This is all very good thinking, and really makes us go deeper and question ourselves and th eentire existence, but you have to strike a fine limit between 'philosophizing' and 'getting results'. Check out my sig:
Keep an open mind, just not too open or your brain will escape...
It's how each an every one of us thinkers deals with finding that balance that defines how truly 'wise' we are going into the world each day...
anyone else a fan of philosophising while gazing at the stars?!? that's when it all starts to roll....
That's one incentive... when you're extremely happy with no reason, you philosophise as well, when you face death in your social or family circle, you philosophise too. Whenever something appears or happens that causes you to 'think out of the box' , you tend to philosophise and generalise quite a bit.
As for the Matrix reference, here's something interesting. Some scientists ( cosmologists ) and philosophers say that human beings are a tool the universe needs to verify its existence. After the breakthroughs in quantum physics in th elast 60 years or so, which have shown that in the atom world, observation can actually affect th ephenomenon being observed, some have gone farther saying that the universe's own existence depends upon our observation and asking ourselves quastion about it.
I mean , if humans or oither sentient beings were not around toi gaze at the stars and wonder what the universe really is and how does it work, would there really be a point in the universe existing? It's like the tree in the forrest example. perhaps we feed the cosmos with our thoughs and quastions, much like our body energies fed the machines in The Matrix... Food for thought
