(September 14, 2014 at 8:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So you're 80% sure that there is intellignece or influence, yadda yadda- based upon things which you have just stated have nothing to do with intelligence or influence?
Mystifying, amigo.
An alternative theory is that nothing you just described is actually at the core of your wonderings, that it's just overlay on something else. Those things seem to fit, to you, with some other proposition which is, more accurately, the source of your level of certainty.
Possibly. Like I said, I recognize my personal experiences (through "spiritual-type practices") have played a part in my pursuits. I'm not going to deny that.
But I don't think that negates what I see. My assumption would be that if life operates in such a way that it is similar to something that (in it's simplest forms) intelligent life (humans) has created here, than "intelligence" (or consciousness, I tend to think of it) could be actively involved with the design and operations of life as we know it.
As far as my statement that I could not describe what the intelligence or consciousness is, that would be just guessing. Perhaps some sort of group/shared consciousness, or I don't know... I can't even say I can speculate because I think it's so beyond current understanding or words to describe. Maybe someday.
