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To: Eric Maggard who wrote (94)	3/9/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: Jean-Philippe Chevalier	Respond to of 1615

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To: Eric Maggard who wrote (94)	3/12/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1615

Eric: Answers to questions you posed. Q. If you think that intelligence is the highest form of order in the universe, how do you think the universe came into existence? Did it just happen, or did something with intelligence create it? A. Actually I should have qualified my statement as "rational intelligence". The Chaos Theory points convincingly to random events. Certainly entropy is the major determinant on the devolvement of the dimensional space-time we perceive as 'the Universe". Q.What are the principles of the universe? A. They are still being discovered. Science is the quest to understand reality. Technology is the application of knowledge gained through successful comprehension of the principles of the workings of the universe. One of the purposes of intelligence (and its test) is to separate reality from illusion and to use knowledge gained to move forward. One of the great purposes of LIFE is LIFE itself. Q. Do you think we will ever be able to comprehend them? A. Yes. Q. What do we create? A. All things on Earth. Soon, life itself. Q. Can we create something out of nothing? (That goes against the laws of the universe that I learned in my physics classes.) A. Yes. We create with our imagination every day. Languages, mathematics, art are some examples. As to the "laws" of your physics classes, I do not think they will remain unchanged 1,000 or even 100 years from now. We have hypothesis and theory; "laws" (even those of thermodynamics) may not be unbreakable. Q. How long will the evolution process take for us to come into control of the universe? A. Indeterminate - but not long once we control our own evolution. Q. What will we be able to do when we become God? A. Anything our imaginations can create - limited only by reality. Q. What is the destiny of an individual person? (To work for forty years and try to help the human race reach a far off goal?) A. To seek personal happiness and achievement - never to work for a mob, a group, or some amorphous "common good". This is achieved by the formulation of an objective philosophy working within the boundaries of reality. An objective philosophy supports a rational morality and the ethics that derive from it. Q. To enjoy life, for the short number of years we have here before we die? A. No. Nor is it to live for 80 years and then spend eternity in a Never-Never Land. Q. What is the purpose to [of] our existence? A. To understand our selves, then the local environment (planet Earth, Solar System), then the entire Universe. Once achieved we can direct the evolvement of all of these to our purposes. Such as terra-forming planets to our needs, using stars as energy sources, redesigning humans for space, combining our brains with AI machines, developing inter- and intradimensional forms of travel, etc. Eventually, in effect, to become "God". Father Terrence