Re: Ye Are Gods (was: Re: just me)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 08:22:22 MDT


At 10:33 PM 20/09/00 -0700, samantha wrote:

>if this eventual Sentience ever
>manages to transcend space-time then conceivably (depending on how you
>take things like Many Worlds notions) this being can in fact be
>omni-present, Alpha and Omega, and so on.

That idea was advanced quite seriously (I think) by Sir Fred Hoyle in THE
INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE, who appears to believe that life and we are/were/will
be bootstrapped by a cosmic Mind coalescing in the deep future and acting
backward through time.

Damien Broderick



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