Anthony North: Many people believe in the existence of higher consciousness in the universe, yet we're often told that such concepts are unexplainable. I'm not sure this is true. Could we rationalize such a thing? In my essay, The Mystical Seven, I showed how the 'law of large numbers' could be applied, at least philosophically, to such a concept. Stated simply, the law indicates that greater order manifests the greater the number of things involved. I applied this to the universe.: I argued that it could allow greater order in the clusterings of existence, working up from the individual, the species, the planet, the solar system, galaxy, the island universe and the universe itself. However, it is maybe time to take this concept a little further. Now, I am not talking about an 'intelligence' or 'rationality' as we understand it. Rather, could higher consciousness be simply a 'process' underlying reality? What can we say about the concept? : Well, such a consciousness would suggest an interlinking of everything in the universe. Further, as it would be on an information level, we could argue that all information in the universe would be within it. We would have, in effect, a universal database of all thought and action. Bringing back the 'law of large numbers', could the process 'access' such information in such a way as to be analogous to an internet search engine? What would be involved in creating greater order?: We could say that it would involve a process we presently understand as coincidence. Consider a 'lower' order of consciousness -the person, for instance -wanting to access the system.

A key word would be applied, and the search engine would throw up possibilities. This is coincidental arrangement of information, yet behind it has been a spark of intelligent input to the system. We're often told we live in an information universe.: If this is so, and such a system could be applied, then the coincidental arrangement of information could actually be coincidental arrangement of events, thought or action in the universe itself.

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