Dark Matter & Intelligence (General)

by dhw, Sunday, January 15, 2012, 11:30 (4504 days ago) @ xeno6696

MATT: But if we're all part of this universe... do we really truly "die?" I know its not what your point was. But if all things are linked in this vast cosmic network of dark-matter filaments... and the universe is all that is, and we're a part of it...Then how do we ever truly "leave?" I'm not talking in the sense of a "soul" but that everything that makes me, me... doesn't really disappear. It just radically changes form.

I think we can all accept the argument that whatever we’re made of stays around in one form or another. The universe is one great recycling process. But as I said earlier, an afterlife as worm-food is not my idea of an afterlife. Perhaps more to the point is the question that we keep asking: whether anything can ever come out of nothing. For me the ex nihilo argument is beyond reason and imagination. An eternal recycling process makes more sense.

MATT: As to your larger question, yes, usually patterns in nature seem to repeat. What's a little trickier... what constitutes a cosmic "cell?"

I was trying to draw an analogy between the universe and the body. The cosmic cells would be the various material components such as stars and suns, which come and go in a constant process of death and renewal, like our own cells. Presiding over our body is our mind, and presiding over the universal body would be the universal mind (if it exists). Just an image, not a theory!