For many years, astronomers and ufologists have been trying to find traces of the presence of an alien mind in the stellar expanses. So far, all attempts to find aliens crash against the indestructible wall of the "Great Silence of Space".
To explain this paradox - the "silence of the cosmos" (named after the outstanding Italian physicist Fermi), three main options could be proposed:
We are alone in the Universe. We do not know what to observe, and by observing we do not understand. We ourselves are the result of some kind of superintelligence experiment, separated for the purity of experience into some kind of space reservation, vivarium or even a zoo.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, many "uninhibited" and "risky" topics have appeared in scientific publications. Among this stream of publications that have broken the dam of scientific censorship, the theme of the scientific justification of God stands out.
For example, the famous astronomer VM Lipunov in his article "Scientifically Discovered God" analyzed the so-called Tsiolkovsky paradox, which develops the Fermi paradox. According to him, the endless development of nature will lead to the complete victory of reason and turn the Universe into a "reasonable Universe".
Pulsar B1509-58: God's hand holding ears of corn
In this way, scientists come to the existence of a powerful Superintelligence, and as a result - to the discovery of a scientifically grounded God. The main argument is this: since everything around is suitable for a person's life, it means that the Universe was created by God for him.
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Supporters of the "scientific God" are largely supported by UFO hunters. Disappointed in their attempts to find real flying saucers with green men, they increasingly turn to the search for the wonders of the universal superintelligence. At the same time, many ufologists now and then manage to discern something miraculous in ordinary astronomical objects.
For example, modern science cannot satisfactorily explain the colossal star bridges of gas and dust that connect neighboring galaxies. And there and then there are hypotheses about the powerful supercivilizations that built these connecting bridges-bridges. In principle, such an artificial galactic phenomenon is quite possible, you only need a truly colossal ocean of energy and some kind of hard-to-imagine space technology.
Why do highly developed space civilizations connect galaxies with star bars?
We, of course, do not understand why highly organized intelligent beings, changing the appearance of entire galaxies, need luminous intergalactic bars, But we can assume that these are some kind of communication bridges for energy, matter and information for the conquest of the Metagalaxy …
Now is the time to think about the question: what should be understood by a cosmic miracle? Something very unusual and difficult to explain based on the natural laws of nature? However, many mysterious phenomena in the Universe at first seemed like cosmic wonders, but as time went on, astronomers turned them into ordinary things. However, in order to announce the traces of the "cosmic God", it takes a lot of courage.
GOD AS A COSMIC ILLUSION
Well, what could opponents of the cosmic superintelligence oppose to the hypothesis of the "scientific God"?
British biologist Richard Dawkins, in his book God as an Illusion, cleverly debunks the search for a "scientific God." In general, his books evoke a feeling of amazement in front of the beauty of dead nature, which gave rise to the miracle of life and reason.
The highest in the world is consciousness, reason, life … The perfection of the cosmos is the result of reason, consciousness and high activity … Reason is the greatest power of the cosmos … What is more powerful than reason! If he is the strongest, then he will win everything. He has power, strength and domination over the entire cosmos. The latter generates in himself the power that controls him. It is more powerful than all other forces of nature … Man and rational forces are one with nature, and one cannot deny the possibility of the participation of intelligent forces in natural phenomena. We just do not know how large and widespread it is … KE Tsiolkovsky. Dreams of Earth and Sky
An equally impressive picture of exploding worlds and island universes, debunking the hypothesis of a "scientific God", appears in the enchanting works of Carl Sagan "Cosmos" and "Dragons of Edom".
"Cosmic superintelligence" is also sharply criticized by the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, who believes that the word "god" should be used only exclusively in everyday meaning to describe a mythical supernatural creature. Otherwise, there will be great confusion, leading to deep delusions.
Many of the great thinkers of our time who seem to be religious are not at all. For example, the president of the Royal Society, Martin Rees, explains that he goes to church only as "an unbelieving Anglican … faithful to his people."
And, of course, fans of the so-called Einstein's religion, which is based on endless surprise and admiration for the indescribable beauty, complexity and contradictions of Nature, make a lot of confusion in the search for a "scientific God". Meanwhile, the brilliant physicist used the word "god", like other scientists
atheists, only in a figurative sense.
PEOPLE AS GODS
In the mid-1960s, science fiction writer and popularizer of science Sergei Snegov began to create the trilogy People are Gods. A lot of interesting things can be found in this wonderful epic from the world of the distant future, however, the main "physical" idea of changing not only the surrounding matter, but also the laws governing it, remained unnoticed for a long time.
In the same period, the great Lem published a very unusual article "New cosmogony", in which he presented the Metagalaxy divided into enclaves of supercivilizations. These extraterrestrial intelligences possess inexpressible power, literally adjusting the surrounding space to themselves.
This is how the first ideas about the physical basis of the activity of the supernatural mind that governs the Cosmos appeared. "Scientific God" as an abstract phenomenon was almost debunked: its functions were acquired by some intelligent beings. The last step in this debunking was taken by a group of Soviet researchers. They set themselves a daunting task - to create a cybernetic basis for the control of the fundamental laws of nature. Simply put, it was about mathematical models of "supernatural activity" of the higher mind, which would simply nullify the hypothesis of a "scientific God".
Professor L. M. Pustylnikov and his colleagues A. G. Butkovsky and O. I. Zolotoe decided to combine in their models describing the "technique of God", mathematics, theoretical and mathematical physics, technical cybernetics, and control theory.
This is where the amazing concept was born, which was named "The managerial or cybernetic paradigm of the world." It argues that all the phenomena around us are based on a feedback control scheme containing some regulators that are naturally present in nature and society.
In those days, such theories caused waves of criticism, and today they completely fit into the amazing multiverse model. In this scheme of the Many-Worlds Creation, we are surrounded by infinitely diverse universes. Theoretically, you can find anything among them: from completely dead worlds to magical lands inhabited by fabulous creatures.
This is how scientists moved from scientific speculation about the divine "Great Silence of the Universe" and "scientifically discoverable God" to the exciting perspective of "scientific management of God" (meaning Nature). And just in time. Indeed, already now humanity is thinking about survival in the coming cosmic catastrophes of a planetary and even universal scale.
OUR "DIVINE" SECRETS
It is impossible to finish the story about the "divine" secrets of the "control" of the Universe without mentioning the mysterious phenomena surrounding us.
Firstly, our star itself is such an unusual star that astronomers have not yet found its full analogue among thousands of yellow dwarfs.
Secondly, the solar system itself is located in a very temperate belt of stars in our Galaxy - the Milky Way.
And thirdly, the Earth with the Moon is a unique planetary system that gave birth to life and reason in rare conditions. And the very structure of the solar system, obeying the arithmetic rule of Titius - Bode, looks rather artificial …
All of the above circumstances often lead to the conclusion that the formation of our cosmic home could not do without the intervention of extraterrestrial intelligence of truly divine power. Some creationists directly assure that at every step of the Universe we meet the imprints of the "divine hand" that built the miracle of intelligent life. Is it really?
In a long list of failed cosmic wonders, one can find the artificial satellites of Mars - Deimos and Phobos, and the Martian civilization itself with canals, pyramids and sphinxes. The versions about the Moon as a giant space ark, left as a legacy to earthlings after the detonation of millions of nuclear charges on the planet Phaethon, which left behind an asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, will also be met here.
The consistent debunking of cosmic wonders really leads to sadness. conclusions: either we are alone, or our planet is just a speck of dust under the "microscope" of the superintelligence, thinking about its preparation …
Well, if, nevertheless, “space gods” exist, then their manifestation may very much resemble the plot of the “Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatsky brothers. After all, the scale of our mind and their superintelligence will be simply incommensurable …
Oleg FEYG
