Omega Point

The Omega Point is the end and aim point in the theological or philosophical consideration of Evolution by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Frank Tipler. This endpoint is named after the biblical passage Omega Revelation 22:13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ".

The Omega Point Teilhard de Chardin

Teilhard de Chardin sees life and the cosmos in a caused by God creative movement that has not yet reached their destination. Characteristic of this movement is the constant increase of Organized awareness and organic unity. The quest in this direction, so the engine of evolution, is the love for Teilhard. This love that is already acting and suffering prefigures the final goal, the organic unity of all existence, was fully realized for Teilhard in the heart of a man in Jesus Christ. So he calls Christ with a biblical sovereignty Title (Rev. 21:6), the Omega or the Omega Point, that is objective, direction and driving force of evolution.

The Omega Point Theory of Tipler

Frank J. Tipler describes a cosmological scenario the distant future of the universe.

According to this view, the universe, and his intelligent civilizations before it comes to a big crunch singularity in the end, able to exponentially increase its capacity to process information on time. A simulation run on this computer universe can all conceivable realities and thus all gewesenen entities - all people who have ever lived - perfectly simulate and can thus be resurrected in a virtual world. Since a perfect copy is basically indistinguishable from the original and it does not on the substrate of life ( eg, carbon ), but arrives at the pattern of life, such a perfect simulation ( = emulation) with reality is the same.

Humans as a biological species is extinct, although the long term, but the culture and the entire information content is " Von Neumann probes" ( self-replicating machines) colonize the universe in nanotechnology. The possibilities for future information processing this our " cosmic children " will be so powerful that all possible, free of contradiction within universes can be perfectly simulated (see a emulation, that is identical with reality ). This means that then everyone ( then perfected ) man in a virtual universe " resurrected ". In Tipler's eschatology, the speed and amount of information in the Big Crunch is infinite, so there also individual, infinite eternity - the paradise - occurs. "Cheaper altruism " ( treat everyone as well as you want to be treated by him ) of the then living intelligent beings will be the driving force for this simulation run. All intelligent, beloved life (humans, but also pets) is awakened to eternal life because God loves us. Justification for the resurrection is so basically the Agape ( selfless love ) of God. The man then consists of the stuff of which now make up the human mind ( Aristotle: Form in a form ).

Since the speed of information transmission increases to infinity just before Endknall, reigns there in subjective time ever, even though the universe - from the outside - takes only a limited time. Tipler is this state of endless information capacity with God the same. Only in the comparison of the implications of his Omega Point Theory with eschatologies of World Religions leaves Tipler its purely physical line of argument and refers to the much-discussed verse Ex 3.14 EU: where Moses receives his question to YHVH " Who are you? " The answer is: I am the I am or I will be who I will be. The futurist translation is often preferred today by Jewish and Christian theologians. According to Tipler means the verse, God was the one " who exists mainly at the end of time." He interpreted the Holy Spirit quantum mechanically as a universal wave function.

Also, the computer scientist Hans Moravec is in its robotics and transhumanist theses to a similar vision of teleological interpretations of the anthropic principle.

In the professional world Tipler's Omega Point Theory is rejected as scientifically untenable because of its many extremely speculative and conditions of the teleological and religious character in general. The topic is, inter alia, in " The Physics of knowledge of the world " by Prof. David German explained.