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by HungryGuy on August 13th, 2004

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How does matter become aware of its own existence?

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  • by Anon on April 22nd, 2006

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    This is the short version. Big bang spews quaks through the universe. Under the force of gravity the quaks bunch up together, the force of gravity becomes so great that the quaks fuse and become the basic element hydrogen, these hydrogen atoms then fuse together through gravity and create stars. Through a form of fusion, two hydrogen atoms collide, an electron is gained by one of the hydrogen atoms and becomes helium. This process continues in billions of stars, creating every element on earth today. Some stars explode throwing those elements into the universe. These elements finally come under the force of gravity and pull together to form meteors, which later become planets, which begin to orbit the stars. A planet having the right elements and being the right distance from a sun produces amino acids (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7872). Those amino acids evolve into DNA, and then single celled organisms. Those single celled organisms eventually evovle into a multi celled biological creature, and that multi celled creature evolves into a complex multi organed creature, and that creature evolves through time to need greater intelegence in order to survive its current enviroment, and that intelegence grows greater over the process of evolution and gradually results in a conscience. Awarness of its existence would be a combination of stimulated biological sensors sending electrical signals to a processing organ(brain), which would then interpret those electrical signals and allow understanding on whatever level.

    This is how matter becomes aware, it takes a process of billions and billions of years.

    The definition of awarness is subject to scrutiny. But lets say it is determined by a recognition of self. So if I call my dog, it recognizes its name and comes to me. It therefore must have an awarness of self to asign itself a name.

    I will now show how awarness and understanding can be measured using matter.

    The amount of matter in the brain does affect the level of awareness in a creature. This can been seen by looking at the brains of different creatures. A dogs brain is smaller than a humans brain, and so its level of understanding and awarness is less then a humans. A sperm whales brain is bigger than a human brain. The reason why a sperm whale has less understanding and awarness than a human is because there is an optimum size for a brain. To small and there isn't enough brain matter to process information. If the brain is to big, the distance between parts of the brain are further, and the distance from sensory perceptors are further, causing information to travel further and thus slowing the processing power of the brain down. It also takes longer for the body to supply oxigen and nutrients to all parts of the brain, causing it to slow down. At the moment the human species has evolved to produce the most effecient brain size.

    Looking at the following, you can see that the amount of matter in the brain can effect a creatures ability of awareness.

    In conclusion: matter matters.

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    • Not to be nit-picky, but dogs actually don't know their names, they just assosiate that word with a reward such as food, petting, verbal rewards, or attention. But other, than that, great answer.

      Uluru

      by Uluru on March 8th, 2009

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