Self-Organizing Entities

 I ran across an essay discussing the future from an Orthodox Christian perspective, where we might have the ability to change our past, but the future had one ending. Or maybe it was the other way around. I liked the first idea for "Road Tripping." And today, I ran across this in The Guardian's A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator:

According to Herzog, On the Origin of Time deals with questions about our place in the universe and what makes our universe fit for life. “These questions were always in the background in our scientific publications. What I have done for this book is to make these questions central and tell our story from that perspective.

“Stephen and I discovered how physics itself can disappear back into the big bang. Not the laws as such but their capacity to change has the final word in our theory. This sheds a new light on what cosmology is ultimately about.”

According to Hertog, the new perspective that he has achieved with Hawking reverses the hierarchy between laws and reality in physics and is “profoundly Darwinian” in spirit. “It leads to a new philosophy of physics that rejects the idea that the universe is a machine governed by unconditional laws with a prior existence, and replaces it with a view of the universe as a kind of self-organising entity in which all sorts of emergent patterns appear, the most general of which we call the laws of physics.”

Is that not what human beings are supposed to be -  a self-organizing entity? It is the idea I am playing with in "Road Tripping" and this gives me more to think about. Maybe it will give you enough to think about.

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