What is bigger...Your mind or the Universe?

It may seen like a silly question. But which one do you think is bigger? The power of your mind's imagination or the vastness of the universe? Can you fill in the knowledge of an entire universe inside your head?

The power of mind.

No. The human brain while incredibly powerful cannot contemplate EVERYTHING in the universe. Every planet. Every organism. Every gas, atom and electron.

Even trying would drive us insane. Our puny brains pale in comparision.

we could never fit the knowledge of the enitre universe into out tiny human brains ❌

No, it depends on the mind if you ask me.

So Draco69 you're saying that the human mind has limits?

Whats up Wind, banned anyone lately?

Nope, I think its your mind.

I don´t think we can have all the knowledge in the universe, like all the information that exists about everything, or like a encyclopedia about everything. But I think that maybe we can know everything in another way, not by having all the information, but by understand the meaning of everything. A more subjective way to know things perhaps.

Originally posted by WindDancer
So Draco69 you're saying that the human mind has limits?

Yes. We can only process so much. We can process the universe as per say a room with lots of objects in it...but not EVERYTHING, EVERYWHEN, EVERYWHERE and EVERYBODY.

Our brains can do alot....but not something as grand as this.

Originally posted by Atlantis001
I don´t think we can have all the knowledge in the universe, like all the information that exists about everything, or like a encyclopedia about everything. But I think that maybe we can know everything in another way, not by having all the information, but by understand the meaning of everything. A more subjective way to know things perhaps.

I doubt we can understand the meaning of everything. Sure we can attempt--and we have--to put the universe in a simple picture but the universe is beyound our futile conceptions of right & wrong.

The Universe is much more then we will ever understand.

we will never know one thing.

the meaning of life.

Considering I have no clue what the mind is truly capable of I can only say it's unlikely that it rivals the vastness of the universe.

Our mind DOES obviously have a limit, it's not infinite. The universe is.

-AC

Universe.

Well, the power of imagination has no limits. But the Universe has boundaries and can be measure with the help of science and physics. So, can the mind really have limits? (this is just philosophical thoughts everyone)

Originally posted by WindDancer
Well, the power of imagination has no limits. But the Universe has boundaries and can be measure with the help of science and physics. So, can the mind really have limits? (this is just philosophical thoughts everyone)

I believe that there is a physical limit to our imagination. Example; I know my cat has an imagination, she will stock and pounce on things that are not there, but she can not grasp the basics of math, no matter how much she could try. She does not have enough brain. We have a limited amount of brain, so we are like my cat, there are some things we can not do, and we don't know what they are.

The imagination can experience all, but don't think it can remember all of the universe......It can create, it can destroy, it can journey, travel, marvel..... and I don't consider it part of the brain...I feel the mind is separate from the brain...

Besides we haven't even agreed what the universe is anyway...

Originally posted by debbiejo
The imagination can experience all, but don't think it can remember all of the universe......It can create, it can destroy, it can journey, travel, marvel..... and I don't consider it part of the brain...I feel the mind is separate from the brain...

Besides we haven't even agreed what the universe is anyway...

Well, I was interpreting this thread as staying in the mind. If you leave the mind and travel into a greater conciseness then I'm considering that as being on the universe side of this question. If you are confused, you are not a lone. 😕

Will imagination is part of what the mind is....so...I took it as that....the mind can't even really be explained either...

Must be a quantum thingy.. 😎