When I was a kid I had a particularly frightening encounter with a spirit. The thing manifested itself first as a voice that whispered loudly to me from inside my pillow. Afterwards I began to see and hear things that weren’t quite there. Worst still, I started gaining perceptions of things I had no natural way of perceiving. I believe in ghosts based on my experiences. I don’t think what happened was anything magical or extra-scientific. I believe my experiences are easily explainable as a form of enhanced perception that, IMHO, is more common to children for reasons I have no formal understanding of. I think that as I move closer to death, I push away my connection to that realm. I fight it more. So, now I can’t sense dead people, but I still believe they exist. Likewise, the existence of Aliens seems to me to be a given, and people just won’t accept it. So we are left with a particular quandary: Do we dismiss the existence of these things that are outside our understanding simply because there is no evidence, or do we accept that there are things in life that we don’t understand but can still be real.
I know ghosts are real. I believe in life after death. Here’s why: In a finite universe there is a finite amount of energy that powers the expansion of said universe–unless we go with the dark energy as extra-universal energy theory. Given that the energy cannot be created or destroyed and that energy powers life, it stands to reason that the energy that created us will continue on. Now, reaching past the energy question into the realm of memory, we are left to consider if what we call ‘life’ is merely a collection of memories. Will those survive the cessation of flesh? I can’t say. I can hope and dream that our memories are more than a result of electrochemical impulse and imprint. I have reason to believe both sides. On the one hand, even snowflakes posses uniquely encoded patterns that suggest that once created in the ‘verse, those patterns cannot be repeated, meaning they are somehow preserved. On the other hand, pi supposedly holds every number combination in existence and as such would serve as that record keeping format.
Which brings me to Aliens. Back to the pi connection, if our DNA sequence is encoded into pi, it is reasonable to suspect that the sequence for every possible organism exists in that record and, if we can decode start and stop points (I suggest we start with our own general DNA string), we could find an alien’s sequence and recode it to create an alien. Crazy talk for sure, but is it any more crazy than believing a really, really old white guy with an epic beard built the world in 7 days?
If most of the world is willing to accept the existence of God, why then is the existence of a separate species so hard to swallow?
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