ABSTRACT
The universe, life, consciousness and selfhood are such amazing and complex entities that there has to be an even more complex cause: god, soul, intelligent designers. Such self-organizing structures are ubiquitous in nature, said Prigogine. A laser is a self-organizing system in which particles of light, photons, can spontaneously group themselves into a single powerful beam that has every photon moving in lockstep. A hurricane is a self-organizing system powered by the steady stream of energy coming in from the sun, which drives the winds and draws rainwater from the oceans. In terms of selfhood, we can say that the function of this boundary is experience. If there were no physical boundary where experience, a rubbing up against a sensitive boundary, could occur, there would be nothing on which we could base an intuition of selfhood or otherness.
