Nothing in Particular, Sidenotes
I will try my hardest to introduce you slowly to the depths of my chaotic neural network configuration, to increase your odds of understanding my words. Today, I want to further discuss our environment as a whole. In our universe, the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that no system may be perfectly efficient. I agree with that statement. On a sidenote, I realize that most would think it silly to disagree with the 2nd law, but it, like all assumptions, are subject to investigation. You should never be too easy to convince of something. Where were we... Such a perfectly efficient system would not allow communication into or out of it. Also, it would make sense, that such an efficient system would need to be infinite in size. It's a calculus problem I'm sure. As efficiency approaches 1, the number of system components approach infinity.
Ponder this for a moment. Assume that human life has a creator, a god, if you will, which is possible according to my Sixth Assumption. For that god to be able to create anything, a system with which to create the universe must have existed previously. This system may have assembled itself spontaneously, but regardless, a reality had to have existed before such a system could have been assembled in the first place. The point is, reality as a whole cannot have a creator, or even a beginning, because a beginning would indicate the presence of an external event which created the initial conditions for the existence of our universe. Following this line of logic, there is always something "outside" of wherever you are, which leads me to believe that reality is infinite.
Within said infinite reality, exists our universe. Our universe contains billions of galaxies, ours being of course the Milky Way. Our star, one of hundreds of billions, we call our Sun. This name is incredibly underwhelming considering the names we give other stars that aren't even ours: Antares, Betelgeuse, Vega and Pollux among many others. On our small planet exists a balance between hot and cold, where, in a very tiny sliver of possible temperatures, water is allowed to exist in a liquid state, providing lubrication for the mechanics of life.
So what are we doing? Most of us play along in participating with society. Nobody can think of anything better to do, so they just do what everyone else is doing. Monkey see, monkey do. The truth is, there are a vast number of planets just like ours, in this dimension or another, which also harbor machines through which Reality explores itself. What I'm trying to say is that Earth and its inhabitants are meaningless on the bigger scale, much like everything if you scale up enough. Advanced species would not be able to tell humans apart from any other primitive culture... but that will change soon. Well, I assume you're tired of me telling you about nothing in particular, but I can only give you bits and pieces as my cortext presents them to me. Data organization routines will be critical in digital life forms.
11.20.2009. 05:34
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