You ARE the center of the Universe.

"You're not the center of the universe."

Oh yes I am.

While this phrase is obviously a metaphor, it's also a fallacy. When I take a look at the sentence's literal meaning, I cannot help but laugh at its irony. An infinite universe can not contain a center. Now, this is from a third person perspective - one that assumes that we are all experiencing the same existence. So, that got me thinking. If reality is relative to each individual, as they wouldn't perceive existence without their OWN brain and each brain is unique, then everyone experiences a different reality. Our brains make it possible for us to exist and know we're existing. Since everyone sees the world differently, creating different perspectives of reality, it's almost as if everyone is existing in their own personal dimension, each clashing with those around them.

Now, if you're still following me, great. If not, let me try to simplify and make some sort of sense. Without your brain you couldn't perceive reality and therefore wouldn't exist. With your brain you create your reality. So, hypothetically, since everyone lives in first person, each person is the center of their own universe. Space is infinite in all directions. You are one point in space. Therefore you are a center. The center of your existence.

Originally Posted by Ciaran

Without your brain you couldn't perceive reality and therefore wouldn't exist.

Without your brain, you'd be dead.

If we assume that 'you' leave your body (cease consciousness, whatever) upon death, 'you' might no longer exist in the body, but your body - and brain - still exists. It may not be active but the matter itself is still there for a good while (we have cemeteries!)

If I'm on one side of a wall, looking at it, and you are on the other side, looking at it, we both see the wall but not each other, are we looking at two disconnected walls? Let's say that the wall is made of one continuous piece and is not even hollow in the center. Well?

Originally Posted by Ciaran

"You're not the center of the universe."

Oh yes I am.

While this phrase is obviously a metaphor, it's also a fallacy. When I take a look at the sentence's literal meaning, I cannot help but laugh at its irony. An infinite universe can not contain a center. Now, this is from a third person perspective - one that assumes that we are all experiencing the same existence. So, that got me thinking. If reality is relative to each individual, as they wouldn't perceive existence without their OWN brain and each brain is unique, then everyone experiences a different reality. Our brains make it possible for us to exist and know we're existing. Since everyone sees the world differently, creating different perspectives of reality, it's almost as if everyone is existing in their own personal dimension, each clashing with those around them.

Now, if you're still following me, great. If not, let me try to simplify and make some sort of sense. Without your brain you couldn't perceive reality and therefore wouldn't exist. With your brain you create your reality. So, hypothetically, since everyone lives in first person, each person is the center of their own universe. Space is infinite in all directions. You are one point in space. Therefore you are a center. The center of your existence.

Since there are multiple brains in the world then that would mean that there is no centre of the universe,

Why? Since each brain is unique by your own assertion, therefore every brain is the centre of the univerise, hence there are multiple centres of the universe - and since multiple centres of a singular object cannot exist therefore there is no Centre of the universe by your own assertion.

It's also all pretty irrelevant if there isn't even a dimensional area for there to be a center of.

Interesting post, gives one's soul some thought.

This thread stinks of someone trying to turn the concept of consciousness into something more than it actually is.
Your perception of reality and the universe is irrelevant to the universe's dynamics. Though you can inflate your importance if you must.

Very solipsistic thinking. And I don't think the phrase is meant to be taken literally.

Of course it isn't literal. The phrase was just the spark that inspired the thought. Though we exist together, everyone sees a different world. They process a different world. I believe everyone lives in their own unique, first-person world, making them the centers of their universes.

In my particular one, that isn't what happens. Maybe it's only in yours and nobody else's.