, although human beings have been exploring the universe, but human beings are undoubtedly the smallest existence in the universe, and even the earth where human beings themselves are located is just a speck of dust in the universe.
But human beings have always been accustomed to imposing their thoughts on the universe, and how did human beings create the universe, and why did the universe create human beings.
But in fact, human beings are just a speck of dust in the universe, and this view is very clear, although human beings have been trying to go out and explore the universe, but no one has ever really traveled far away.
Therefore, the perception of the universe is still only human imagination, but people are still changing the universe according to their own will, which is undoubtedly a naïve idea, but it cannot be changed.
Because as long as human beings live, they will continue to move forward, and this has always been the driving force for human beings to keep moving forward.
It's as if human beings are constantly looking outward, but they don't know that human beings themselves are also a kind of continuous exploration, and human beings are constantly exploring the outside world at the same time, they are also exploring themselves.
There is no doubt that human beings are a great life in the universe, but no matter how great human beings are, it is the universe that makes human beings, not human beings who create the universe.
This arrogance of human beings is undoubtedly a naïve existence in the universe, but this arrogance of human beings is like an experiment in the universe.
This arrogance of human beings affects people's perception of the universe, but in human cognition, what can human beings be counted?
Although human beings are the greatest life on this planet on Earth, human beings are undoubtedly the smallest existence in the universe.
However, the universe is not without life in the universe, so human beings share the same fate with the universe, and the survival of human beings is closely related to the survival of the universe.
3. The survival of mankind and the survival of the universe.
Human beings depend on the universe for their existence, but the universe does not depend on human beings, so the survival of human beings depends only on themselves, not on the universe.
But human beings depend on the universe for their survival, which is like a pampered idea, because human beings seem to have had their thoughts as early as the birth of human beings, and human beings are like children who want to be raised by the universe, and without the universe, human beings seem to be unable to live.
But the universe wants people to go their own way, and keeps making people fall on their heels, but people are constantly changing their minds, trying to make the universe cater to human thoughts.
But in the end, it was found that human beings are so ignorant that no matter how powerful human beings are, they cannot change the laws of the universe, so long before the birth of human beings, the universe already existed, and human beings are just beings who depend on the universe and exist.
Human beings have never been able to change their minds, believing that the universe is for human beings and that the existence of the universe depends on human beings, but this idea is too naïve.
There is no consciousness in the universe, and the universe is not born for human beings, but human beings impose their own ideas on the universe.
In fact, human beings' understanding of the universe is only a small part of the universe, and the universe itself hides more mysteries, so human beings are just a kind of life in the universe, and their understanding of the universe is only superficial.
Hence the question, "Would the universe be meaningful without human beings?" It is not only an investigation of human beings, but also an investigation of oneself.
epilogue
Human thinking about the universe is also an experiment of human beings, and often human beings have more curiosity about the universe, which is not only an exploration of the universe, but also an exploration of themselves.
Human beings can raise this question, not because human beings can change the universe, but because human beings can explore themselves, and human beings can survive in the universe, which is also a kind of mercy of the universe.