I used to wonder as the Earth was whizzing through space what happens when we hit the odd dust cloud, or radiation hikes, to our brains and to our bodies. I was interested because the whole idea that we are free individuals makes little sense as you look at the universe as a whole as we are subjected to an array of forces. It has become even more interesting as physicists have begun to open up the world of particles finding that theories suggest a particle in one part of the universe directly impacts on the responses of another particle on the other side of the universe. Since some of these particles are in our brains I wondered what effect that could be having?
We often point to sociological factors to explain human behaviour, more because it is something we can point to than something we understand, but at the particle level we are in a fathomless pit. The Universe contains energy and information and particles all contain an understanding of each other. How can we even begin to comprehend what that means for us?
What it means for us that we have to start to look at human activity from a different angle, from a point of view that in not human-centric. That events may be instigated from activity billions of miles away. Relevance is understanding the question, “Do we have any relevance?”
I look forward to the answers.