The meaning of life.
Good Question
I'm very tired so I'll see what I can do, this one I stand behind:
You are born a human, and do not really think
of the meaning of life. You only think within your human brain. And in your
human world. For example: 'My sisters dating a drug addict, its the most shocking
thing in the world! I want to kill them both! Nothing worse than this could
ever happen! Unless her ex kills himself!'
This is what being a human is like. You are
locked into these thoughts and into these emotions and so into this world.
But what is this world? What is your universe? For it is certainly not t^hat.
That form of human world is just a mind game you're playing on yourself because
of your biology.
What
matters more is what's really going on. We are all sharing a planet, and we
don't know how we got here. Well we do, natural selection is true, you can
test it yourself. But we don't know how the fuck the universe got here. And
us being comprised of the fabric of that universe, that also means we don't
know how we got here either.
I saw a film called 'What the bleep do we know?'
where some quantum physicists and philosophers were saying nothing effectively
exists. And if we thought our way past it we could walk on water and become
invisible and do what we want.
They saw the universe as something we create
in our own heads. Which is true. The only meaning the universe has now is
that which we give it. Yet it is more solid than that! No matter how out there
wildly insane you are, you cannot become invisible at will, you cannot teleport
for fuck's sakes. You cannot think your hand through the wall next to you.
Believe me I'VE TRIED.
The fact is that the universe is solid. Although
I create it in my own head, you create it in a completely different head and
if you came to see me, your reality of it would be different. Though you would
see the walls and décor in the same places and you could not think
your hand through the wall either. Though perhaps you may have a differing
opinion as to whether the mess in here was a good or a bad thing.
Theres a theory in Stephen Hawking's book 'A Brief History of Time' called the 'Weak Anthropic Principle'*, which states that if the stars are moving away from each other at the perfect speed and theres water and air and all that good stuff that's needed to form intelligent life. Then we should not be surprised to be intelligent life in it.
My theory of the universe is it is a spectrum. And that it all relies on each
other.
Like you see a spectrum in a rainbow, with all the possible colours. So we
are a spectrum of what rationally exists. We are the universe that was, the
part of everything and nothing that makes sense to be.
The universe looks like a spectrum, with the
spectrum of mathematics that human or alien can discover there and know that
2+2=4 or E=MC^2. And with the spectrum of colours and the spectrum of the
Periodic Table of Elements, where elements can be predicted for they fall
into a spectrum.
And thus we are in a spectrum of reality. Yet
it still doesn't make sense. Where did we come from? And if its all due to
luck over a long long period of time. Then how come anything exists at all?
What started it all off? Because something did start it all off. As time has
begun, and is still going on.
To
put it in a nutshell, the universe does not make sense. Unless, there is a
god figure lurking about the place. Yet this is a universe that makes sense,
and a god in it would need a brain. A very very big brain. You simply cant
just get one out of nowhere. Unless there is a chain reaction back in time
of the sort that made your brain exist today.
That could happen for a god, but the chain reaction
being us, hundreds of thousands of years in the future, or some aliens somewhere
building a brain for such a god. And give it that much time of our frantic
genius swarm of increasing the complexity of matter and energy. And we could
allow it to access space time and then start time off from the beginning.
And
theres no reason, why us working with that god, could not pluck the essence
of a person, their soul or a snapshot of them or whatever you could call it.
Could pluck it out at your death and take it into its systems into a computer
generated heaven of an afterlife. Where we can stay until we're sick of ourselves
or of hanging around and want to do something real again and go back to Earth.
It's the latest human fantasy anyway. In the
future we will be able to modify simple things such as our flesh into anything
we want. We will make an arm into a leg on a whim and a leg into a bionic
computer. So what's to say we could not make a brain into energy?
And
people say, weak hacks, that nothing really matters. There is no good and
no bad. But that is thinking like a rock. If we are but personal biological
universes, floating round a framework of walls and floors and a sky and encased
in a flesh body. If that is all we are, then there can be no point, there
can be no good nor bad. But the reality is, that there is Truth and Falseness.
There is reality. And logic, like mathematics and my wall, makes sense.
And if we were thinking logically, then surely
not being some 'ass monkey' biological personal universe floating round damaging
the rest of the biological universes, surely it isn't as good as being a universe
that knows who it is and sees the logic in the universe it lives in. It is
best to know yourself, and to know the universe for what it is.
Because as we all float together we are connected
as a species as intrinsically as your DNA is tightly wound. The possibilities
connect us, existing in the same time connects us all. And everything we do
and think effects each other. From one to the other to the other. Infinitesimally
small effects upon each other ranging to massive ones for those on TV. Would
it be more logical to be helpful in this effort, or to hinder? In essence,
by the way, we are one being, of change.
And surely if we set ourselves to a logical purpose, that of species enlightenment and the end to our suffering via technology. Then pure truth will solve all.
(C)opywrite Nick.Eliot[at]Cannotfindserver.net -20/02/07
*‘The weak anthropic principle states that in the universe that is large or infinite in space and/or time the conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time. The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence’ [taken from ‘A Brief History of Time' by Stephan Hawking]