Why is there something rather than nothing? (Humans)

by dhw, Thursday, March 31, 2011, 13:42 (4985 days ago) @ xeno6696

MATT: David views that the Big Bang was 'it.' We only had one beginning, yet odd experiences such as deja vu point to many questions that a one-off universe can't fathom.-DAVID: I don't think that deja vu means there are parallel universes. A brain can receive messages. I have and my wife does it regularly, all within the Milky Way.-"Déjà vu" means literally "already seen", and usually refers to scenes we think are familiar, even though this is the first time we've actually experienced them. In the "brief guide" I recount a variation on this form from my wife's family, in which an infant described details of scenes he could not possibly have experienced for himself, but which had occurred during the life of a child that had died shortly before he was born. Such "messages" might be taken as evidence of reincarnation, but I would also say they tie in with other paranormal experiences that include OBEs and NDEs, in which perhaps the mind can move onto wavelengths that remain inaccessible most of the time. But like David, I can't see any evidence here of other universes, or even the need for such an explanation, since the "messages" always concern scenes from life on Earth.
 
As for "silly ideas like disembodied consciousness", if other universes provide "the only tenable explanation to how a deity can interface with the universe", are you suggesting that a Universal Intelligence does or doesn't have a body and brain like ours? If you're prepared to accept the possibility of different universes and dimensions, why not think in terms of different, as yet unknown forms of energy within this, the only universe we know? I join you in your scepticism about the 'one beginning' theory, but perhaps you could explain its relevance to paranormal experiences like déjà vu and to the nature of a deity's consciousness.