Yes, our lives too dissipate; subject to the second law of thermodynamics we end in complete physical dissasembly, even at the particle level. I'm obviously stressing the Physics of the issue, though I do understand your point, and I even suspect that the two are connected (physics and concious existence) in some fundamental way.
But does anything remain in any sense of the word "thing"; is there a remaining level of organization at all? If not, the end must not wind up in a state of existence like that "before" the "big bang" (ie.does a new bang happen out of this state of high entropy and low energy?)
But physics also tells us of random fluctuations among all the uncollected remains, which is one theory of how the extreme order at the bang itself could have happened out of such quiet nothingness. And it suggests the possibility of a recycling of our universe into one newly born state of extremely low entropy.
Is there a physical basis for consciousness and life beyond our own dissapation into disorder? Might it lie in the probability of a "new" low entropy state born from those random fluctuations; does human life and even consciousness have any connection to the random fluctuations of the universe?
Though this seems a dry, mechanical resonse to you, really, I'm not frozen in a "sciene way of thinking". My graduate degrees lie in the humanities, not science.
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Yes, our lives too dissipate; subject to the second law of thermodynamics we end in complete physical dissasembly, even at the particle level. I'm obviously stressing the Physics of the issue, though I do understand your point, and I even suspect that the two are connected (physics and concious existence) in some fundamental way.
But does anything remain in any sense of the word "thing"; is there a remaining level of organization at all? If not, the end must not wind up in a state of existence like that "before" the "big bang" (ie.does a new bang happen out of this state of high entropy and low energy?)
But physics also tells us of random fluctuations among all the uncollected remains, which is one theory of how the extreme order at the bang itself could have happened out of such quiet nothingness. And it suggests the possibility of a recycling of our universe into one newly born state of extremely low entropy.
Is there a physical basis for consciousness and life beyond our own dissapation into disorder? Might it lie in the probability of a "new" low entropy state born from those random fluctuations; does human life and even consciousness have any connection to the random fluctuations of the universe?
Though this seems a dry, mechanical resonse to you, really, I'm not frozen in a "sciene way of thinking". My graduate degrees lie in the humanities, not science.