(November 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: A proof of design I believe is consciousness. I don't believe evolution can account for consciousness appearing out of non-conscious. There is no process leading from one to other. There has to be a step where there is no consciousness and then there is consciousness, but that is too complex for it to happen by a mutation, so the step will never happen.
I agree. I think it would require some kind of an intelligent process to cause matter to go from inanimate to animate (even through evolution which I believe in).
One explanation is that there may be a self-referential property in the laws of nature which allows matter to perceive itself. So, if that is true, then there is a possibility that even reality is self-referential in a similar way to human consciousness (thus making it "self-aware"). Again, this is just a hypothesis, but not provable. Here's a passage from an article that I was skimming through:
Quote:This new physics is emerging from a radically different comprehension of the nature of reality, namely that of a self-referential information system, where the information is semantic and active, that is, information that has meaning in the system itself, and because of that the system evolves in a manner determined by that meaning, and so is experienced by the system. This amounts to the assertion that reality is self-aware at all levels, though clearly that self-awareness is of a very limited form in most systems, but is there even at the level of quantum matter.
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Having said that, welcome to the forum. Feel free to post your thoughts and participate in discussions any time.
