{"id":2402,"date":"2018-12-15T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:48:22","slug":"patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are patterns in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Brain is a pattern-recognition organ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Universe rewarded genes that produced Brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Because Universe has patterns, Universe has Brain. A universe with no patterns, no physics, no gravity, no stars, of Entropy and alone, could have no Brain. A universe without brains could have no patterns. If Brain, then patterns. If patterns, then Brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But our Universe has physics. Intelligence is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We are not the apex. We are not the only brains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humanity occupies a point so small as to be nearly invisible, an instant of infinitesimal flicker in an expanse so eternal and infinite we can not fully comprehend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Universe does not care. Others are rewarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Because there are patterns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There will always be Brain. Intelligence is inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are patterns in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Brain is a pattern-recognition organ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Universe rewarded genes that produced Brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Because Universe has patterns, Universe has Brain. A universe with no patterns, no physics, no gravity, no stars, of Entropy and alone, could have no Brain. A universe without brains could have no patterns. If Brain, then patterns. If patterns, then Brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But our Universe has physics. Intelligence is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We are not the apex. We are not the only brains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humanity occupies a point so small as to be nearly invisible,  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2402\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8,373],"tags":[540,535,538,539,537,536,534],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window","category-outer-limits","category-second-star-to-the-right","tag-entorpy","tag-eternal","tag-extinction","tag-god","tag-humanity","tag-infinite","tag-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3mcOb-patterns","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}