JemIsExcitement

I beg your pardon if what I say is innapropriate or just a stupid subject to start a new thread over, but it's my first post. I started looking around, and this section immediately appealed to me, so I decided to throw something out there. If anything I say has a strong foundation for being scientifically innacurate, feel free to correct me. Please, bear with me.

'Nothing' is a man-made concept; as far as we can understand, nowhere does there exist a devoid, a lack of, or nothing. If there was even a square inch of 'nothing', I would imagine it would immediately be filled by 'something', like a bubble of air underwater popping. The reason we can see is because the particles that make up matter move about, and that movement creates heat, and heat creates light. That movement requires energy. The screen you're looking at now, yourself, and everything inbetween and far-off are all made up of energy. It may be significantly different, but it's all energy. Not to say that things we cannot understand simpy don't exist; don't get me wrong. But as far as our conception of 'The Universe' goes, yes, everything you or me can comprehend is essentially the same.

Of course, it's very depressing to imagine that you play just as insignificant a role as the weeds you can't get rid of in your back yard, or the rock that you stubbed your toe on yesterday. And it only makes sense that we, in our desperate attempts to feel justified in continuing to reproduce and create, invented a reason that we should be here. That reason, in our culture, is an almost Multi-Personality syndrome version of ourselves - A man who knows everything, understands everything, and is all powerful. He is wise, without fault, and has some enormous plan for us all. In other words, a 'perfect' version of ourselves. In the Bible, god strictly forbids Adam from eating from the tree of knowledge, because he knew that if he had, there would be nothing to seperate the two. Science is the search to understand, it's not all wires and buttons. And if all were understood, all could be altered.

'Living' things, of course, don't at all seem as insignificant as something like a cloud or the dirt we stand on. And an entity with a brain is significantly different from something without, or so it would seem. A blade of grass is only green because it just happened that way. 99.9% of all life that has ever been on earth is now gone - and the life that is still here is only here by mere chance. Life is simply a necessary part of a working equilibrium of chemical reactions occuring on our planet. The reason life exists here is because it was a byproduct of those combustible energies influcing one another. The green pigment in a blade of grass allows it to absorb vital energy from the sun, and it grows because, like I said, that energy simply cannot just dissapear. It has to go towards something. A blade of grass doesn't think for this reason - a blade of grass doesn't need to think.

An animal is kind of like an organic robot, in the sense that it does not reason why it does what it does, it merely has a standard protocol that it carries out without question. This is called instinct. A computer takes in information from the outside world, computes it, and puts out the programmed result. An animal does the same thing. It may as well be just as inanimate as the dirt we stand on; it only owns a brain because its part in the ecosystem is to digest air and food. But, it's different with humans - we have the same instinctive drives, the blind will to do this or accomplish that, but the difference is that we have the free will to take that burning desire any which way we please. We didn't inadvertently, blindly following our instincts, create the automobile. It was a concious effort, it was an idea that someone had because thier instincts told them that a tool was necessary. It was the free will that acted as the hands to the lump of clay, and molded the desire into something tangible.

I think of human beings as almost the 'brain cells' of the universe, because we house this unexplainable understanding. We embody free will and creative thought, and constantly attempt to understand so that we may bend the laws of space and time to become something more of a paradise, and it's intentional. In other words - if we are just as much part of the universe as anything else in the universe, save for the fact that we can choose to alter it, it may mean that we are the embodiment of the Universe beginning to understand itself. The more knowledge we attain, the more we can change, and all the while are inseperable from this web of everything. When a human reaches full adulthood, thier braincells cease to grow. From then on, if any die, they'll never grow back. And if we are in fact the braincells of the Universe, then once we reach a point at which it's no longer necessary to reproduce, in a sloppy attempt at randomly generating another being suitable for the enviornment, it will be because we understand so much.

In other words: At that point of understanding, the attainment of the goal of immortality, that will mean that the Universe is in full maturity. It's not to say that humans will inevitably control the universe, in fact, I mean quiet the opposite. It is merely our function as these braincells to attain and comprehend knowledge, just as the cells in your body could never understand thier own function... But if they did, they'd do a pretty damn good job, wouldn't they? If we continue to strive to acheive greatness and to become one with our surroundings, then eventually, we will reach such a singularity that we will be nothing but knowledge and understanding applied to the Universe itself - meaning that the Universe, having reached full comprehension, will become a God of everything that exists - itself.

Of course I'm not really being all that serious, it's just a funny concept I thought I'd throw out there. My apologies if it was a long boring read.