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| Posted by
Samuel A. (Sam) Cox on January 11, 2005 at 19:06:19 (Message posted from "unknown" at 68.45.160.182) - explanation In Reply to: "Do we know that intellect isn't tainted by matter?" posted by Rachel on January 11, 2005 at 08:12:18
Sometimes the simplest questions are most profound. Why does a car or a key accelerate at the same rate when dropped at an equal distance from the center of a gravitational field? The link between intelligence and matter seems to be clear...the two are related. However, as Fred Hoyle mused, how does intelligence "monkey around" in the heart of stars to assure that thermonuclear reactions produce carbon in the necessary proportion so as to make life possible? We usually assume that the universe is a great void, where rare islands of complexity and decreasing entropy exist, but how does intelligence store information in stars? It is clear that the universe is a holistic entity. Everything from soup to nuts happens to exist in such a configuration as to make our observation of it possible. I wouldn't say that intellignece is tainted by matter, rather that the two are linked in a very special relationship... |
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