reply to post by WorldShadow
"You almost have to suspect you are in a quantum projection decoded by your intelligence connection to an infinitely collective knowledge base where
what we believe is real builds upon itself from its collective sophistication."
The collective mind. Rupert Sheldrake called a similar theory the Morphogenetic Field. A kind of collective or directing intelligence nudging a
species into evolving and spreading "new behaviours" throughout a species regardless of geographic boundaries. Perhaps multiple levels of
intelligence above that leading up to the "Uber Intellect"?
Was this universe "mathematical" before mathematics was created by man? I find it very unsettling that mathematics has become the blueprint for the
universe, yet, at the same time, it is quite beautiful as far as it goes.
Thought, however, can never be reduced to mathematics, or chemistry, or electrical sparks. It takes all of this to make a thought in the physical
realm, but a thought is so much more than the sum of it's parts. One cannot combine a pinch of this chemical, gram of that chemical in some
mathematical recipe, add a spark of electricity and come up with a thought in a test tube.
Our thoughts have changed not only the human world, but the world as a whole. Not always for the better either. So why would a universe create life,
and then life with intelligence? To me, at least, it seems more reasonable, more logical, that thought created the universe as a means to some end...
or that the universe is much more than just the material it is comprised of.
Perhaps the universe created life to evolve to an intelligent state as a means of self discovery, self awareness through us and those that come from
us. Our function is to create the past as well as to create the future and to grow the universe. Maybe we are the evolving DNA of the universe. Not
just "us" but all life throughout the universe at all levels of awareness.
Do science and mathematics as well as religion/spirituality combine to give "personality" to the universe? If so, i would guess the universe to be
in its infancy, especially if
we are the "super intellect" of the universe.
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