The Nature of Good and Evil.

Dear Friends:

Your ever-inquisitive reporter always thought the Universe was totally amoral, and there was no such thing as good and evil...... but in the last few days, I realized this flys in the face of another belief I have!

Let me explain!

It is the opinion of a lot of scientists, theologians, philosophers and psychologists that when discussing or analyzing the Universe it is primarily seen as an amoral body that "does not concern itself with the things of this world!" (It does not concern itself with ANYTHING...... it simply IS!)

Meanwhile: The question that intrigued the great American quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life was: “Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?”  (Wheeler originated the notion of a “participatory,” conscious universe, a cosmos in which all of us are embedded as co-creators, replacing the accepted universe “out there,” which is separate from us.)

Sir John Eccles, a famous British neurologist and Nobel laureate, declared, “I want you to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no sound – nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty, no scent.” What Eccles means, says Kafatos, is that all the qualities of Nature, from the luxurious scent of a rose to the sting of a wasp and the taste of honey, are produced by human beings. Erwin Schrödinger, one of the main founders of quantum mechanics, said essentially the same thing when he declared that photons, quanta of light, have no color, such properties arise in the biology of perception.

Wheeler used the image of children with their noses pressed against a bakery window to describe the view that kept the observer separate from the thing being observed. But in a fully participatory universe, the observer and the thing observed are one. (Wheeler was a major influence on Deepak Chopra who joined forces with physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about human existenc.)

So, we either have a Universe that is totally amoral, (Once again: It doesn't give a shit because it doesn't do anything..... it simply IS!) and this means that there is no such thing as good or evil.

OR:

If we are part of a Cosmic Consciousness, God, Mother Nature, The Force or whatever else you want to call it, and then 'free will' and the concept of 'good and evil'  are real because that's what makes "LIFE" fun to play!

Thereby the  corollary of this line of thinking is that:

There is no purpose, plan or objective in the Universe...... shit just happens!

BUT: We are the ones who define the rules of the game (Good and Evil, etc!) so how we treat life and cope with it is totally up to us!

The way I see it anyway!