RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 12, 2014 at 9:38 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 6:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote: A singularity is a very strange mathematical and philosophical beast. A true Big Bang-type singularity is essentially a non-conscious deity: existent but having no beginning, not created but having all existent things arise from it etc.
How so? Deities are by definition conscious beings. They act and have values. Further, by this logic I could say reality itself is a deity.
Further, the singularity is a large part of why we know the current Big Bang model is incomplete in some way, namely that General Relativity goes out the window resulting in infinities.
Quote:If there is something intrinsic to all matter that allows for some kind of consciousness, then I'd say a singularity is dangerously close to a Deity. I don't know how you'd ever determine at what level mind is matter, or supervenes on forms of matter, or kinds of matter, or only on specific kinds of information flow, etc. This is because we only know of one form, one kind of matter, and one kind of information flow that gives consciousness-- our own.
