RE: Brain Cells and the Universe
February 6, 2013 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2013 at 5:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 3, 2013 at 4:50 am)apophenia Wrote: Somewhere, probably in the notes that I lost last fall, I had a reference to the idea that as the universe evolves, because of the effect of expansion combined with the nature of gravity and the distribution of matter, travel between clusters of intelligence (presumably intelligent civilizations) will come to be constrained along filaments like the axons and dendrites in neoronal substrates, leaving vast expanses of space completely dead, save for a constant river of information traveling two and from the clusters on these filaments.
It would be interesting to contemplate whether, over periods of tens to hundred, or even thousands of billions of years, the universe as a whole would come to exhibit some emergent property on a very large scale as a result of advanced -therefore powerful - civilizations exchanging material and information along there filements, in a manner vaguely analogous to an organism exhibiting emergent behavioral properties as a result of information flow along its nerves.
