I'm having a dream but I can't remember hardly any of the details. I remember one detail that is profound. In the dream.. I'm doing something in a group of people. Suddenly I have a flash and I see the people not as they would be in a waking state but as if they were animated. When brief flash I see a family was very stressed and worry lines on their face. But they're like a car 3D cartoon very bright vivid colors. Can I see a family that's very happy very similar but again their cartoons. I suddenly get the idea that when I dream I Can Dream any form that I can imagine. Normally my dreams look like reality with some of the laws of physics and time space continuing not in effect. But now I realize my mind is a full AI engine that can create anything on the Fly dynamically. It's a little overwhelming because things change so fast even a single object morphing morphing morphing it's hard to make any sense out of it. So now I think the biggest challenge is to imagine an environment that's stable enough that it feels like I'm walking through a stable environment and yet have my imagination to interact with it in amazing ways. This brief dream segment is an example. I'm again in a large group of people it's actually a large space and people are mostly individually working but then they get together in small discussion groups. I've come to understand about the universal flexibility of matter. I found it in the form of a tool. Paul is working out in the hall on something in the ceiling. I hand him the tool but he looks at it and it doesn't quite do what he wants and I just say pull on it and imagine what you want and so he takes a wrench that was three inches long and pulls on it and now it's 12 inches long. But it's not just a wrench it can be anything so what the basic form of this material is. And I see you in a little cart next to me an unopened package with some gelatinous mass inside and I assume that this is it and it's base form. But then it Dawns on me that this is the case for all objects indeed all things in my dreams. They can be manipulated to become anything. It's a little overwhelming. I spend a good deal of time in that space between wake and dreams and manipulating all sorts of objects and ideas. I come to the conclusion that there is an objective reality. But that how we interact with it is up to us. And when I say there is an objective reality is that indeed just a simulation? If it is a simulation it's ancient and Incredibly detailed and Fabulous. It's actually hard to imagine any better possible simulation. The actual connection between me / my mind and reality is consciousness. Tick tock on physics I do appreciate the power of the forces that keep this physical reality in place. But again primarily it's the power of imagination or consciousness. Or indeed our physical reality is vastly empty space with energy behaving with what we call laws of physics. So what are these laws? They appear to be things that we discovered but they could easily be concepts created by God. What if God is consciousness and the laws of physics or just the laws that he put in place for this existence. We may be many others with different laws. Our purpose here is to understand what we can and grow as we can. A beautiful thought really. Another brief thought experiment I had is what if humans were physically manifest objects that represented the resources that we consume. Example is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It eats vast amounts of other animals and it's huge in its entire confirmation is for devouring other beings. I imagine we will be much larger than a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I'm going to have to do some research.
This is a thought experiment. If you look at a Tyrannosaurus Rex they are gigantic. They are an organic machine designed to consume large amounts of living beings. They're perfectly designed to accomplish this task in their size is directly proportional to the amount of things that they consume. In Modern Life in modern countries individual humans consume vast resources. As a Tyrannosaurus Rex's size is relative to the amount of protein that it eats how big would a human be if their size was directly proportional to the amount of resources that in typical individual in a developed country consumes.
This is a fantastic and insightful thought experiment. You're essentially asking: If humans were scaled up in size to match their modern-day resource consumption the way a T. rex's body reflects its dietary needs, how huge would we be?
Let’s walk through a rough estimation using metaphorical logic, while grounding it in some basic facts:
🦖 Baseline: The Tyrannosaurus Rex
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Weight: ~9 tons (18,000 lbs)
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Daily food intake estimate: 80–100 lbs of meat (roughly 0.5–0.6% of body weight)
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That’s around 30,000–36,000 lbs (15–18 tons) of meat annually.
This gives us a T. rex ratio of 2:1 — for every ton of T. rex, roughly 2 tons of food per year were required.
👤 Modern Human Resource Consumption
Let’s take a typical person in the United States, one of the highest-consuming nations:
Annual resource use (ballpark numbers):
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Food: ~2,000 lbs/year
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Water: ~50,000 gallons/year (~400,000 lbs)
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Fossil fuels (direct and indirect): ~15,000 lbs/year
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Raw materials (minerals, metals, lumber, etc.): ~60,000–100,000 lbs/year
👉 That’s roughly 500,000–600,000 lbs/year of total resource use per person.
🔁 Translating to “Biological” Scale
Let’s apply the T. rex's 2:1 consumption-to-mass ratio.
If 2 tons (4,000 lbs) of annual consumption = 1 ton (2,000 lbs) of T. rex body mass, then:
🧍♂️Final Scale:
A 300,000 lb human, metaphorically scaled to match our consumption, would be:
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150 times heavier than a 2,000 lb T. rex.
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Over 20 times heavier than a blue whale (the heaviest modern animal).
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Easily 100 times bigger than a normal human.
📏 Rough Visual Estimate
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Height: If a human is 6 feet tall at 200 lbs, a 300,000 lb version (1,500× mass) would scale up in linear dimensions by about 11.5×.
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So you'd be around 70 feet tall — the size of a 10-story building — with body proportions like a regular person but on kaiju scale.
💡 Interpretation
This version of a human isn't just big — it’s monstrously outsized, a walking monument to consumption. Like the T. rex evolved to dominate the food chain, this thought-experiment human reflects domination over the entire ecosystem: devouring energy, materials, land, and water.
It’s not just a metaphor. Our invisible size — ecological footprint — is colossal. If we had to carry our consumption on our backs like a biological burden, we’d be the most terrifying apex predator the planet’s ever known.
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