RE: Does the universe care?
July 2, 2014 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2014 at 10:45 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 29, 2014 at 7:05 pm)Cato Wrote:(June 29, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Logisch Wrote: Please elaborate, the reason I posted this is to sort of ponder on the thought and get some other opinions and ideas and open a line of discussion. Thank you for the response.
The fallacy of composition is when someone infers something of the whole when it is only true of some part. In this case you are trying to imbue the entire universe with a consciousness and ability to care because a part of the universe possesses consciousness. There is absolutely no reason to accept the proposition 'the universe is conscious'.
Yet we say so and so in conscious, when 99% of that person carries on no function that can even remotely be said to approximate the appearance of consciousness.
We consider emergent properties of a small fraction of the structures within just one organ of the organism with the organism as being enough to say the organism as a whole exhibit this same property.
The space, time, planets, and stars do not contemplate themselves or anything else, just as your fingers and toes do not contemplate themselves. But we deem humans, toes and all, to be contemplating and self aware organisms, So we are part of the universe, it doesn't seem absurd to say ours is a contemplating and self aware universe.