Reality
Imagine
Implications of Infinity:
There are an infinite number of universes.
Our universe is filled with intelligent beings.
These beings came about through evolution or were created by intelligent beings whose origin was from evolution.
These beings have emotions like ourselves.
There may be a finite amount of energy / matter in each universe.
If this mater and energy exist in quanta then with an infinite number of universes there may be an infinite number of copies of us comprising all possible outcomes.
All of our futures may have already happened.
Quantum physics:
What we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Karl Heisenberg...
Could it be that what we observe effects actual reality. Could each of us live in our own universe which is constantly being created within an infinite multiverse?
Quantum Mechanics:
This states that matter can exists in more than one place at a time until it is observed. Could this mean that there is no existence until there is an observer and does existence come from nothingness in each moment?
Quantum Entanglement:
This is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other, even when the particles are separated by a large distance. If our conscientiousness is entangled the possible number of possible states could be so great to imply that we are unique or that we are literally connected.
It may be possible to be connected to other people through entanglement so that you may be able to feel another person's experience / feeling even if they are separated by a great distance, especially when a major event happens to them.
Immortality:
Even in our world our complex emotional existence may not be unique.
Although we are mortal, someone who has experienced all of our emotional experiences may exist.
At some point in the “near” future there will be advances in science where people who believe that they are mortal will be able to live indefinite life spans.
Every Child a Wanted Child:
Conception prevention could be expanded to help every child be a wanted child.
We should work toward that now.
Science:
We have polluted out planet and caused global warming but with the advances in medicine and science it is still better to be born today than 20 years ago. We are leaving you with a polluted but better world as we move our species toward an indefinite life span. Quit blaming and do something.
The study and adaption of science is a positive force in our universe. Our species, our planet may not survive the atomic stage but intelligent life will survive and exist in a unimaginably advanced, happy state. We must embrace science with the caveat that people within our species will do almost anything to advance their perceived personal needs so we do need over site.
Education:
Education has improved our lives. We should encourage education for the sake of education. It is the most basic scientific research. A more educated population will be capable of adapting to the future and of making better choices. Many of us are naive and can be conned. Society still needs protection from amoral predators.
The wealthy:
The wealthy are wealthy because of us. We are all part of the success of the wealthy. America is based on a progressive system of it's citizens contributing to the welfare of all of us. We should value the welfare of all of our citizens and create a rational balance.
Whose Responsibility?:
Reparations should be considered for descendants of slavery, American Indians and some original Mexicans who had their lands confiscated as the vestiges of slavery and predation are still with us. Tuition free junior college, low interest rate loans for college, improved child and medical care would be a good start.
Regulations:
There are sociopaths among us. They may be necessary parts of our species but it is proper for a civilized society to protect itself. We still need some rules, regulations and consumer protections.
Imagine:
Within 200 years people will be born or exist who will have an indefinite life span. What would life be like for intelligent life 100,000 years from now. Imagine that anything that is known can be known by anyone instantaneously. What would people do for entertainment? What would be a movie? Could it be experiencing what it is like to be an animal in 2019? Could this be an advanced intelligence's idea of a movie.
Imagine that God is immortal and all powerful. How could mortal beings know something that god does not? Would mortality have to be part of god's consciousness? Are we that part of god's consciousness? Are we also god? When we die do we remember that we are god? Can you imagine that now?
Given that humans will have an indefinite life span within 200 years isn't it strange that we live just at the time, in a universe that is billions of years old, when we realize that humans will soon be virtually immortal but we are mortal.
If all this is created by inanimate matter self assembling itself until evolution shaped life, certainly intelligence beings also could create life. That God could exist is proven by our existence. What is the probability that we are a product of inanimate matter self assembling itself until evolution shaped life as oppose to an intelligent life force creating us. The conclusion is that even if we are created by intelligent life or we are intelligent life in a movie, we are, god is, originally a product of evolution.
This is real, evolution is real. We should not assume that we can not understand something. We need to try and find that underlying science behind everything. Einstein may have been the first to understand relativity but now we can study relativity and understand it. It is not about being the first, it is about being.
Are Dinsovans and Neanderthals extinct?
Twenty percent of Neanderthal DNA survives in modern humans. We are still here. Will Homo sapiens be extinct because eventually there will be no modern humans with pure Homo sapiens DNA left. Are our primate ancestors who we inherited DNA from completely gone? We are a composite of all our ancestors with a few changes thrown in.
What are we?
We are mortal, self aware, thinking animals with various percentages of the basic emotions:
Joy,
Excitement,
Surprise,
Sadness,
Anger,
Disgust,
Contempt,
Fear,
Shame,
Guilt.
We share this with many other species. No difference. Our makeup helps determine who we are. Not particularly unique. We are both special and not special.
Life:
We are not separate from other life. There should be a bill of rights for other species.
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
Just being makes us very special.
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen Hawking
It is uncertain if we can understand the universe but we should continue to try.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking
Additional thoughts:
Why are we here:
I recently watched a video that asked this question. The responses were all very expected. It led me to my prior quote "Only the survivors talk". Given enough time a trillion monkey's typing at a type writer would create the works of Shakespeare. Given enough time, energy combining in enough ways created a universe that had an observer.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking...
In the infinity of time could there be a quantum fluctuation that was not just a virtual particle but an entire universe that could support life. The question is how could there be an observer. This can only be asked by a survivor, an observer.
This led to the question are we alone. I had assumed that life exists and if it exists here it should exist many places. The question led me to imagine a possibly that the odds of life existing approaches but is not zero. Then you would expect that the probability of a universe that has life to have only one life occurrence.
This implying that there is a scenario where we are not a virtual experience of some advanced being but rather the actual animals that we appear to be.
Feelings that god has intervened in your life:
Many people believe that god has saved them or intervened in their life. My brother was turning his life around. He had always been overweight. He decided to make a change and loose weight. I had talked to him on the phone and he said that he felt some discomfort in his groin. He did not have health insurance so he hadn't gone to see a doctor. As is turned out he had appendicitis. His appendix burst and he died of peritonitis. Another brother had a polyp removed during a colonoscopy. He waited 10 years before he had another colonoscopy. He waited too long, he had inoperable cancer and he died. My friend had been a life long smoker. He got an x-ray of his heart which showed a spot on his lungs. They did a biopsy and said it was an infection. He died a few months later of lung cancer.
I can't talk to any of them. They are dead. Statistically the odds were high that I would have died in one of the many car, motorcycle and hang glider accidents that I was in but I didn't. Only the survivors talk. Do I think that god intervened in my life and not theirs, no. Some next week I will not be here but there will be survivors that wonder why they survived. Only the survivors talk.
Free Will
I have speculated throughout these writings whether we exist as a unique being. ''
Some scientific theories postulate that all futures have already happened. If everything that can happen, has happen, can there be free will? If the future has not happened but we are emotionally one of many beings with the same essence can we be unique. That would imply in both cases there may be no free will.
If there is no free will, can we exist if we are only an observer? Quantum Mechanics states that nothing exist until there is an observation implies that everything is unique occurrence and that I can not be a copy of another being.
If there is no free will then I can not control anything that I am doing now. In fact I am not doing anything because I don't exist.
So the only conclusion to live by is that we do have free will. We do exist as a unique being, otherwise it is an absurd question.