It greatly annoys me to read questions like: "Are we alone in the Universe?" or "Is there someone out there?". To me there is no place for questions at all, life and intelligence are for me funamental component of the universe.
The start of the journey for evolution of life and Intelligence starts much before the large organic molecular were formed; the journey of evolution starts at the very beginning, where atoms come together to form molecules. The progressive formation of bigger and bigger molecules and then getting imbubed with property of life, the development from virus to bactreria to more complex life forms and imergence of higher level of Intelligence is part of the same journey. In fact the seed of life and intelligence is inherent in the property of the Universe itself, right from its inception* (*if ever there was a biginning to the universe). To make it like a scintific statement I can say, that there is an underlying Vector in all the workings of Nature, pointing towards creation and development of Intelligence. Nature's activity is not random, but it is Vectored to generate life and Intelligence. There exists a "Latent Intelligent Consciousness" in the fabric of Nature, which is being converted into 'Active Intelligence' all over the Univerese. It is interesting to note that if we replace the word 'God' with 'Nature', then the proclamation from religious books that "God created man in its own shape.', takes the form 'Nature Created Intelligene with its own essence.'
The Universe is vast beyond our ability of normal comprehension. There are millions of galaxies already detected by space telescopes, extending upto 13.5 billion light years. Each galaxy on the average has hundreads of billions of stars. But all this vastness is composed of the same building blocks of less than 100 stable elements. All this vastness is governed by the same physical laws; such as Graity, Quantum nature, Space-time duality, upper limit of speed, electro-magnetic waves and flow of ectrons as mode of enery trafer etc. Whatever is taking place in the universe are taking shape under the influence of these same forces. Our Sun and our planets are one of many billions of similar systems. There is nothing special about us. It is inconceivable that the same forces of nature under similar environments existing in billions and billions of similar planetary systems will create life and Intelligence in only one of them. In experiments conducted in laboratories on artificialy created early earth environments of 4 billion years ago, readily produced myriad of large molecules, which are building blocks of life on earth. Thus such molecules and subsequent life forms have definitely emerged in billions of planets and larger moons all over the universe including in our own galaxy. Even if we leave out leave out 99.99% of planets to have hostile environments for life, still we will have billions of them where life can emerge and prosper to varying degrees.
Anyone who is a keen observer of nature, will see that nature does things at an grand scale, so that there is maximum probability of success. Look at our earth, where millions of life forms have emerged and died, taking different paths, so that even as numerous species die out all the time, life and Intelligence has maximum chance for survival.Earth is one of those luckier experiments, where Life has survived over billions of years, overcoming hostile periods and environments to reach the level of intelligence as of Humans, who can now theorise about the Universe and aspire to reach out to its origin. Lookong to the large number of possible negative factors that can extinguish life from a planetary environment, such examples as of our earth is bound to be very few. But starting with billions of life bearing planets, even this miniscule number must be quiet large. Thare is no question that we couls be alone. As Einstein once remarked, we can also say, Nature do not play dice. Universe does things in such a way, that it leaves nothing to chance and ensures that emergence of Intelligence, which appears to be so vital to its own Life Cycle, do not fail. Universe is the mother and Intelligence is its child.
The start of the journey for evolution of life and Intelligence starts much before the large organic molecular were formed; the journey of evolution starts at the very beginning, where atoms come together to form molecules. The progressive formation of bigger and bigger molecules and then getting imbubed with property of life, the development from virus to bactreria to more complex life forms and imergence of higher level of Intelligence is part of the same journey. In fact the seed of life and intelligence is inherent in the property of the Universe itself, right from its inception* (*if ever there was a biginning to the universe). To make it like a scintific statement I can say, that there is an underlying Vector in all the workings of Nature, pointing towards creation and development of Intelligence. Nature's activity is not random, but it is Vectored to generate life and Intelligence. There exists a "Latent Intelligent Consciousness" in the fabric of Nature, which is being converted into 'Active Intelligence' all over the Univerese. It is interesting to note that if we replace the word 'God' with 'Nature', then the proclamation from religious books that "God created man in its own shape.', takes the form 'Nature Created Intelligene with its own essence.'
The Universe is vast beyond our ability of normal comprehension. There are millions of galaxies already detected by space telescopes, extending upto 13.5 billion light years. Each galaxy on the average has hundreads of billions of stars. But all this vastness is composed of the same building blocks of less than 100 stable elements. All this vastness is governed by the same physical laws; such as Graity, Quantum nature, Space-time duality, upper limit of speed, electro-magnetic waves and flow of ectrons as mode of enery trafer etc. Whatever is taking place in the universe are taking shape under the influence of these same forces. Our Sun and our planets are one of many billions of similar systems. There is nothing special about us. It is inconceivable that the same forces of nature under similar environments existing in billions and billions of similar planetary systems will create life and Intelligence in only one of them. In experiments conducted in laboratories on artificialy created early earth environments of 4 billion years ago, readily produced myriad of large molecules, which are building blocks of life on earth. Thus such molecules and subsequent life forms have definitely emerged in billions of planets and larger moons all over the universe including in our own galaxy. Even if we leave out leave out 99.99% of planets to have hostile environments for life, still we will have billions of them where life can emerge and prosper to varying degrees.
Anyone who is a keen observer of nature, will see that nature does things at an grand scale, so that there is maximum probability of success. Look at our earth, where millions of life forms have emerged and died, taking different paths, so that even as numerous species die out all the time, life and Intelligence has maximum chance for survival.Earth is one of those luckier experiments, where Life has survived over billions of years, overcoming hostile periods and environments to reach the level of intelligence as of Humans, who can now theorise about the Universe and aspire to reach out to its origin. Lookong to the large number of possible negative factors that can extinguish life from a planetary environment, such examples as of our earth is bound to be very few. But starting with billions of life bearing planets, even this miniscule number must be quiet large. Thare is no question that we couls be alone. As Einstein once remarked, we can also say, Nature do not play dice. Universe does things in such a way, that it leaves nothing to chance and ensures that emergence of Intelligence, which appears to be so vital to its own Life Cycle, do not fail. Universe is the mother and Intelligence is its child.
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