Why?

Existential musings with a scientific (pseudo-scientific?) bent.

Or possibly how? How does anything exist? Or why? If you believe in god/_God_, why does it exist? If you can reduce the universe to an infinite recursion, why does that exist? If you believe in a singular Big Bang, why did it, or the singularity that caused it, exist? In other words, in any schema there would be what can be referenced as a “beginning..” can it really hold? The only available answer is infinity. A continuum. There could never have been a true beginning. Can something without a beginning have an end? Did you begin? You were born. What does that mean? You were begun as (hopefully) a good evening/afternoon/ twice in the morning (before and after breakfast). You were created out of nourishment from the mother. What is food? It’s dead (formerly living biologically) creature. So you are what you eat. Therefore in some physical sense you are made out of non-living material. It becomes living in you via digestion which supplies to living cells the nutrients to multiply, continue to live, and provide whatever function they are created for. (Computers do the same thing.) The first life forms were probably just relatively simple chemical reactions in odd combinations causing the basic blocks of biology to come together. Think of what happens when you mix vinegar and baking soda. When they first mix, the life begins, and when they have finished mixing, the life ends. But you still have something there, the remnants? No, you merely have separate substances. Where did these substances come from? They are composed of tiny (physically) bits of energy. (These bits of energy are something like bits in a computer.) These bits of energy (particles) are basically three dimensional pixels. When you mix a couple of pixels on a computer monitor (red, green, blue I guess), you get a picture. When you mix several particles together you get a substance. Water, for instance. What are the particles made of? They are made of tinier particles. Where did these particles come from? Most likely they came from the Big Bang in some form. It’s also pretty likely that they are not the original substance, but instead one that has, like biological life, evolved. More specifically, the Big Bang was probably just one of many significant events in the continuum of the universe. An expansion along a particular set of dimensions (spacial and temporal). The particles (elements) were expulsed from a tiny (in spacial and temporal dimensions) singularity that suddenly lost its nerve, or more likely suddenly came into existence. They came out in one form each. Probably of a singular type that reacted with itself and the reactions caused new combinations of this particle to combine, some stable and others unstable. The unstable ones would change again, while the stable ones remained. Some small amount combined to form individual atoms, while the rest fly around random (some of which can and do penetrate solid materials all the time). So this sounds like a neat setup, right? The singularity suddenly exists in these dimensions, and in these dimensions it is unsuitable for a space to be so dense and rich in energy, so the energy has to move away from itself. The energy can basically be thought of as computational bits with the realization that each one is not merely a one or zero instead a stack of them to form its energy. Each bit is analog as well as digital. (This means ultimately there is a point at which digital becomes analog/good enough to be equivalent.) The universe is a quantum computer of itself. This means it calculates itself perpetually. The brain is also a computer. It receives input from the preexisting code of biology, as well as external stimuli via the organs and nervous system. But are our experiences “real?” Not exactly. They are a representation of our senses rendered/viewed internally. Think of it like this: a digital camera takes a picture of a flower. The light that is not absorbed hits the photoreceptor/charged coupled device, gets turned into digital information. That information passes through wires into presumably a buffer, which then feeds it through a program/chip that then changes the bits into the arrangement needed (the image format). The brain receives reflected light, focused via the lens, hits the retina, and then gets sent through the optic nerve. The brain (or more specifically certain structures of the brain adapted to do so) then reorder the data to be perceived, and then the mind perceives it. The brain is unique in that it is evolved to be adaptive. People might be born blind, or lose sight during life. The brain is made to be rewired depending on the process. Senses are particularly adaptable since they are very much dedicated processes of the brain; it makes sense for survival. The sight is lost, the brain rewires itself to be capable of more processing of the hearing/feeling/smelling senses. [sorry, I’ll try to finish this later, but for now I’ll throw it out there]

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