From: Steve Davies (Steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 09:38:11 MDT
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From: Spudboy100@aol.com
To: extropians@extropy.org
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Book worth buying?
Samantha:
<<Cute, but it has the standard Creator problem. How was the Creator created?
>From what process did the original first SuperIntelligence spring? Unless
somehow the snake does indeed swallow its own tail, there must have been one
universe that was not created by some SI.
- samantha>>
Of course you are right on this issue. I purchased a book by Edward Harrison, a retired cosmologist from Amhurst or U. Mass. The original work was published in 1985. He viewed the universe as created by "angels" or as some of us might quip "godz" and I wonder if the author of this new book, Biocosm; was not also influenced by Andrei Linde, from Stanford? Harrison seemed to conclude that the universe was the mind. Perhaps looking at the universe in a different way then your typical astronomer, may help the species forward. This is my hope, anyways.
Maybe he'd read Philip Jose farmer's "World of Tiers" series, which I recall from the 1970s. That posited lots of "pocket universes" created by ultra-advanced beings. it then turns out the home universe of the ultra-advanced was itself an artificial one. I suppose the response is, yes, there has to be some 'original' universe where superbeings arose, but how then do we know what kind of universe we are in?
Steve Davies
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