Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Is the Universe Capable of Conscious Thought?

What kind of question is this? Stars, planets, galaxies, all capable of conscious thought? I doubt that I'll find many takers for this idea, but that's not all there is to the universe. There is also the quantum universe, so small that only our best instruments are able to look into it. Is there conscious thought there? How about light? The properties of light are not fully known. If you doubt that, look into zero point energy which some scientists say contains light that is not used until it is needed. If it does in fact, provide energy to decaying atoms, how does it know to do so? If we search the universe looking for a conscious entity we call God and don't find Him, think about this; maybe we are looking in the wrong place. As I pointed out in the last posting, we are a collection of cells, but we think. Some of our cells clearly have that capacity. If we can think, is it a stretch to say that the energy in our universe, both large and small is incapable of thought? I'm not smart enough to answer the question, but I think any of us are smart enough to pose it. If some smart people are able to put things together and answer the question, think on this. We know a lot but there is a lot we don't know. If we don't let our literalist religion take us back to the dark ages, and our scientists, along with our poets, break into the clear and reach an understanding of what the universe really is, there may be no limit to how far we can go. We might actually be able to solve some of the terrible things that have made life so difficult for us. Isn't it worth a try?

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