How things "might" be working

Intelligent life

When space travelling started and scientists found out more about the universe, there was interest in finding other "intelligent lives".

This is based on the assumption that humans are "intelligent". But are we? What is intelligence?

How do small life forms work?

When we look at all forms of life on earth, there are animals (mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians), insects, plants, etc. Some living things, they consist of living cells.

We now know some living things are programmed with DNA. But some aren't. (Cells that don't reproduce.)

Does more programming provide "intelligence"? Does the mass of an organ called the brain determine "intelligence"? How do small life forms survive?

The evolution of computers

To try to understand that I start thinking of computers. The origin of computers goes back to when we didn't have any semiconductors. A computer would be as big as a whole room. Now that processing power fits in your phone/watch.

The large computers, thanks to semiconductors, eventually got much smaller. The era of personal computers. Then something interesting happened. The internet.

The internet connected all these computers. They were able to communicate with one another. Due to communication, computers that had very little processing power emerged. They were called "thin clients". Thin clients would have all the heavy lifting processing done by a "host".

Nowadays, depending on what you want to do, the balance of processing power can be distributed. The processing power could be all in one computer. It could be distributed to a large collection of relatively little processing power computers. Or it could have a powerful server with many computers relying on it.

Could there be some similarities?

Going back to living things. Are all the thinking and decision-making for small living things done within themselves? Or could it happen that the thinking and decision-making are done outside the living things?

Let me connect this back to why I think meditation is important, which I wrote about yesterday, and how we may be able to connect to the unknown.