{"id":39,"date":"2008-09-20T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-09-20T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:45:55","slug":"critical-spark-of-intelligence-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Critical Spark of Intelligence Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so this may seem wacky, but I&#8217;ve got a sneaking suspicion that the same place that God came from may have an analogy in this dimension or realm or whatever it is that we live in.<\/p>\n<p>You ever watched a campfire that has gone out? The wind may stir for a bit and blow on the hot coals. Then suddenly, ignition occurs &#8211; flames jump out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>What about nucleur reactions. A mass of plutonium or uranium or whatever is sitting there all nice and happy. Doesn&#8217;t really seem to do a whole lot until just the right amount of additional neutrons are added to the mix &#8211; perhaps a catalyst , and then boom &#8211; 200,000 lives extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left wondering is there is a similar phenomenon within the realm of intelligence? For example, could there be a pile of trillions upon quadrillions of circuits, that could eventually reach &#8220;awareness&#8221;. Sort of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandelbrot_set\">mandelbrot set <\/a>of awareness within our dimension. Sort of like that old story about a guy dreaming that he was dreaming and woke up within his dream? If you don&#8217;t get that, perhaps watch the movie Existenz or Jacob&#8217;s Ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so this may seem wacky, but I&#8217;ve got a sneaking suspicion that the same place that God came from may have an analogy in this dimension or realm or whatever it is that we live in. You ever watched a campfire that has gone out? The wind may stir for a bit and blow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystic","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}