Yesterday I was wandering through the lab spaces at work (doing a partial safety compliance audit) and I began conversing with someone at work about this idea that most things are not that hard to comprehend in a natural sense but the existence of sentience is quite surprising and unnecessary.
The thought is that it is quite possible to explain in a cogent way that all life evolved from something (although how we end up with sexes just doesn't make sense to me) common, but how is it we are sitting around wondering about things to begin with?
The latest concept in cosmology is that the reason that the universe appears to be designed for life is that all possible universes exist and we would not be here to wonder about it if one of them were not capable of producing life (however unlikely it might be). This concept is based on the fact that there are many different quantum states that simultaneously exist and that when all of those states are taken into account one ends up with multiple universes.
It also occurred to me that it isn't a stretch to say that if it is possible for super intelligent beings to exist then they exist somewhere. It is doubtful that we are the most intelligent beings in the multiverse and it is without doubt that there are many more intelligent species out there. If self awareness is possible for us in particular as an emergent property out of matter (that is the materialist view) then isn't it possible that the multiverse itself has an emergent property of self awareness?
Although this is not God in the classical sense (God is pre-existent) it should be close enough to give atheists some real pause. Beings far surpassing us in abilities, intelligence, and power almost certainly exist if the multiverse concept is true (probably true even if it isn't). Since it would require infinite knowledge to conclusively say that there is no kind of deity, it is fundamentally untenable as a proposition simultaneously with the concept of an infinite multiverse.
Anyway, just musings....again probably non-sense but it entertains me.
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