Cosmic Intelligence (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Tuesday, June 09, 2009, 17:02 (5434 days ago) @ George Jelliss

David Turell in "The issue of chance" 7 June 23:42 wrote: "I believe my intelligence is a small part of the universal intelligence, and thus 'we are made in the image of god'."
 
> This is a common trope of religious believers and new-age thinkers. For me mind or intelligence means the activity of the human brain. The only form of intelligence we know is embodied in the physical brain. - I never knew I was new-age in my thinking. I invented my form of belief all by myself. I am very happy in my concepts. - Intelligence is a part of the emergent properties of the brain, but obviously part of the brain function. Newberg in his recent book, "How God Changes Your Brain", 2009, describes prayer and meditation occurring in certain areas of the brain, with some physical changes. Just as in childrens' brains, IQ can be increased by repetative activity, with increasing circuity. Einstein's brain was a centimeter thicker in a conceptual area of the parietal lobe. - On the other hand, what is consciousness? I don't know and I'm sure George doesn't either. It is certainly an emergent property of the brain. but I doubt that a future highly developed computer will ever have consciousness and be aware of itself in the way we are. - I should not have said universal intelligence, but more correctly universal consciousness. I suspect, like Nadeau and Kafatos, "The Non-Local Universe"', 1999, Oxford Press, that the 'mind' is somewhere in quantum entanglement, behind the 'wall of uncertainty'. Part of the mystery religions call God.