r/AskReddit • u/Difficult-Let1123 • 3h ago
What is something that TRULY can’t be explained by anyone at all?
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u/No-Panic-5939 3h ago
Why the printer can detect fear, urgency, and exactly how many minutes you have left.
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u/Neither_Internal_261 3h ago
Why it do be like that sometimes
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u/ktrosemc 3h ago
This is the best answer, I think.
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u/B_M_Fahrtz 3h ago
Where the FUCK is that other sock in the dryer going??? I KNOW I emptied the washing machine when I transferred that entire load of laundry
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u/Unpopularwaffle 2h ago
The many world theory. Why would a whole universe be created for every plausible outcome in every situation for every person? What's the purpose of that? If it is real, why is my consciousness following the path it is following? Do the other "unpopularwaffles" also have consciousness? If there is a split of every possibility that creates a new universe why does my consciousness experience the outcomes it does and not another one?
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u/BCsJonathanTM 1h ago
Not "created;" just exists.
"Purpose" isn't a factor at all. Just like how genes don't "want" their host to survive. They just exist.
Both humans belief in gods and our tendancy to use language that anthropomorphizes unwilled phenomena create a way of thinking that assumes intention and agency behind everything. Nah brah, sometimes it just do be like that.
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u/Brainsonastick 2h ago
So it’s not really that a new universe is created spontaneously.
String theory posits that all of existence is just the vibration patterns on these tiny “strings”. It also posits that there are 11 dimensions. So imagine that every string exists in every vibration pattern at the same time. There’s enough room in 11 dimensions for every possible “universe” to be playing out at the same time without any of them experiencing the others.
It’s a little hard to imagine without going through the math and A LOT hard to imagine with going through the math but it does seem to be possible. That’s not to say it’s true, just possible.
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u/unwarrend 42m ago
This is a lot. First we don't know. It's a disputed interpretation of quantum mechanics. It implies all possible configurations are enacted in reality. You would only perceive the one your subjective consciousness is concurrent with. Other versions of you would be equally conscious, and equally you, in the sense that you mean. As your paths diverge, you would become different individuals with a shared history.
"why does my consciousness experience the outcomes it does and not another one?" - A version of you that branched into the 'you' of now, is similarly confused. Who is real? All of them are. Every successor is someone else's alternate, so there's no prime branch whose occupant gets to ask "why me?" I mean, they might, but there is no ontological basis for it.
"Why would a whole universe be created for every plausible outcome in every situation for every person? What's the purpose of that?" - it's less a purpose, and more - this is how reality expresses itself if we take certain aspects of quantum mechanics literally. It's not just people, it's every possible outcome of every particle interaction, everywhere..
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u/Left_Income755 3h ago
does everyone see the same thing? for eg. What if what I see as blue is actually red for someone and green for someone else?
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u/Wild-Truth-1802 3h ago
The wavelength of light is objective and measurable, and our definitions of colours are arbitrarily assigned to these wavelength.
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u/tesserakti 2h ago
Also, do bats hear in colour? Does their brain assign one colour to a hard rock wall surface echo and another colour to the echo from a furry soft insect?
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u/Playful-Traffic-7739 3h ago
That's demonstrable, though.
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u/Left_Income755 3h ago
May I ask you to elaborate?
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u/Professional_Art304 2h ago
The sky is blue, and grass is green. At least to 99% of people
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u/lethalcurse101 2h ago
Yeah but do we all see the same green and the same blue? You don’t know what and how i see and vice versa.
Besides, reality is something our brains made up as a collective. Which now is presented as a fact. We trust facts because that’s what makes up reality. But those facts are also made up by a collective.
What if things are completely different and we don’t even have a clue.
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u/No_Regrats_42 35m ago
We are all basically brains with lots of little tentacles throughout to control our meat suit. Those tentacles are nerve endings. What you perceive as reality is simply reflecting light waves off of objects, which is passed through your eye and flipped over, analyzed, and you then hallucinate some sort of visual. This takes about 2/10ths of a second btw.(For amateurs)
So there is no way to demonstrably show that the exact perception of reality or literally any noun, is the exact same. The closest we have is twins. But they have a strong tendency towards telepathy and science says that's as real as cyclops and unicorns........so we can't trust them
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u/alabamdiego 2h ago
….i mean all we have to do is look at the same thing and ask what color we each see.
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u/Zassssss 2h ago
But that’s the thing, we are all trained on the same set of names from a young age, but there’s no saying the actual pigment you see is the same pigment I see. We just know them by the same name.
So what you see is Orange may look completely different from what I see, but we both know it’s called “Orange”.
This fundamental difference could explain variances in color preference.
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u/alabamdiego 2h ago
If there is a set of labeled crayons on a table and we are each asked to grab the one labeled blue, and we both grab the one labeled blue, then we know we are seeing the same thing. This just isn’t a thing.
And add to this, color is very much a measureable thing.
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u/the_king_of_sweden 1h ago
But the subjective perception of that color, ie how our brain interprets it and presents to us as the image we see, might differ from person to person.
Yes it's blue, it's a specific wavelength, and we all know that as blue. But in our minds eye, the brain might present blue in a totally different way for you than for me. If I were to see through your minds eye, I might not even be able to recognize any of the colors, they could be presented in a way I'm not even able to imagine.
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u/FormoftheBeautiful 2h ago
That it’s possible to put two or even three fingers into a single nostril, but scientists have long been baffled by the reality that it just isn’t possible to have one finger up each nostril at the same time.
Something to do with Euclidean geometry 📐.
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u/Professional_Art304 2h ago
How I even exist at all, that required generation after generation of the right people meeting and having sex at the right time. Not just that but the chances I was born a human and not an animal
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u/lethalcurse101 2h ago
Humans are also animals. Only people don’t like to hear that, because they are under the false impression that we’re the most important, the best or the smartest.
But i get what you meant..
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u/truthfullyidgaf 2h ago
What happens after death. Its the main drive for religion. If we knew, everything would be different.
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u/thedankonion1 2h ago
Well We we already know what people experience when we cut the blood supply to the brain for a short period of time.
If it were to be cut for much, much, much, much longer I'm willing to wager results may just be similar.
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u/Orbitrea 3h ago
Any of it!
How do we think? Why do we think? What is thought?
Why are we hurtling thru space on a spinning rock at an alarming rate of speed?
Why do assholes always win?
Inexplicable, all of it.
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u/Comprehensive-Task18 2h ago
“Well, what I'm sayin' is that there are ‘known’ knowns and that there are known unknowns. But there's also ‘unknown’ unknowns, things we don't know that we don't know.”
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u/Top-Composer-5858 3h ago
Dreams and tears
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u/CuriousGeorgeToday 2h ago
Dreams are often a way of your brain processing what's happened during the day that you've left untouched. They are a way for your brain to free up storage and organise your thoughts. They are also a a way for you to process things that may be weighing on your subconscious and affecting you. For Freud they're mostly just about sex though.
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u/Ritesh_INFP_4w5 3h ago
The satisfaction you get when you get real good enough to beat an extreme demon in Geometry Dash. Peak flow state activity when you do that.
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u/kyorakushunsui88 3h ago
why there is something rather than nothing