I am a student of Philosophy currently enrolled at university. I am a huge movie fan, I enjoy reading, rock climbing, and various genres of music - mainly Classic Rock, Ambient, and Deathdream. I also really like writing, but I have never had the time or the motivation to commit to it fully (until now!). I keep trying to play more videogames with friends but a lot of the time I don't have the motivation. I'm a sucker for Tetris though, and without tooting my own horn too hard I am quite good at it.
I'm not very good at talking about myself, but it tends to come out in small pieces in my writing, or what it is I write about specifically.
I struggle to rigidly label what I believe because it changes ever so slightly very frequently, but currently I would consider myself a constitutive protopanpsychist. That is, I believe that throughout the universe is some kind of property that, when arranged in particular ways, causes the emergence of consciousness. I'm not sure what this property would look like, but it is fun to speculate. Maybe it's part of a higher or lower order dimension, or maybe it's just some kind of subatomic property just waiting to be discovered.
This belief affects my views in other areas too. I believe there is an afterlife in some form, and it's where our "consciousness" goes when it's broken down back into its prototypic parts. When this happens, there is not awareness in the way we understand it normally, but the conscious properties that were "us" still exist in the universe, and therefore our existence persists in some form after our bodies die. People that have near-death experiences report states that are far deeper than anything they can typically comprehend. Wherever the mind returns to leaves enough of an impact on the recovered mind that some people are willing to call their experiences an encounter with God. Some people even convert afterwards! I don't follow any particular religion, but I think it plays an important role in linguistic comprehension of the infinite, and near-death experiences are an example of that. I'm not closed off to the idea of there being a God, but I wouldn't subscribe to any sort of commonly accepted religion as I believe they're more metaphorical texts pointing to a broader truth that can be called God. In this sense, I am an advocate of Religious Pluralism even if I don't agree with the normative practices associated with them, nor their symbolic representations of the infinite.
I think the infinite is more than just a way to describe something beyond our comprehension, or beyond the time necessary to calculate some value. I think it is an intrinsic aspect of the universe and our minds. The universe is, I believe, a fractal of some kind. Any physically explainable "structure" can be seen again at a greater scale, and the structure that encompasses "all of it" is what our world religions are talking about when they refer to God. I believe it has mathematical and also linguistic significance, hence the recurring theme of Word in ancient religious texts (The Word being God, Aum as the sound of creation, and so on), and the accuracy with which mathematics can explain complex behaviour in physical reality.
I'll definitely be writing about this in more depth over time, but that works for a brief overview of my philosophical views. I'm always up for discussing it with people of course!