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“The Universe Is Talking to
Itself—You’re Just a Brief Aside” by Bodhangkur Everything you’ve ever met—atoms, molecules, cells,
goats, gods—turns out to be nothing but instruction packets. Each
packet carries a tiny behavioural script and fires it off whenever it bumps
into another script. The bump is called “interaction.” The splattered outcome
is called “information.” Congratulations: that’s the entire epistemology of
the universe. All these packets operate under one unified
procedure—the same four forces, the same constants, the same rulebook for
who’s allowed to do what to whom and when. Think of it as the world’s oldest
operating system, written once and never patched. From these rules emerge the trillions of little
conversational units that keep the cosmic chatter going, forever. Electrons
gossip with protons. DNA swaps rumours with enzymes. Stars mutter to each
other through gravity. Every interaction is a message. Every message is an
update. The whole cosmos is basically one long, noisy, self-updating group
chat. And then—humans appear. A late-arriving species, one of maybe six million
biological instruction packets currently scurrying around the surface of a
transient clump of other instruction packets. We, as data tokens, are, at
best, a flamboyant footnote in the universal conversation, notable mainly for
the fact that we can hear ourselves talk and assume the universe has been
waiting for our commentary. It hasn’t. We are a self-stimulating aside in a far bigger
dialogue—a sometimes amusing but mostly tragic momentary glitch of recursive
muttering within a system that was perfectly fine tuned before we arrived and
will continue to chatter perfectly long after we’re gone. So next time you feel cosmically important, remember:
Instruction,
Emergence and the Universe as Self-conversation From Divine
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