macro versus micro reality?

Question

what are your opinions.
on one hand you have this micro world- the you that is intimate with emotions and comfort and pain. reactions to survival ect- very personal- everything is meaningful to the you that is you and if this next part is offensive to you in ANY way then your conciousness is in this personal reality-as you getting offended is a personal thing- like a person with aids may condemn themselves as a personal issue for thinking they did something different to deserve this. (as an example- remember this is not to offend anyone)
on this other hand we have a macro universe that is nature. very impersonable. a universe that things happen on a grand scale and is impersonable to the individual. like an aids epidemic to slow the human creation when it starts to get out of hand.
then it doesnt matter what you do in a large scale as you were simply a key in th eprocessing of nature and in reality you are perfect the way you are- suffering or not

Answer 1

Great question, hope you don't mind a long answer. I like to think over these things as well.



The micro world can effect the macro world, in ways that are very influential. A person with a viral disease is an example of how impacted human life is by the micro world. When humans are healthy they tend to downplay this influence.



It can matter what you do, if you think that doing anything matters or others think that what you do matters. If I throw a ball across the room, the ball doesn't care, but I have still done something and can ponder its "matter" (significance) or I can just say "I don't care". If I throw a ball across the room, and I have dog, the dog will normally care about the ball, and may inspire me to as well. The ball throwing then takes on a whole new significance. The same works when people act in social situations, they inflate the importance of their actions.



Sartre wrote that if you were all alone and screamed out loud and cursed, you'd do it with more ease, then if you were in front of other people. Why? Its because what we do effects other people. The significance of something (event) is all about how we and other things are affected by it, but also how we think about those affections.



Now if your talking about the super macro (nature), that is a lot harder to understand. We live on a scale in between the micro and macro worlds, and because of this we get confused by what is going on at either scale, especially the larger which works with ineffable intricacy.



The universe can be impersonal. For me, it depends on whether or not it effects people. Just in the same way a person can be impersonal if what they do effects others. "...Then it gets personal." If it rains that effects me, if the sun shine that affects me. Like all animals. I am not unaffected by the environment.

Answer 2

We live a semi blind micro existence within a macro universe - paradox of human conscious existence - how we survive and remain sane(ish)



"We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we are able to live - with the postulation of bodies, lines, surfaces, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content: without these articles of faith nobody could now endure to live ! But that does not mean they are something proved and demonstrated."

Answer 3

Cogs in wheels, we will never know the function of life as you say we are to caught up in our own little worlds to see the larger picture, mother nature will punish all who go against her.