Cosmology

  • Where does reality come from?
    • i.e., the question of a “First Cause” or “Unmoved Mover”
  • Mythology
  • Theology
  • Scientific Cosmology

 

  • Miscellaneous thoughts:
    • I would also argue that in the modern world, Westworld or Rick & Morty are as relevant to the ways in which we “cosmologically orient” ourselves, if you want to put it that way, as anything else.
    • What’s kind of interesting about modern cosmology is that we used to have a shared way of explaining our place in the universe, primarily through religion, but these days we have so many competing ways of interpreting our own reality via the tools of myth or just straight philosophizing, whether it be in a church or on a podcast, that we’re almost drowning in options for, like, a sticker to put on our “belief system.”
    • This is arguably why you have people whose religion is Star Wars or people like me, who take Firefly to be as important a contribution to the understanding of the human condition as the Bible. Perhaps not in impact, but at lease in compellingness – although this, of course, is subjective, and it isn’t fair to compare given the immense distance in time between the two.
    • The point is, we’re at a point in time where Cosmology couldn’t be more relevant but also couldn’t be less valued, in many ways. This is what Carl Jung indicated in his book Modern Man in Search of Soul, and it’s evidenced in all sorts of places in pop culture.