Thoughts on life

At times I wonder about what is this life. Probably everybody wonders about this paradigm and has his/her own thoughts about it. This is my blog and so I get the honor to put my thoughts. They may sound weird to few but actually I don't think anyone will have an all logical and straight forward reply to "What is life?"

I at times imagine world to be a simulation being run by superior beings (may be we call that existence as God). We are their puppets running around or living as we are designed to and they are watching us and getting amused on how we react to various situations and so on. God gave us a canvas consisting of land, water, air, vegetation, etc. He also gave us senses to know the world around and also "mind" to think and interpret. I am not sure what we think, is actually what we wanted to think. I believe Matrix movie depicted this very artistically. It showed that the way humans understand is by the process of neurons interaction in brain. Neurons being electric signals can be very well altered (by God, machines, super beings) and humans can be made to think what they were supposed or designed to think. Matrix movie had this concept of matrix world where humans live in a virtual state and consider it as reality. What if that is somehow true? What if we are really being controlled by God in our thinking process? We live in a world created by nature, we think by the mind designed by nature, etc etc. What if the mind is itself biased in a way that it keeps humans busy / engaged with non relevant tasks (such as making money, fighting each other). What is nature? Is it just another name of that super existence?

This is somewhat similar to ecosystem in which we are playing Mario, where we provide Mario the environment and canvas to run around, earn coins, fight his enemies and win his girl in the end. But in reality he is doing nothing but just consuming some electricity in CPU. Mario can never cross his boundaries of his virtual world and he is doomed to stay within that canvas/ unit. Now can we escape this world? Don't you think the idea of infinite space around is just so fictitious, unrealistic? Can infinite space exist? Yes it does as per our current science and we are just a small small small small part of this infinite space. Well this may be just be a limitation of science, after all couple of centuries back we considered earth to be flat and that we would fall if we cross the edge :)

I do not believe completely with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. According to it, we evolved to what we currently are on the basis of constant development and adjustment to the nature, and also on the basis of survival of the fittest. Instead, I feel that we were designed to evolve this way. It is hard to believe that all our senses viz. eyes, nose, ears, touch and smell, developed just on the basis of adjustment to the nature. I mean how come a complex organ such as nose developed from zilch just on the basis of survival of the fittest. Even if we assume that we developed as per the support / canvas available to us in the form of nature, why is it that other planets have no life? Life could had also developed on those planets as per the resources available there. Why it is that only earth among billions of planets and astronomical bodies, supports life?

I also believe that our mind and other body organs are just highly sophisticated machines. Humans have already gained technology to replicate memory storage (hard disk), mind (processor), eyes (camera), etc etc. There is a long long way to reach when we can actually create mind, eyes and other organs. However there is something more than just working organs in a life form. That is the "existence". Think about it, if someone's heart stops beating and after couple of minutes you start his/her heart beats with some mechanical machines, will he/she come back to life? No! But what really changed? He has his organs, probably they didnt die as we started artificial heart beats soon enough. But he is still not in conscience and that means there is something more than just your body, your thoughts, that define you. Is this what we call our soul?

Further there are a lot of fantastic phenomenon that are interlinked to sustain the life. I do not think they just got created automatically without any divine intervention. Think about some of these beautiful and complex systems:

• Underground fresh water to sustain thirsty cities, regular rains to replenish the underground water, monsoon seasonal winds to create water logged clouds, and seas and vast oceans that act as a source of water
• Ecosystem, where a huge mass of fire i.e. Sun is the source of energy. Grass and plants absorb sunlight and water to produce vegetation, herbivores eat that to sustain themselves and in turn provide themselves as food for omnivores and carnivores. Not only that, each species has a vital role in the ecosystem without which everything will just fail. A subtle example is earthworm, which makes land porous and helps vegetation to grow.
• Astronomical bodies revolving and rotating to give us various seasons and different flavors of life. Creating day and night to provide us with sleeping and working hours. Both day and night are necessary to sustain our life. These astronomical bodies are also responsible for creating tides, monsoon winds and so many other necessary phenomenon for our existence.

It is hard for me to to believe that all this is happening on its own and we just got evolved in a perfect way to suit it the best. What sounds more convincing to me is that it was designed to be what it is and also our mind has been designed to think in a manipulative way.