I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.

I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.
I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.
I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.
I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.
I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.
I think I'm going mad I really think I'm going mad I really think so.

There are times like now when I wonder to myself if ever I will amount to anything. And then I say to myself, “Self. No, of course not. Because in the cosmic scheme of things, no one ever amounts to much of anything anyway.” Of course when I say this to myself I have to wonder what in the hell it is that I am saying. The cosmic scheme of what things? And what do I mean by “amount to anything?” I suppose that I amount to whatever I do. And for that matter I amount to whatever I think.

Imagine for a moment that the Universe is a closed system just like my mind, which I believe to be, essentially, “the stuff” of my brain (e.g. its matter and configuration and processes and existence in time—a functioning neural network). Now, if the Universe is a closed system then my actions (e.g. what I do) affect only the elements within it. And because my mind is a closed system, what I think effects only the elements within it. So therefore what I amount to is both what I do and what I think since my mind, a closed system, is fully contained with the Universe, another closed system.

Therefore I could simply do nothing but think and amount to a great deal affecting an incredibly complex yet closed system and no one would know it. Of course I could do a great deal of stuff without necessarily too much thought and have very little effect on either the Universe or my mind. Or I could expend a tremendous amount of energy both thinking and doing and still have little effect on the Universe, yet take my toll on my mind. Of course to effect the Universe in any significant way is currently unfathomable. Although as thinking beings we've certainly managed throughout our entire history to do both a lot of thinking and doing, affecting adversely as well positively both of our closed systems, the mind more so than the Universe—we are supreme egoists first before we are anything—just what would it take to actually affect the Universe in any noticeable way?

One cosmically insignificant accident, such as a bunch of planet sized asteroids one day slamming into our planet or, for example, wiping out the solar system, would end any potential I (or any thinking being) might have to affect change to the universe—assuming this were to happen before we found a way to live out in space away from earth.