Humans exist in the universe. We are composed of components of the universe. We are made of atoms, just as rocks, planets, stars, galaxies are. The difference between us and all the other stuff is that we are self aware.
Given that we are aware of ourselves and the universe, and we are composed of the matter and energy of the universe, can it be said that the universe is self aware?
2006-07-13 13:56:30 · 7 answers · asked by vaporhut 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a little like the Incompleteness Theorem but easier to solve because we are not the whole universe.
We may be that unit of the universe that is capable of awareness (like the brain is to the human body) but we are not the ENTIRE universe (anymore than the brain is also every nerve cell and hair follicle on the body).
So the problem can be solved: the universe as a whole can be aware of whatever we can be aware of to the extent that we can communicate that knowledge back to the universe as a whole.
2006-07-13 14:10:48 · answer #1 · answered by natteringnabob 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ineteresting thought, but I don't think so, no. We're such a small part of the universe that I don't think we count so heavily. If a worm burrows into and feeds on a corpse is that corpse now alive, simply because it has a living thing made from it, and inside it? Is the universe aware simply because it has beings who are aware, made from it, and inside it?
2006-07-13 14:04:51 · answer #2 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awareness is for living things but not all living have self-awareness. Your question has a corollary: Is the universe a living thing? This question needs to be dealt with first before your question can be answered.
2006-07-13 14:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by Romeo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is interesting to think that we might all be minute components engaged in the universe's efforts to understand itself.
2006-07-13 14:04:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that seems to me like my cat thinking that she's hidden because she can't see me. Just because we are aware of something does not mean it's aware of us, or anything at all.
2006-07-13 14:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its always a possiblity its no longer a sure or no answer, cos we dont understand yet id say its an truly in all probability probability yet our body has its position in issues, we are unsleeping and conscious with the biology, so no matter if we are with out it, we dont understand that, we purely understand we are with it
2016-12-01 06:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm im not sure
2006-07-13 13:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋