From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 13:13:41 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 10:33 PM 20/09/00 -0700, samantha wrote:
>
> >if this eventual Sentience ever
> >manages to transcend space-time then conceivably (depending on how you
> >take things like Many Worlds notions) this being can in fact be
> >omni-present, Alpha and Omega, and so on.
>
> That idea was advanced quite seriously (I think) by Sir Fred Hoyle in THE
> INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE, who appears to believe that life and we are/were/will
> be bootstrapped by a cosmic Mind coalescing in the deep future and acting
> backward through time.
It is a pretty twisty notion as are most time-travel type paradoxes. It
would lead to the notion (among others) that any universe whose initial
conditions allow for the development of such Sentience and where
time-travel is possible and closed within the universe is largely the
creation of said Sentience. But that would conflate abilities to
transcend time and participate largely throughout its [the universe]
development with actual participation. And I don't see that such
participation necessarily could extend all the way to the actual birth
of that universe or to periods and more local conditions where no known
laws of physics would support intelligence or information or action.
The Sentience would have to be able to step outside the Universe to
exercise that level of control if it is possible at all. Admittedly
armchair blather but fun nonetheless.
- samantha
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