u/No_Contract757

I’ve been thinking about a few connected ideas and I’d really like to hear different perspectives.
We usually say that logic, mathematics, and natural laws are not invented by humans, but discovered. For example, 2+2=4 seems to be true regardless of whether humans exist or not. The same applies to physics and the structure of reality.
That raises a question for me:
If logic and order exist independently of us, where do they come from? Why is the universe so mathematically consistent instead of chaotic or random?

One interpretation I’ve been considering is that this could point toward a higher intelligence or source of reality — what many people would call God. In Christianity, the Bible describes God as the source of order, meaning, and creation, and connects Him with the idea of “Logos” (reason/word/order).
But I’ve also been thinking about something more mathematical:
In mathematics, there is always structure and hierarchy.

For example:
1 × 1 = 1
1 × 2 = 2
This made me wonder if this idea of “scaling order” or “higher levels” could somehow imply that there must be a highest foundation or highest source. And in my thinking, that “highest” would correspond to God — something beyond which nothing greater or more fundamental exists.
On the other hand, I also understand the counterarguments:
mathematics describes relationships, not beings
numbers are symbolic, not physical entities
maybe the universe doesn’t require a “highest cause” at all
or maybe our minds are just naturally wired to see hierarchy and patterns everywhere

So I’m genuinely curious:
Does the existence of logic and mathematical structure suggest a deeper intelligence or creator?
Or is it just a property of reality without deeper meaning?
And do ideas like “hierarchy in mathematics” actually tell us anything about existence, or are they just abstract systems we project meaning onto?
How do you interpret the idea of God as a “highest source” in relation to logic and order?

I recently came across the “Egg Theory” by Andy Weir, and it completely messed with my head.
The idea is that every human who has ever lived or will live is actually the same consciousness, just experiencing life from different perspectives, one at a time. So basically, you are everyone.
And that got me thinking…
If that’s true, then where do I actually end?
Right now I feel like a separate person. I have my own thoughts, memories, identity. But according to the theory, that’s just one version of me. When I die, I would just continue as someone else, with no memory of this life.
So I started wondering if I’m just this current version of myself, or if I am literally every person, just at different points in time.
Because if I’m everyone, then every good thing I’ve ever done was for myself, and every bad thing too was also done to myself. That idea feels kind of disturbing, but also weirdly comforting at the same time.
But then I started thinking even further.
If this is true, does that mean my parents are also me? My grandparents too? My teachers? Am I basically raising myself, teaching myself, and shaping my own life from different perspectives without realizing it?
And what about people on the other side of the world? People living completely different lives, in different cultures, with completely different experiences. Are those also just other versions of me that I will eventually become?
Then another question came up that I can’t stop thinking about.
If I am everyone, who is the real “me”? Is there some kind of original version, a starting point where everything began? Or is there no original at all, and every single life is equally real and just another perspective?
Maybe the real “me” isn’t any individual person at all, but something behind all of them. One single consciousness experiencing every possible life, one after another.
And if that’s the case, does that mean that eventually I will understand everything and everyone? Or is the point that I already am everyone, just not aware of it yet?
I know this is probably just a philosophical thought experiment, but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about it.
Curious what you all think. Does this idea make sense to you, or is it just a really convincing mind game?

I recently came across the “Egg Theory” by Andy Weir, and it completely messed with my head.
The idea is that every human who has ever lived or will live is actually the same consciousness, just experiencing life from different perspectives, one at a time. So basically, you are everyone.
And that got me thinking…
If that’s true, then where do I actually end?
Right now I feel like a separate person. I have my own thoughts, memories, identity. But according to the theory, that’s just one version of me. When I die, I would just continue as someone else, with no memory of this life.
So I started wondering if I’m just this current version of myself, or if I am literally every person, just at different points in time.
Because if I’m everyone, then every good thing I’ve ever done was for myself, and every bad thing too was also done to myself. That idea feels kind of disturbing, but also weirdly comforting at the same time.
But then I started thinking even further.
If this is true, does that mean my parents are also me? My grandparents too? My teachers? Am I basically raising myself, teaching myself, and shaping my own life from different perspectives without realizing it?
And what about people on the other side of the world? People living completely different lives, in different cultures, with completely different experiences. Are those also just other versions of me that I will eventually become?
Then another question came up that I can’t stop thinking about.
If I am everyone, who is the real “me”? Is there some kind of original version, a starting point where everything began? Or is there no original at all, and every single life is equally real and just another perspective?
Maybe the real “me” isn’t any individual person at all, but something behind all of them. One single consciousness experiencing every possible life, one after another.
And if that’s the case, does that mean that eventually I will understand everything and everyone? Or is the point that I already am everyone, just not aware of it yet?
I know this is probably just a philosophical thought experiment, but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about it.
Curious what you all think. Does this idea make sense to you, or is it just a really convincing mind game?

I had a thought about time travel and changing the past.

Imagine humans can travel back in time. Most people think that if you go to the past and change something, history changes. But what if nothing is actually being changed?

What if it was always supposed to happen that someone travels back in time and causes those events? From our perspective it looks like we changed history, but in reality it was already part of history from the beginning.

But then I thought of another possibility:

Maybe changing the past creates a new future instead of replacing the old one.

Imagine time like a straight line. At some point, someone goes back in time and changes something. Instead of rewriting the original line, time creates a branch — a completely new future.

That would explain why memories from the “original” future wouldn’t disappear. The original timeline would still exist, while the new one continues separately, almost like a parallel universe.

If that’s true, then maybe the past, present, and future all exist at the same time. We only experience them in order because of human perception.

But then the biggest question appears:

Who or what decided that structure of time in the first place?