Wonderful. I’ve long wondered this. How can we be certain that galaxies, or the universe as a whole isn’t conscious? And if you assert that it’s not, what definition of explanation of consciousness could possibly exclude something like a star, a galaxy, or the universe? Most people think that our consciousness emerges from complex interactions between a huge number of non-conscious, mechanical units in the brain; but a galaxy, too, consists of a huge number of non-conscious, mechanical units.
I recall reading something a few years back about the surface of a black hole being a sort of tablet where information is stored, kind of like a hard disk in a computer, but with the ability to hold several orders of magnitude more information than any mechanical device we can come up with. I cannot for the life of me remember where I read this. Maybe in Brian Greene's _Hidden Reality_?
Wonderful. I’ve long wondered this. How can we be certain that galaxies, or the universe as a whole isn’t conscious? And if you assert that it’s not, what definition of explanation of consciousness could possibly exclude something like a star, a galaxy, or the universe? Most people think that our consciousness emerges from complex interactions between a huge number of non-conscious, mechanical units in the brain; but a galaxy, too, consists of a huge number of non-conscious, mechanical units.
LOVED THIS. I’ve been researching solar wind for a book and the sun fascinates me. Thanks for writing this.
Fascinating, various thoughts bloom now, thanks for sharing
I recall reading something a few years back about the surface of a black hole being a sort of tablet where information is stored, kind of like a hard disk in a computer, but with the ability to hold several orders of magnitude more information than any mechanical device we can come up with. I cannot for the life of me remember where I read this. Maybe in Brian Greene's _Hidden Reality_?