Dissociative identity disorder. I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, a condition that is recognized by some psychiatrists but not universally accepted within the field.
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The universe was created. Not suggesting any particular creation account, just mathematically it makes more sense that it wasn't random. And anyone who believes in things like a cyclic universe or infinite universes to explain it is just afraid of being associated with religion (as we have no real evidence to support those theories).
I personally think there has to be a loop of some kind. It exists because it was made, and its creation results in the creation of its makers.
Like it's all just a strange paradox.
I recently realized that the concept of “before” is an assumption we try to place on the universe without any basis that it exists outside the universe.
Like we are used to deterministic phenomena. Effect follows cause, something followed from something else. But that’s only true from our perspective inside universe.
The universe might not change at all from an outside perspective. What if every moment exists simultaneously? Only from within a moment does the concept of before and after make sense, but outside the universe there’s no concept of before. Everything just is.
Maybe it’s a ring, maybe it’s a multidimensional volume containing all the possible moments that could ever happen, maybe it’s bounded “temporally” in certain directions, maybe all the moments chain together in a crazy space filling curve such that all possible moments/worlds would eventually be reached if you started in one and kept following the curve to the next. But nothing has to actually be changing. The paths don’t need to change, they didn’t need to be created or destroyed.
Point is that the “before” of the universe might not exist at all even if the timelines within it start and stop at defined points. We feel the need for things to have a reason because that’s what we’re used to experiencing, but we’re only used to that due to the rules within our part of existence.
The concept of “change” or “creation” or “time” might not exist at all outside our experience.
Time likely doesn't exist outside our universe--at least not in the same way. I figure it might be like how we can write a book--the events in the story are all there on the pages at the same time, and yet there is a concept of time within the story that doesn't restrict our own in any way. The reader can move through it freely, and in some cases, choose different paths through it.
That being said, I still think our universe had a beginning. The fact that everything here is bound to time suggests the universe itself is temporally finite. But it's possible it originated from something outside of time, possibly without our concepts of beginnings.
In any case, my main point was on the origin of life within our universe. I believe, purely based on the math, that it's more likely that life was planned than that it happened randomly.
I know the oc prompt was an unscientific belief that can’t be shaken, but I’m curious, what math makes you think the universe or just life was planned?
I was raised religious but when I first started programming and wrote my own evolutionary algorithm, I realized that life existing makes as much sense as entropy does. If a process can replicate itself efficiently will you have more or less of it later in time? If two replicators require the same resources, which is more likely to survive? It’s randomness that makes this process efficient.
So I thought that perhaps a god set the events in motion to create life by evolution, but then I learned about Conoways Game of Life and other cellular automata, and I wrote my own particle life simulations and I realized that life-like things can arise from almost any system of random rules. The only caveat seems to be that some form of “energy” must be conserved if you want to avoid the situations where the system dies completely or reach an unchanging equilibrium.
And now, as I’m learning about neural nets (specifically the more biologically plausible ones) and the structure of human brains, it all seems so natural that things would arise the way they have.
Given enough time and how vast the universe is, I’d be more surprised to find that sentient life hadn’t evolved naturally on at least a few of the sextillions of planets and other celestial bodies in the universe.
So I’m curious what math you’re basing your opinion on
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