The meaning of life: A new hypothesis of the origin of humanity

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The main question ever asked by humanity is: "Why are we here?" - this is the desire to understand the reason for the emergence of man as a species. You can turn to religion and theology, to physics and biology, to history and conspiracy theories, but this question was unanswered, so it remained without this answer. Although, there are several hypotheses here …

Why us? No one will dispute the fact that a person is very different from what is on our planet. We look more like eggs thrown by some cuckoo into a sparrow's nest: we seem to belong to birds, but we flap our wings differently. Everything in the Earth's ecosystem is interconnected. Each structural element of nature somehow influences the work of other structural elements and depends on their influence. If you draw such connections in the form of arrows, then all plants, animals, microorganisms have two-sided arrows (because they take something, and give something back) and only a person gets out of this holiday of harmony with his one-sided arrow (because we only take) … If people are not included in this ideal scheme, then we have appeared somehow differently from others. As if everyone was born naturally, and we are the only ones who are the result of artificial insemination. How can we explain our origins?

God, ape or an alien Darwin's theory The most famous theory of the origin of man (and so far the most logically argued) is the theory of Charles Darwin. The scientist saw the solution to the problem in the main natural mechanism - natural selection. It took thousands of years of various conditions for a man to develop to his present form. People (and all living organisms) adapted to them, which entailed certain mutations. If you do not know how to adapt, you will not survive! The most memorable example on this topic: hares who have learned to change the color of their skin for the winter. Everything is simple here - he did not enter the trend of white fur, he became too noticeable against the background of snow with his gray fur coat out of season - he died. Only those hares survived, which were always "in style". In the future, only these "mods", respectively, gave offspring. Well, in their children, a similar "taste" for changing fur is already embedded in the genes. What do we conclude: a "fashionable sentence" is often followed by a death sentence! But returning to people, remember the phrase that a man should be "a little more beautiful than a monkey"? So, this comparison is to some extent applicable to women, since all people descended from primates (at least until someone proves otherwise). It turns out that our ancestors are primates - this is how they adapted to unfavorable conditions, adapted and "adapted" … before us. The Recipe for Man's Creation from God Not everyone likes to be modernized in the likeness of a monkey, because "in the likeness of the Lord" for our vanity sounds all the nicer. So, what recipe did God choose for the creation of mankind? He did not complicate everything, and simply created Adam out of the earth ("You will return to the land from which you were taken, for you are dust and to dust you will return"), and Eve from Adam's rib. All ingenious is simple! Help from alien lives I think everything is also quite clear here: alien races flew in, they did something here (there is no evidence, except for the inexplicable architecture of ancient times, so what they did is also not clear) and - ladies and gentlemen, let me imagine, a reasonable person ! This theory also combines the concept of gradual development. That is, if the "Martians" really put their hand (claw, tentacle, or whatever they have there) to the appearance of such a species as a person, then only as an impetus for the mutation of genes that were presented on our planet. After all, all the chemicals that are present in the human body are on Earth.

Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? An interesting series of questions that still have no answer. This is the name of the painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, presented above. How can you find the answer to these questions? Many, to solve the problem, advise looking at it from a different angle. I propose to take this advice and transform three questions into one: "Why are we here?" Is there some kind of logic in our presence in this universe or are we just some kind of system failure? I think there should be a logical rationale. And not because "the ways of the Lord are inscrutable" and "He has a plan for everyone." My thought boils down to the fact that if the Universe is such a thorough system that it was able to model the ideal physical laws under which life is possible, it could not be mistaken. Everything goes to destruction So, what is the answer to the question "Why are we to the Universe?" The answer lies in the area of entropy. Entropy is a part of energy that cannot be transformed into mechanical work (no, this is not laziness!). To explain in simpler words, imagine the process of making wine! Here it is infused in bottles with grape cake (fermentation occurs thanks to it) and after a while you pour it into a clean bottle. And the poorly thrown grape cake remains. And everyone would just continue to throw him out if savvy Georgians did not come up with chacha! They, to some extent, transformed the residual energy. Why does the Universe need entropy? Scientists have long noticed that the Cosmos has two natural tendencies: to destruction (corrosion, decay and many other things that make everything mortal) and to the formation of ordered forms (drops collect in puddles, gases in clouds, planets in solar systems, etc.) etc.). And everything seems to be cool, harmony and balance in all its glory, if not for the subtext of ordered forms: with their help, the Universe produces destruction on a larger scale. Before the time-time continuum we understand was created due to the explosion, there was nothing, only the initial Chaos. And then, all of a sudden, everything sorted out. And then there are two options, or the Universe, "built" this continuum, like a baby cake - in order to destroy it with pleasure, or a mistake has occurred and now it is trying with all its might to return everything to square one.

So, what happens: because of the Explosion, residual energy was formed, which needs to be put somewhere, and therefore Father Cosmos directed all his resources to building systems where this energy will dissipate (collapse). It is this idea that Jeremy England is bringing to the masses. Dan Brown described this hypothesis in a very accessible language in his book "Origins". So accessible that I will not even try to explain it myself, but simply cite excerpts from the book: "As far as Langdon understood, Jeremy England's idea was that the Universe exists for a single purpose. To dissipate energy. Simply put, if where- then there will be a concentration of energy, nature seeks to dissipate this energy. The classic example that Kirsch already mentioned is a cup of hot coffee on the table. It always cools, transferring energy to the surrounding molecules, according to the second law of thermodynamics - Simply put, - continued England, "nature organizes itself to dissipate energy more efficiently." He smiled. "Nature uses ordered structures to achieve disorder more quickly. Ordered structures increase the disorder of the system and thus increase entropy. Langdon never thought of that, but apparently England was right. Examples are everywhere. Take at least a thundercloud. When it is "ordered" and accumulates electric th charge - nature creates conditions for a lightning discharge. In other words, the laws of physics shape the mechanisms for the dissipation of energy. A lightning strike transfers the energy accumulated by the cloud to the ground and dissipates there, increasing the overall entropy of the system. The elements of order in nature, Langdon realized, are the weapons of chaos. Wood absorbs the concentrated energy of the sun. Uses it for growth, and then radiates into nature in the infrared range - in the least concentrated form of energy. Photosynthesis is a very efficient mechanism for increasing entropy. The highly concentrated energy of the sun is attenuated and dissipated by the tree. And thus the total entropy of the Universe increases. This is even more true for living organisms - including humans. A living organism uses ordered systems as food, converts them into energy, and then dissipates them into the environment in the form of heat.

People are a tool for destruction. Everything seems to be clear. Only one thing is not clear: why was it necessary to create such a complex species as a person? Why was it necessary to form such a complex nervous system in us? Why is this "woe from the mind", damn it? I’m all because only people, possessing such a high intellect, create complex mechanisms to simplify their own life and simplify the purpose of the Universe. Our machines, factories, stations are just the perfect tool for dissipating energy! We, as a species, daily transform such an amount of energy that does not transform all the species on Earth combined. We are not quite a simple, but elegant solution of the Universe to its goal.

George Carling American comedian, actor, writer "The planet does not share our preconceptions about plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. She probably perceives plastic as another of her children. There is only one possible reason why the Earth allowed us to get out of her in the first place - she wanted to get plastic for herself. Didn't know how to do it, and we were needed! This may be the answer to the centuries-old philosophical question: "Why are we here?" Plastic, assholes! " Carling, albeit in his own way, also talked about it. We are all used to discussing the harm of humanity to the environment: because of us glaciers are melting, because of us fresh water is disappearing, animals are dying out because of us. And even before us, the planet destroyed 97% of the species (somewhere a dinosaur sighed sadly). We have nothing to do with it! Imagine how the Universe, rubbing its foggy glasses, examines the dinosaurs it has created and sadly calculates the percentage of energy dissipation: “Not enough! She is like House throwing a ball against the wall and suddenly screaming "Eureka!" draws a drawing - you think who? - a person. Quickly figuring in her head that dinosaurs (as representatives of the conservative party) will not let her people develop, she hurls a meteorite onto the Earth (a common fetish). And now, when almost all species die, a small rodent, hiding in the ground, experiences all the cataclysms. And our story - the history of mankind - begins with his story "The Last Survivor". Who knows, maybe after some time the Universe will again appreciate the charts and looking sadly at the clock, will go to draw another ingenious drawing. Perhaps somewhere out there, in the depths of the distant Cosmos, some meteorite number 2 is already flying, and the dinosaurs, giggling maliciously, make room for us next to them in nothingness. So, there is no need to think about any global mission of humanity! If life slips lemons, you need to make lemonade out of them! If the Universe uses our life only to dissipate as much energy as possible, then this means that in this process we should get as much pleasure as possible, experience as much happiness as possible, fulfill all our dreams. The Universe has its own goals, and man has his own.