[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[The Avantguardian]

--- scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:

> Robert M. Wald [1][2], in his recent paper "The
> Arrow 
> of Time and the Initial Conditions of the Universe"
> [3], 
> reminds us that the state of the very early universe
> 
> was one of very low entropy. At the end of the paper
> 
> he suggests that he lacks an answer, exactly like
> Boltzmann
> many and many decades ago, as to why this is the
> case.
> But he is also suggesting not to look at dynamics 
> (i.e. inflation) and philosophy (i.e. anthropic
> principles) 
> for a solution of this Boltzmann's 'paradox' (early
> universe 
> full of randomness ... at global low entropy state).

Might I posit the Einstein hypothesis to explain the
Boltzmann paradox. The Einstein hypothesis is simply
that the early high randomness low entropy state of
the universe corresponded to the universe being ALIVE
at that stage.

Your condition of high energy and thermal activity in
a suprisingly low entropy system far from equilibrium
yet stably so has a parallel in biology: the cell.
What if the universe was once all a single possibly
intelligent being? Then as its entropy increased, the
uberbeing degenerated into small isolated subsystems
that still used the thermodynamic cycles of the
original uberbeing. Like a zygote undergoing cleavage,
cell division, and apoptosis.

What if God didn't create us... what if God broke
himself into little pieces and BECAME us like Brahma
in hinduism.

I choose to call it the Einstein Hypothesis because
Einstein was, like myself, a pantheist. He believed
the universe was a rational being synonymous with God. 

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson

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