Chapter 27: I am the Universe
The yellow clouds are shaking the sun for thousands of miles, and the north wind blows the geese and snow.
Don’t worry about having no friends in the future, and no one in the world knows you.
——Gao Shi's "Farewell to Dong Da"
This parting poem is very heroic.
The vitality of bacteria and viruses is really tenacious.
There is basically no place on earth where they cannot live.
Fossil bacteria 600 million years ago can be resurrected.
Can all elements on Mendeleev's periodic table form life?
If so, what would it look like?
It's amazing to think about it.
The seeds of life may originate outside the Milky Way.
"If you want to talk about the origin of life, you might as well talk about the origin of elements, because the two are the same."
Is it because of quantitative change that results in qualitative change?
"Does nature follow a universal law to create appearance? A fixed rhythm and cycle can be found throughout the biological and non-biological worlds."
There are exceptions in everything. Nature is also limited by its own resources. It can only be created using existing resources. Of course, it also includes foreign resources such as asteroids.
"Think of atoms as the most tiniest electronic computer."
So what about electronics?
"Without a chemical memory library, how could the small droplet know that it would crystallize into hexagonal snowflakes?"
interesting.
"What a detailed image of a future plant is buried in a seed! How huge potential is stored in an acorn that allows him to grow into a tall oak tree!"
The same goes for fertilized eggs. Imagine whales and elephants.
"Does the atom contain the original mind?"
I really never thought about how incredible it would be if there were.
"The great philosopher Democritus said: There are marks of thinking on the basic matter of the universe."
After exploring the encyclopedia, he also had a point of view: "Man is a small universe."
"An ancient belief in the East is that everything is alive and conscious in the vast universe."
All things are animated.
"A rare Tibetan document mentions: Spirit is the final sublimation of matter, and matter is the crystallization of spirit."
This view is very fresh and strange.
"Thomas Mann interprets consciousness as the intention of nature to listen to its own voice, which nuclear life wants to gain self-knowledge. This idea was beautifully expressed by the British poet Shelley:
I'm a wise eye,
The universe uses me to observe itself and recognize its divinity.”
I checked it online and found that Thomas Mann is a German writer. I have read the masterpiece "The Devil Mountain".
But it is probably a translation problem and I don't understand it very well.
"Life has a goal in self-improvement - that is, its ultimate understanding of itself."
A bit philosophical: know yourself.
"As a result of 10 billion years of evolution, the universe has gradually become able to recognize itself."
It's hard to say whether the universe has self-awareness.
"The potential to form the mind has long been included in the atoms."
But why do atoms have no intelligence? Or wisdom?
"We have intelligence, and what we have must be included in the cause of the creation of the world."
"The most unreasonable principle is that elements without intelligence can actually produce intelligence."
Is this what it means to create something out of nothing?
“Life is a game of God.”
——"Wulnerable Kawato Tomosaki"
Tu Lin wore white shorts like a baby.
Chapter completed!