The Questions of Life

There are several basic questions about life that many people worry over from time to time. Since the answers have never been known, many suggestions have been offered, producing a great deal of confusion, especially with regard to religion. These issues have become so intense that wars have been fought over them, as institutions with preferred answers have built up and become politically powerful.

The most crucial moment in the history of the West occurred when Henry VIII of England rebelled against Rome and established his own Church of England. This may not seem crucial, but it was a successful revolt against the father, which has unending significance for humans. It eventually led to America.

So, these reflections suggest to me that, answers to these questions are valuable. I have answered to my satisfaction all of these questions by now, so I offer them here for any who find them useful. Some of the answers have come from other sources and some I have found out for myself. In general there are two basic questions, the first regards the origins of the universe and the second the origins of consciousness. These can be dealt with in the following way:

1. Where did the universe come from?

The universe appears to be, at this time, the result of the formation of a black hole in another universe, just as many black holes exist in our universe and represent gateways to other universes. Each universe is thought to embody slightly altered definitional parameters, such as the speed of light, from its parent. Thus, every iteration of universe, from small dead impossible ones to extremely active ones, such as ours, exists. Since this view conforms to the general design of the universe as we observe it, I think this likely to be a correct view. By this, I mean that the universe as we see it is spectral in nature. Every possible variation on every object, like light, appears to exist, either coincidentally or over time.

One complaint about this explanation is that it looks like begging the question since one is then entitled to ask where our parent universe came from. But, this would be like asking, were we red, where blue came from. Is there a top universe and a bottom one, or is the string infinite? This is one technical question among many that may or may not be answerable. This universal design would seem to prohibit any travel from one to another. We can devise mathematical models but are unlikely to ever have any direct experience.

2. Where did the earth come from?

It condensed from the same material that formed the sun.

3. What is life?

Life is aware matter.

4. Where did life come from?

Energy and carbon molecules combined to form living matter, probably a random event. Once in existence, life discovered conservatism or the desire to continue.

5. How can one understand religion?

Religion is the implementation of an ideology.

6. What is consciousness?

Consciousness is objective awareness. Awareness, that which separates the non living from the living, is likely to be an attribute of molecular complexity, like wetness or slipperyness.

7. What is the nature of morality?

What is moral is that which enhances the chances for survival of the species. What is immoral is the opposite.

8. What is the actual difference between the sexes?

The essential difference between the sexes is that the male believes that understanding is the surest path to survival and the female believes that relationships are. This means that the male will value the truth while females will try to create and maintain relationships and if the truth interferes, it will be discarded.

9. Why do we get old?

Entropy or the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law provides that everything in the universe is running down, as it were. This means that things are moving from a chaotic state to one that would be characterized as homogeneous or calm and evenly distributed, like a placid lake. We might equally well say that things are going from a feminine condition to a masculine one.

10. What is death?

The answer to this question is objectively unknowable.

11. Is a virus aware?

Yes.

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With the answers to these questions in hand, we would seem to have arrived at that moment in history that I predicted a few years ago. The moment when we would know everything in the sense that we know the answers to the basic questions and know how to find out the answers to any other question that might arise, except of course for the unknowable. The unknowable is that information that we cannot obtain because of the limits of our design. For instance, direct knowledge of another universe is unobtainable if that universe operates in a way that is different from our own.

It is also satisfying to realize that the concept of the universe of the Big Bang, starting a relatively short 13 billion years ago and perhaps coming to an end someday is shortsighted. That, in fact, the multiverse or infinite set of universes has existed always and will continue forever, and, in fact, time is only a feature of a universe. It appears that universes can be created by black holes of all sizes and that most of them will not result in galaxies or even stars. None the less many of them will and each will be parameterized differently resulting in dramatically different circumstances for the inhabitants, if there are any. Probably communications between universes, of any kind, is impossible though.

From this, it should be clear that the dimension of scale, much belittled by scientific rationalism, is really the most dominating dimension of all, and that, since all things are relative (a crucial feature of any well designed program), for the experiencers, neither time nor scale is locally meaningful. By which I mean to say, why should I care if time moves more rapidly in my universe than it does in some other, or how would I know if my universe was microscopic in size relative to another?

Thus, the universe is both constant and dynamic, as one would expect in a world in which, everything is, which means literally, everything, at this exact moment, exists. This is of course, a revelation, and therefore needs no proof.