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January 28, 2008

Infinite Free-Floating Brains

From the NYTimes:

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?

"The basic problem is that across the eons of time, the standard theories suggest, the universe can recur over and over again in an endless cycle of big bangs, but it's hard for nature to make a whole universe. It's much easier to make fragments of one, like planets, yourself maybe in a spacesuit or even - in the most absurd and troubling example - a naked brain floating in space. Nature tends to do what is easiest, from the standpoint of energy and probability. And so these fragments - in particular the brains - would appear far more frequently than real full-fledged universes, or than us. Or they might be us."

I love that things like this are so fascinating and yet make almost no sense to me. Other than they are fascinating (and they illustrated the sad limits to my understanding of such things...or maybe not, since I may just be a floating brain creating this reality, of which this floating-brain theory may just be a construct).

However, it seems that there is some may be some truth to one of my ignorant suppositions about reincarnation...or at least people smarter than I are discussing it:

"Over the course of eternity, [Linde] said, anything is possible. After some Big Bang in the far future, he said, 'it's possible that you yourself will re-emerge. Eventually you will appear with your table and your computer.'"

Clampants | January 28, 2008 01:05 PM