[michellemfry]

From The Memory Exhibition

Memories are constantly being formulated, accessed, and filtered by the brain. Fleeting electrochemical connections made between brain cells help us remember the thoughts, skills, experiences and knowledge that make each of us unique.

One hundred billion brain cells form the cortex. Responsible for highest level of cognition, these cells include all thought and memory.

A working memory for sights, sounds, and feelings.
A long term memory transfers newly gained information into permanent memory.
A skill memory exists for storing skill memories and refining the coordination and sequence of your movements.

[michellemfry]

You have raised an interesting area to explore. The closest thing we have to what you describe is something like gravity. But that isn't it, either. Between matter and anti-matter? I'm thinking.
Ignore the memory exhibition thing.

[HappytheStripper]

thats quite simple - it is a matter of energy - free flowing energy which can be converted into force and kinetic energy from simply nothing

We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of energy that the universe can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction...where attention goes, energy flows...influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our universe

[Rufus]

You are sounding like a realist. Electromagnetic indeed. Thankyou for the last three points though, I have been concerned about the myriad of random generators that appear to be in the brain...but then I'm sounding like an Idealist... Particle accelerators have failed to isolate matter from energy, string theorists have devised such a tiny replacement for the particle that sentient matter will never be found. With no matter there can only be energy, try to think on that level for a moment, energy and matter must be inseparable. Ask yourself what that means. We have been thinking that the cyclotrons could remove matter from it's energy constituent. We have defined energy as the movement of matter. No matter means there is no energy either...at least not as we know it today.

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[Rufus]

Originally Posted by HappytheStripper thats quite simple - it is a matter of energy - free flowing energy which can be converted into force and kinetic energy from simply nothing We now experience that we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of energy that the universe can sense and intuit. Moreover, we humans can project our energy by focusing our attention in the desired direction...where attention goes, energy flows...influencing other energy systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in our universe

What you are saying is not a belief but rather it is a decision not to believe in the power of matter. It being the creator of us as opposed to us being the daily creator of us. When you sleep you die and when you awake you remake your self in the concert with others.

[HappytheStripper]

God by definition is the uncreated creator of the universe. The existence of God is not enough to understand the universe.

Everything which has a beginning has a cause. The universe has a beginning.
Therefore the universe has a cause.... God, unlike the universe, had no beginning, so doesn’t need a cause....

The universe (including time itself) can be shown to have had a beginning. It is unreasonable to believe something could begin to exist without a cause.

God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn’t need a cause.

Show that it is logically invalid....

[Mr. Nobody]

We are very close to explaining this cosmos from an event at a beginning of our time. Call it the perfect alignment of matter's motion or the unfolding of pure energy within the larger stage of infinity. This will be defined through the laws of physics and does not need a creator.
The source of original matter or energy within infinity can not be explained. And it needs no interpretation. It appears that this source does not have free will, akin to a creator, but is itself subject to malleable laws. I hypothesize that as we penetrate ever deeper into the beginnings of this universe, beyond inflation, we will find only 2 principles at work:
Evolution and Anthropy. Evolution will show islands of matter/energy transforming into ever increasing organization with the overall disorder still increasing, therefore creating an ever increasing entropy gap. This organization, the gap of order versus disorder gave rise to consciousness and awareness as we began to stand out from our environment. Awareness caused the knowledge of death. With death came religion and the invention of a separate divinity, as the creator and destroyer of everything, our God. God can not create nor destroy everything, because that everything includes God. God just simply means the all inclusive without reason, judgement, consciousness nor cause.
The anthropic principle then explains the rest. We are here, because we think of being here.

[HappytheStripper]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody We are here, because we think of being here.

And believe you me - if i had read the brochure for this short but sweet journey through life - I woulda stayed behind

"LIFE ISNT LIKE IT SAID IN THE BROCHURE"

[michellemfry]

Entropy and Anthropy seem more suited to beginnings than evolution and anthropy. At the beginning, entropy has nowhere to go but increase, which it does. Anthropy provides an observer to that increase in entropy.

[Mr. Nobody]

Evolution provides for change over time. Evolution caused the observer. The observer then recognizes his place in the universe. Anthropy and evolution go hand in hand.
Evolution includes other multiverses, where the principles of construction and physical laws may differ.
Evolution is universal and required for the existence of the observer.
So maybe it is 3:
Entropy causes Evolution and Anthropy. Evolution and anthropy define life. Life is the recognition of organization against disorder