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Last year, an international group of astrophysicists used a computer simulation to judge the shape of the universe and what they found is that it looks an awful lot like a brain cell.
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If a universe is like a brain cell, and black holes are portals to other universes, and, because of quantum entanglement information can be shared across the event horizon of a black hole, then...
What we have is a gigantic brain made up of potentially an infinite number of universes. The "dendrites" of the individual universe "cells" are effectively in contact with other cells through the mechanism of black holes.
What an incredible thought to ponder...
In particular, it's a bit frightening to think of a a billion year old bad civilization! Lots of time to hone their bad craft. But, billion year old good civilizations would be so incredibly fascinating! And, they would have the resources to fight the bad civilizations!
It's quite possible that the natural fate of a civilization is to merge with this universal intelligence. There are probably other physical civilizations out there -- but they may be limited to a local area of the universe -- as might we. Life at higher levels of the universe and beyond is something I don't think we can even begin to fathom.
You should watch Richard Dawkins' programme 'The Enemy of Reason'. It's all about science versus religion. It's very good. If you missed it it's available on 4OD (four downloads) which you can download on your PC.
It's like our own brains. Each brain cell contains nothing that we would actually call intelligent or conscious. We could kill off any one of those cells, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. Yet somehow, when they all work together, an intelligence and consciousness emerges.
This hypothetical super, trans-universal intelligence could no more have a meaningful conversation with us than we could have a conversation with one of our brain cells. Maybe. It would be presumtuous of me to claim this for certain. It could be that things are different, since we're at quite a higher level of consciousness than one of our brain cells. It could be that we're aware enough, and this creature is intelligent enough to figure out how to communicate with us. Of course, we'd still have to wonder why it would want to. Just maybe -- if its love and compassion also far exceeded our own, it would want to communicate with us, to help us. Hmmm, starting to sound a lot like the notion of God, eh?
Hot Gas in Space Mimics Life
Electrically charged specks of interstellar dust organize into DNA-like double helixes and display properties normally attributed to living systems, such as evolving and reproducing, new computer simulations show.
But scientists are hesitant to call the dancing dust particles "alive," and instead say they are just another example of how difficult it is to define life.
... "These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter," said study team member V.N. Tsytovich of the Russian Academy of Science.
"...if you could have life in the hot gases of a star, or in the hot, interstellar gas that suffuses the space between the stars, well, not only would that be 'life as we don't know it' but it might be the most common type of life."
http://www.space.com/scie...y/070814_plasma_life.html
It's really rather scary ...
In the same way, we could consider the universe (or multiverse) alive if it reproduces through black holes. If the same physical laws necessary for producing black holes are the same as what's needed for producing intelligent life as some have claimed, and the multiverse has thus evolved to better adapt and survive, then it not only explains how we're here asking these questions, but it gives one even more reason to pause and wonder...
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