Philosophy is an act, a practice, not an academic study. If philosophy to you is to read and talk about what has been philosophized about before, or read or talk about what others have said about what has been philosophized before, then you're watching philosophy, not doing philosophy.

What I like the most is how you're allowed to sidestep science and just not believe in quantum physics or special relativity (or any other science that has such high status that they pretty much are facts in our society). That you're always allowed to come up with your own stuff and start talking about what will happen at the end of the universe.

Discovering philosophy is discovering that you can create your own science, your own knowledge, your own worldview.

Power laws and the Pareti principle imply stuff like "20% of the causes stand behind 80% of the effects", but what people miss is that this not only means "focus on the small part that actually makes a difference", but also that the other 20% are the small but many random creative deviations that together counteract the "monopoly" of the most powerful 20%.

Without those many small random deviations we wouldn't have a more interesting world than a small single dense point, everything centered, like at the big bang. The 20% of your ideas that make 80% of the difference, originally came from the other 80% of your ideas that together don't make a big difference, but sometimes have one small idea that revolutionizes and takes over the previous power center.

There's a limit to how big a star can be and still maintain itself, self goes for cities and living organisms. Big companies get tired, slow and bureaucratic. The power center naturally loses its power, and so do your most well-proven ideas if you don't embrace change.

As long as we have both big and small companies together in the same system, it mirrors the universe we live in. We wouldn't want a world with everything centered at one point, and we wouldn't want an evenly spaced out world either. We want variation, and we want a world where one big power center can do their thing in their way and the smaller outskirt can do what they do best.

Make your life imitate the structure of the universe, and it will start working with the universe instead of against it.

The question is when something becomes an object, in an absolute sense. Or is it a gliding scale, based on the complexity, material, history and distinguishability of it?

Greek philosopher Empedocles had a theory where ”love and strife” were two forces that made things stick together or broke things, making the universe start from a dense point and end in complete separation, then reverse it. Not unsimilar to the current big bang/heat death theories and how the forces seem to work in a way where we right now live to see wide variation and matter coming together to form objects.

Empedocles also claimed that we currently live in a time where the forces love and strife both are active which gives the variation in the world.

Maybe we should follow what Henry Lindner wrote in 1990 and see evolution as not only biological but ”the inherent process of Cosmic self-development from the formation of the first particles to humankind’s development of language and, eventually, philosophy” and see if it could explain the nature of complexity and objects? (https://henrylindner.net/Writings/Hierarchical.html)

One part of science is measurements and proofs and stuff, but another important part is following your pure intuition and seeing where it takes you, and right now I can only come up with this: There are 5 forces - gravity, electromagnetism, the 2 nuclear forces, and life.

Life being the force that creates more complex objects than planets, stars and galaxies (yes, they are BIG but they are not complex!).

And life seems to be a force that operates not only in space but also in TIME (I’m practically stealing material from Sara Imari Walker here).

The electromagnetic force makes molecules stay as they are not dissolve into their building blocks. Gravity makes planets stay as they are and not dissolve. Life lets humans, animals and all the inventions & things we create stay as they are and not dissolve.

It looks like we use the electromagnetic force and gravity etc to create all the products and things we create, but just as one force can make another force happen (gravity pulls two objects together to make them interact electromagnetically), the force ”life” can make us create all these new objects with electromagnetism and gravity.

An example would be building a house. Gravity pulls the bricks toward the ground, electromagnetism creates friction that holds the bricks together. But it was LIFE that led us to do it, something that couldn’t happen (I think?) through the 4 usual forces. But now I’m starting to speculate too much for my own good here, good night