Cosmologic philosophy: multiverse (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 17:37 (2874 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: The meaning is the presence of us, thinking and debating.

dhw: You are welcome to think you are the meaning of the universe. I have a horrible feeling that the billions of solar systems coming and going couldn’t care less about you or me. If there is a God, you yourself have warned us many times not to endow him with human attributes (although it’s OK for you to view him “as a very purposeful guy who knows exactly where He is taking things”), but I guess there is no harm in hoping he regards us as meaningful.

Billions of parts of the universe can't think. They can't have a thought of us, but we think about them. Why is that? Because God gave us consciousness. Of course we sre meaningful. Only the appearance of our species could change the planet, which we have.