Not exact matches
consciousness is present in all
matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level
of existence varies with evolution,
highest is that
of living things, at the top is us humans because
of the biological nature
of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the
highest level
of complexity
I do not take this lightly, but I refer such critics to the definition
of matter above, remind them that I am trying to summarize a Bergsonian view (not entirely my own), and ask them to consider another law
of thermodynamics, the law
of entropy; and ask why (unless there is something dead or inert that resists the development
of higher forms
of complexity) should systems tend towards an equalized distribution
of energy in spacetime?
By this he meant that although inorganic
matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure
of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line
of cosmic death) organic
matter, life, had a reverse drive for
higher and
higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.
Why should we not simply define Life as the specific property
of Matter, the Stuff
of the Universe, carried by evolution into the zone
of highest complexity?
Despite their vastness and splendor the stars can not carry the evolution
of matter much beyond the atomic series: it is only on the very humble planets, on them alone, that the mysterious ascent
of the world into the sphere
of high complexity has a chance to take place.
Moreover up to a point its progress becomes measurable: for, as observation shows, it is the nature
of Matter, when raised corpuscularly to a very
high degree
of complexity, to become centrated and interiorized — that is to say, to endow itself with Consciousness.
«A healthy brain has
high entropy, but people with injuries to the white
matter from trauma may lose some
of that
complexity and have less entropy,» she explained.
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of complexity.
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