lol! That was a great point! All this marvelous and grandiose creation giving birth to... me? Not that impressive! As an agnostic, I don't 'know' anything. Believing must be nice and comforting, and this is why people believe, I'm sure. Personally, my gut feeling is that our reality WAS created, by someone, or some ones, or a supercomputer... and this explains why, as Einstein said, the universe can be understood. The notion of an all-knowing, all-powerful, benevolent Being doing all this work so that I or Hitler could exist is a bit difficult to swallow. I think the 'creator(s)' is(are) mostly amusing himself(themselves), and this points me to a sim. A rather cruel one at that. The 'word' of God is probably some teenage genius from another dimension's 'program'.   See 4 other replies

What's mindblowing to me is that this is not just some recent and interesting discovery. The fact that the parts contain the whole and vice versa has always been 'known' to man and can be found in ancient oral traditions and sacred texts. It comes down to 'the world is one' concept echoed by the Big Bang theory. Science doesn't appear to teach us things we don't know, but to confirm and validate them, then. If the whole universe is indeed 'contained' in every infinitesimal part of our being, it would follow that we already know 'everything' and use modern investigative tools to rediscover that knowledge. If you haven't yet, look up holographic models of the universe and prepare for more amazing confirmation of this. If your mind hasn't exploded, move on then to the Simulation Argument. That Indian Maya thing (the world is an illusion) will take on a whole other dimension.
Was the universe created by supercomputers, its fractal nature betraying infinite numbers of iterations generating diversity and complexity? Are time and space illusions and the universe a virtual reality with no actual materiality inhabited by one mind jacked into the simulation for its own entertainment? Are you, I, and every other life form avatars for 'players', or one player, outside our reality, therefore explaining that vague feeling of connection most of us have?
Amazing and awesome doesn't start to describe what 'it' is...   See 1 other reply