My realization moment really came when considering the implications that energy cannot be created or destroyed. I thought about how the only difference between a living body and a dead body comes down to the energy that animates it. I figured that energy IS or is connected to the soul, but since that energy can't be destroyed, that requires reincarnation of that energy.
If the universe is entropic, I wondered if life, through evolution, was an opposite force of extropy (stuff growing increasingly complex / higher energy).
That is more on the woo woo side, but I agree in the sense that it seems plausible.
In that sense, life would be an extension of god experiencing it's own creation for the purpose of that life evolving to become part of god.... implying the universe as a fractal.
I do believe that to be at least generally true.
My realization moment really came when considering the implications that energy cannot be created or destroyed. I thought about how the only difference between a living body and a dead body comes down to the energy that animates it. I figured that energy IS or is connected to the soul, but since that energy can't be destroyed, that requires reincarnation of that energy.
If the universe is entropic, I wondered if life, through evolution, was an opposite force of extropy (stuff growing increasingly complex / higher energy).
Wow! What wonderful deep thoughts are expressed in this whole thread.
I am grateful, for all contributions to this discussion! And what relief to find you expressing these!
Ever so often I am reading one of the responses, I hear Carl Sagan: We are a way for the Universe to know itself.
I would add: to know itself in a different way, through sentient experience. What a creative act!
That is more on the woo woo side, but I agree in the sense that it seems plausible.
In that sense, life would be an extension of god experiencing it's own creation for the purpose of that life evolving to become part of god.... implying the universe as a fractal.