Today in Philosophy, we're learning about existence. We're learning about how we don't know if we actually exist or not. How we don't know if other people exist or if it's just our life that matters. He asked us the question of "how do you know you're not dreaming right now?". We all had an answer like, "well because this feels real and we know when we're dreaming."
He said that we don't actually know for sure what's real and what's not. We think we know what is reality, but we could just think that way because that's all we "know".
He then talked about how a lot of things in nature are based off of math and I am garbage at math so I just got even more confused. I understood what he was talking about with "Fibonacci's numbers" and it was really cool to understand and learn, but I kinda freaked myself out in that class.
Fibonacci's numbers are numbers that an old mathematician came up with for some reason and these numbers appear in nature and almost everything. The pattern is you start with 1 and 1 and you add the number and the one before it. For example 1 + 1 is 2 and then 1 + 2 is 3 and then 2 + 3 is 5 and 3 + 5 is 8, etc. These numbers appear in the amount of pedals on certain daisies and pine cones and a lot of other plants and natural things.
It's very interesting to think about, but a little scary at the same time.
And I suck at math.
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