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3. The universe and its origins
| 3.13 |
The intimate link between matter and rules (awareness) |
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| A simple question then that is often overlooked is the fundamental question- if rules and matter are so interdependent, what came first? rules or matter? In other words, at the time of first creation, the time leading up to and including the moment of "big bang" what came first- rules or matter? | ||
| Matter can't come first- without rules matter can't function | ||
| The instinctive answer is to say that matter comes first. This makes most sense, except we have already shown that without rules matter cannot function- in other words, an absence of rules implies total and complete chaos- Rules can't suddenly sneak in from this state because a complete absence of any order precludes the ability to validate existence of any fashion. Existence is a definition and an absence of rules is an absence of definition. | ||
| Rules can't come first- without matter the reality of the universe does not exist | ||
| By the same token, in reality rules cannot exist without matter, Without matter, the universe does not exist. | ||
| 3.13.2 | No way to answer this question in reality | |
| The answer in reality to the question-"what came first? rules or matter?" is that there is no adequate answer. Neither can exist without the other. It is the perpetual "chicken and the egg" argument (i.e. what came first, the chicken or the egg?"). | ||
| Because there is no clear answer, we can call this question paradoxical- because it seems to have no clear answer. | ||
| However, remembering that we seek a model first and proof second, there is a way of answering the chicken and the egg argument that can "in theory" work. Lets examine this theory now. | ||
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