QUOTE (Lt_Ripley @ Jun 6 2008, 05:29 PM)

isn't the 3 states of matter liquid , solid and gas ?? I know science class was a long time ago.......
There's tons of them...
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I agree that the whole universe is consciousness. If the universe gives birth to intelligent consciousness then why is it so irrational to accept that the universe itself is intelligent consciousness?
Because there's simply nothing to support that? I could just as easily say that it's the earth that is alive that gave us intelligence. Without more, it's just a willful piecing together rather then something based on anything.
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Any seeming evolution of the universe as a whole or in parts is illusion, however paradoxically there is no illusion because all there is infinite consciousness that is absolutely perfect.
It's hardly perfect if you're considering that we're special for having intelligence. We have a good chance of dying off in the future then we do have in surviving the branching out off this rock. We already know that the universe isn't a pretty place or safe one at it for humanity as we keep looking around. Other then that I'm not sure what you would mean by perfect... Perfect maybe for the universe in it's self maybe if it was alive as you suggested earlier?