 Have you heard about the the holographic universe? Have you read that book? I have not. So this guy basically summarised a few studies that have been done recently that show the world is essentially a hologram. So with a hologram every piece of the hologram has a copy of the entire image and so the idea is that in every tiny atom of our existence inside that atom is the key or like the map of everything else in existence and yeah interestingly like modern quantum mechanics and quantum physics has apparently shown that if you take away the empty space in between atoms or in between electrons or protons and then shrunk everything down everything would fit into a grain of sand and so yeah I find that really interesting and I've seen comparisons of like think small things in nature compared to massive things like for example like your eye compared to the structure of a universe and it's very similar and then if you look as well like the structure of a galaxy compared to the structure the way our neurons in our brain create different synaptic maps they look almost identical like the way they form these patterns and then even in the middle ground like the way we build our cities if you look at a picture of a city at night from above like from a satellite image the way we spread out naturally forms the same kind of pattern as the neurons in our brain and how galaxies are formed so it's like no matter how far in you look or how far out you look we're following the same kind of template of creation which hologram right yeah as above so below exactly that's and that's again that idea is all over the ancient spiritual texts it's in like every religion every spiritual and historical text they seem to have like their their version of that as above so below so what does it all mean definitely it is honestly crazy I mean the fact the fact that the way I look at it is the fact that the universe almost has this line of progression like the way that we're evolving the the way that it has intrinsic patterns set in the universe shows me that there's explicit meaning within the universe there's explicit you know direction that we're heading to you know whether that's you know humanity's ascension whether that's you know the unity of everyone I feel like there is you know a direction of evolution that we need to push through and not even actively need to push because I think the universe is gonna do it for us and we're just here for the ride almost in a way yeah the question is if there's a direction we're going in as a species or as a I guess as a whole universe are we here to experience that kind of like the observer and everything's determined everything is like destined to happen exactly how it's going to happen or are we here to create or change that outcome like using our free will to actually create something we want to experience I'm really curious about that yeah that is a very good question and I feel like with the determinism and free will debate I feel like there's not a certain answer because everyone's level of free will is varied I feel like depending on your level of consciousness the factors of determinism you know decrease or increase so if you've got a high level of consciousness you have more capacity for free will if you have a low level of consciousness you are more inclined to deterministic factors and therefore you have a set destiny and I feel like you know our goal in life is to be the observer of the input that's coming into us the deterministic factors and then making that self aware choice to have the free will to act against those deterministic factors and then by developing that scale of choice through you know increasing our level of consciousness we become more free will you know enlightens and yeah I feel like that is the path I should do but for times the question I feel like yeah there is a variety of free will within everyone