Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
The universe is an intelligence test.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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