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Chapter 5 Dependence of the Evolution of Intelligence (3) The non-linear upward evolution of intelligence (consciousness) has a direct relationship and interdependency with the spatial expansion of the universe. Intelligence would appear to be a space-related property rather than a simple condensation into matter-energy. In other words, it resides outside of matter-energy condensation but nevertheless is constantly interacting and interfacing with it. Evidence for this is the fact that matter-energy is continuously undergoing entropy at an exponential rate, having a direct relationship to intelligence, which in turn is evolving to states of increasing complexity. In a sense they are moving in opposite directions. Nevertheless, it would appear that increasingly higher levels of intelligence require progressively more complex arrangements of matter-energy. To better illustrate the evidence that intelligence is a property of space rather than simply an inherent ingredient of matter-energy, one might look at the brain and its function. There are about ten billion cells in a human brain and each of them receives an average of 10,000 connections from other brain cells. Each cell has its own molecular structure renewed completely at least 10,000 times during its life. Since the brain loses more than 1,000 cells each day, there are more than a trillion cross-linkages obliterated every 24 hours. Even though the material structure of the brain is constantly undergoing entropic change, including a tremendous turnover of atoms and molecules, our basic behavioral patterns and experiential memories remain. We are constantly changing in many ways, but remain recognizably ourselves with an identifiable personality structure.1 One of the prerequisites for the upward evolution of intelligence has been the expansion of the universe (i.e., space). As more space has become available per unit of matter-energy, it has allowed the formation of increasing numbers of more complex atoms and molecules. According to Layzer, uniform disorder prevailed prior to the "big bang" at the beginning. Information, regarded as a measure of the non-uniform orderly properties of physical systems, evolved out of the initial state of perfect confusion. Cosmic expansion was the cause of the infant universe departing from a state of maximum chaos. As long as the processes which randomized the distribution of energy and concentration of the various types of particles were very fast--faster than the rate at which the cosmos was expanding --equilibrium was maintained. Bits of atoms smashed into one another in the confusion of that very dense, undifferentiated state with such frequency that structures were prevented from arising. The speed of cosmic expansion was increasing, and once it became greater than the speed at which forces of disorder could degrade information by collisions, chemical equilibrium was broken. As encounters between particles became less frequent because of greater distances between them, and as they continuously lost energy, the equal distribution of different kinds of particles could not be maintained. This resulted in the chemical composition of the universe changing from a state of equilibrium to one of disequilibrium as the expansion proceeded.2... The evolution of intelligence could not occur until the state of universal expansion allowed complex molecules to form.
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