THE INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE: MAKING THE CASE FOR A BIOLOGICAL, GENERATIVE UNIVERSE WITH AN ESCHER LIKE PROCESS OF MUTUAL SELF CREATION AS AN UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE.

Many of my recent presentations in particular have revolved around the issue of human equanimity, the possibility of its attainment and how a complexity model of recursive loops of positive reinforcement create an upward spiral of good feelings and intensifying altruistic behaviors. I have focused on the negentropic nature of intelligence and of complexification in general.
Now I am taking the prerogative of a MOOM (Musings of old men) or MOOP (a more politically correct “musings of old people”) to enlarge the frame as widely as possible and as well to make the case that a basic chirality of human existence and purpose is indeed to be free, to be happy and to be part of the biologically evolving process of enabling intelligence to come to full fruition as a fully potentiated link in what is probably an infinite chain of generative matrices that endlessly give birth to life/intelligence endowed universes. This I would hypothesize is the ultimate purpose and meaning of all life and of human life as an intermediate stage in that mind boggling complexifying process that is all around us, and that is us in fact.
Now this is not a talk about intelligent design, but rather about intelligence that is an innate part of the design and of a recursive, bifurcative unfolding interaction and mutual creation between the innate design and the unfolding intelligence whose back action through time may indeed give us a picture of an entity that gives birth to itself.
All of this is of course in no way remotely original with me, though musings of this sort have been part of my intellectual agenda for decades. Rather the immediate source are people like Stephen Dick, Seth Shostak, Paul Davies, Frank Tipler, Paul Barrow, Freeman Dyson, David Bohm, Ray Kurzweil, Robert Wright, Robert Penrose, Erwin Schrodinger, Seth Lloyd, Lynn Margulis, Lee Smolin Hans Moravec, Fred Hoyle and of course James Gardner, whose notion of the Biocosm has organized much of the material into a potentially viable hypothesis.

Frank Mosca: mosca@optonline.net
Photo by Roulette, 2008 Conference