by AdmiralTigerclaw » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:09 am
One of the themes I'm actually incorporating into my Fic (you guys know where to find it) is something along the lines of Schrodinger's experiment.
Effectively, when asked the question, 'Why does the universe exist?'
The solution is somewhat existential, but if played the right way, it makes sense.
Why does the universe exist?
Because if it didn't, we wouldn't be here to ask that question.
When you stop to think about it, a sentient... No, a SAPIENT mind is more than just the mass of the matter that makes it up. As humans, we don't just think. When we exercise our creative talents, we generate information from nothing. When you look at spacetime at the sub-nuclear level... It is comprised entirely of energy arranged in patterns. It is INFORMATION.
While we may not be generating matter and energy as we know it, our thoughts are generating low dimensional depictions of complete information systems.
At a certain level, it is possible that 'thought' itself is the real key. The very act of observing the universe pulls it from a probability statistic into existence in a BANG of energy.
Which means that all sapient beings express a certain level of this potential to a tiny degree. However, some, who's minds are given a chance to evolve, to tap the primordial energies of chaos, can observe themselves into godhood. And of course, as Schrodinger's experiement hypothesized on probability... Once it is observed, the probability was ALWAYS 1. IOW, once Tenchi was observed reaching kami-tenchi status... He always had that level of power.
The problem is thus, how do you go about creating this? I hypothesize that what the choushin don't know you need, is to first have a sapience. (As Sapience is where the mind starts concieving possibilities from nothing.) Then the sapience must have the potential to evolve to their level, which narrows it down to a near lottery pick from who-knows how many universes. Then that sapience and potential must be pushed to evolve, and survive until it reaches a critical probability. IE, it requires that it needs to be pushed to its limits repeatedly without destroying it. Once it hits that critical probability, and taps into the highest dimensional levels. It pulls a HHGTTG Heart of Gold....
All minds hold this infinite potential within' their grasp. However, the ability survive long enough (cosmic scale), and the ability to push beyond its limits without being destroyed is even more rare. So it's not like they just spring up very often.
The way I see it, in order to fulfill enough of the situation required the choushin to actually ACCIDENTALLY taint their experiment. Instead of letting things be, they each put their personal interests in Tenchi ahead of the experiement... (Since they had all the time in eternity, literally, to look.) And accidentally fulfilled the criteria about the mind surviving until it could observe itself into ascension.
In short, they accidentally did what they didn't know was required. They incubated Tenchi.