RE: FallentoReason 2.0
November 21, 2012 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2012 at 1:06 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 21, 2012 at 11:13 am)Kirbmarc Wrote: Is it possible that the universe was designed for us? Maybe. But evidence suggests that we were designed by the universe and for the universe, through evolution and selection.
It is the thought that we were designed by the universe that leads some to suppose a deist. I don't personally.
Sometimes we marvel at the way we 'fit' in the grand scheme. Of course the grand scheme is just the way everything is arrayed in relationship to everything else, as it must be, given its interactive properties. So we too 'fit', as we must, having come into being in relationship to our surroundings and as the continuation of a line DNA.
Though I don't think of there being any cosmic consciousness nexus out there directing everything, there have been times when I have pondered being a part of it all. Collectively we and the rest of the stuff of the cosmos have become what we are and are on our way to becoming something. While I don't feel I have any say in all this I can sometimes identify with being a part of it all. Since I have consciousness and intention when I think of the all of which I'm a part, it is natural to imagine this all being like me in those ways. In a sense, because I am a part of it all and I am aware of this all that we are, the universe is aware of itself through creatures such as ourselves. I don't, however, think that there is any control center that can tap into our awareness to direct or redirect what it is we are becoming. Nothing is in charge but it all continues to unfold as it does regardless. I guess we're just witnesses to it all and that's pretty special all by itself.
