Dark Matter & Intelligence (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, January 16, 2012, 01:08 (4696 days ago) @ dhw

dhw,

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.

I agree here. But remember: recycling in plastics means that the plastic is melted down and reused... one bottle becomes part of many others.

I would tend to think that the same thing would happen to our &quot;souls,&quot; contrary to the ancient Hindu/Buddhist views... Especially if we are all temporary manifestations of some &quot;superconsciousness.&quot; <--My preferred idea for a deity.

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

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!

Ah... but all theories are necessarily images... and all images are also necessarily theories: The difference is in the level of abstraction.

If Higgs-fields and dark matter truly inter-connect all islands of &quot;ordinary&quot; matter in the universe... it&apos;s extremely difficult to even attempt a discussion of what&apos;s on the other side of that field...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"