Dan Brown’s latest book - Origin
Where do we come from? Where are we heading?
A very interesting book that can lead
you to interesting reflections.
Here are some (the most
rewarding and interesting) excerpt from Dan Brown's book: Where do we come from? Where
are we going? - Our beginning and our destiny.
Let's be children again,
let's lie under the stars with our minds open to all possibilities. Let's be
like the explorers of ancient times, those who left everything behind and went
out into the wide ocean. Those who first saw the glimpse of a coast no one saw
before. Those who fell on their knees and were filled with the wonder that the
world was far greater than they imagined in their wildest imagination. All that
previously taken for granted was dissolved and destroyed with these new
discoveries.
Brain Operating System - How
are modern humans capable of drawing logical and analytical conclusions while
accepting religious beliefs that should be crumbled at least rationally? The
answer turns out to be quite simple - the human brain. Why does it believe what it
believes in? The brain has an operating system like an organic computer. A regulatory
framework that organizes and sorts the chaotic flows it recieves throughout the
day. Words, a song that sticks, a siren, the taste of chocolate. As you can
probably imagine, it infinitely uses a variety of information of different
kinds, and the brain must try to make a living. In fact, one's perception of
reality is defined by the brain's operating system. Unfortunately, we have been
playing a joke, because the programmed human brain had a bad sense of humor. In
other words, it is not our fault that we believe in the sources we believe in.
Astrological charts, Jesus walking on water, Founder of Scientology L Ron
Hubbard, Egyptian God Osiris, Hindu lighthouse elephant god Ganesha and a
marble statue of Virgin Mary who cried physical tears. Combating Chaos, Creating
Order.
And as a programmer, I have to ask myself what kind of bizarre
operating system would come to such illogical conclusions? If we could look
into the human brain and interpret its systems, we would find something like
this: fight chaos, create order. This is the basis of our brain programming.
Our operation to organize is enrolled in our DNA. Data Vacuum, Faith, Religion
and Science - For the human brain, any answer is better than no answer. We feel
a great discomfort when we face insufficient data. So our brains begin to
invent the facts. Which at least gives an illusion of order and therefore
creates a myriad of philosophis and mythologies and religions. To convince us
that in any case there is order and reason in the invisible world.
Because not all religions
give the same answer, large groups of people can start fighting against each other
over which answers they regard as correct and which version of God is the only
true one. Religion has always had exclusive rights to spiritual issues. Something
that makes us not question its teachings, even when they seem to be in
violation of common sense. But faith means by definition that one trusts
something that can not be seen or touched. Accepting some beliefs as facts, even
though you do not have empirical evidence for it. In turn, it understands that
we choose to believe in different things, because there is no universal truth.
Research is the true opposite of belief. Research is based on finding physical
evidence of what has not yet been known, and replacing superstitions and
misconceptions in favor of concrete facts.
The age of religion is
(hopefully?) nearing its end, and the tides of science are beginning to grow. Life and
Entropy - How did life evolve? It's not possible to answer that question and
that's the point. As for the creation process, going over the threshold where
dead chemicals form living organisms, science fails to give us an answer. There
are no mechanisms in chemistry that explain how life evolved. In fact, the very idea that cells would merge and form life forms is in direct conflict with the
law of entropy.
Entropy is just a finer way of saying things go from order to
chaos. In scientific language, we usually say that an organized system will
inevitably sooner or later collapse. "I've just put together millions of
sand grains into a castle. Now let's see what the universe has to say about
that matter. Just a few seconds later, a wave rinses across the beach and
flushes away the castle. Yes, the universe found my ordered sand grains and took
control over them, spread them out over the sand. That's how entropy works."
Waves rolling over the beach never form the sand to a castle. Entropy dissolves
structure. Sandcastles never occur spontaneously in this universe, they just
disappear.When you heat coffee and remove a hot-hot cup from a microwave, you
focus on heat energy in a cup. If you put the cup on the kitchen counter and
allow it to stand for one hour, the heat disappears into the room and distributes it evenly. Just like sand on a beach. Entropy again, and the process is
irreversible. No matter how long you wait, the universe will never heat the coffee
again, nor repair a broken egg or build a downcast sand castle.
We live in a universe that
is entropic by nature. A host whose physical laws are built by chance, not
order (or is there something behind this phenomenon that creates order?). So
the question is, how can lifeless chemicals in some magical way organize
themselves into complex compounds of life forms?
The Purpose of the Universe
- (Kirch describes a theory of Jeremy England) ... The universe was driven by a
single purpose, a goal of spreading energy. One could easily say that when the
universe found areas of focused energy it spread that energy. The classic
example was what Kirsch mentioned, the coffee cup on the kitchen counter. The
coffee always cooled by sending out the heat to other molecules in the room,
according to the second principle of thermodynamics. "We know that the
universe wants entropy (disorder). Simply put, matter is self-organizing in
order to better disseminate energy. In order to achieve disorder, nature
creates small pockets of order. These pockets are used to escalate the chaos of
a system and thereby increase the entropy factor. In other words, the laws of
physics created mechanisms to disperse energy. Lightning sends away the energy
of the cloud into the earth, spread it out, thus increasing the system's
general entropy. Or Big Bang. A violent proliferation of power. What does
entropy have to do with the beginning of life? Well, it turns out that life is
an extremely effective tool for spreading energy. For example, a tree absorbs
the intense energy of the sun. Uses it to grow, then emits infrared light. A
much less focused form of energy. Photosynthesis is an extremely effective
entropy machine. The concentrated energy of the sun is dissolved and weakened
by the tree, thus creating a general increase in the universe's entropy. The
same can be said about all living organisms.
Sometimes people consume
organized matter in the form of food, then transforms it into energy, and then
sends back heat energy. In general, I would say life is not subject to the laws
of physics, but life began because of these laws. "When strong sunlight
hit a piece of fertile soil, the physical laws of the earth would create a
flower as a means to disperse that energy.
If sulfur is ejected down in the
depths of the ocean it will create areas of boiling water and life would occur in
these places and spread the energy. If Professor England's theory is correct,
then the entire cosmos operating system could be summarized in one single
command - propagate energy.
As for spirituality, I consider this theory
as agnostic. I'm just trying to describe how it's in the universe. The
spiritual conclusions I leave to priests and philosophers.
Life, codes, patterns and DNA
Physics laws alone can give rise to life. Edmund's discovery was
fascinating and definitely explosive, but for Langdon it gave rise to a
supplementary question that he was surprised to observe that no-one asked: If
the laws of physics are so powerful that they can create life, who created the
laws?
To me the question of God or who/what
created life, lies in understanding the difference between codes and patterns. Codes
and patterns are two very different things. Most people mix them
together and are confused. A pattern is a distinctly organized sequence or
structure. Patterns are found everywhere in nature, the spiral-shaped flowering
bushes of the sunflower, the hexagonal cells of the bees honeycomb, the
circular rings on the water when a fish speaks and so forth.
Codes
are special, codes must contain information. They have to do something
more than just form a pattern. Codes must transfer facts and information. Examples
of codes are 1) written languages 2)music notes 3) mathematical equations 4) data
languages and even 5) simple symbols like the crucifix. All of these
examples can convey a message in a way that spiral-growing sunflower seeds can
not. The
other difference between codes and patterns is that codes do not occur
spontaneously in the world. Music notes do not grow on trees and
symbols do not draw themselves in the sand. A code is a fully conscious idea of
intelligence. Codes do not grow organically, they must be created. The
genetic code, it's a paradox. The genetic code obviously contained
information, specific instructions on how to build organisms. Conclusion: DNA
has been created by an intelligent consciousness!
Ever since I was a child, I
have suspeted that there is a consciousness behind the universe. When I
study the accuracy of mathematics, the reliability of the physics and the symmetry
of cosmos, it does not feel like it's a cold and unfeeling science I see. But
the footprint of something alive. Shadow of a greater force we can not understand.
Man has created a number of codes - the alphabet, the numbers and symbols of mathematics and the tones of music. So who / what created the DNA code? Who created the atoms, which are a code for chemistry?
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