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Lebell · 12-19-2004, 01:24 PM

This is just a brief musing that I have time and again and is not original or new.

It also relates somewhat to Artelevision's thread on intelligence in the Universe.

Have you ever pondered this equation and it's theological implications?

Consider that Einstein's simple equation means that the self aware beings that are writing and reading this are coalesced energy that has somehow managed to organize itself to this state.

Since our thoughts are manifestations of this matter/energy in the form of electrical impulses dancing among neurons and are thus energy itself, is it unreasonable to posit a being for whom the organization and self awareness exists but without have to have been condensed to a matter state?

What would such a being be capable of doing?

12-19-2004, 01:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	E=MC^2 This is just a brief musing that I have time and again and is not original or new. It also relates somewhat to Artelevision's thread on intelligence in the Universe. Have you ever pondered this equation and it's theological implications? Consider that Einstein's simple equation means that the self aware beings that are writing and reading this are coalesced energy that has somehow managed to organize itself to this state. Since our thoughts are manifestations of this matter/energy in the form of electrical impulses dancing among neurons and are thus energy itself, is it unreasonable to posit a being for whom the organization and self awareness exists but without have to have been condensed to a matter state? What would such a being be capable of doing? __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!