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We know about how Matter and Energy are interchangeable. But does it hold meaning beyond just the physical nature of things?
When we create something, anything, be it a substance like food, to make poetry, to give birth to a baby. Are we not somehow converting energy into something?
More interesting is creating something that cannot be touched or felt. It's a mental experience — like in the case of a song, poetry, or something to motivate us, to create or invoke an emotion, call to some action. We are indeed using energy to make these, from solar to starch, then oxidation in mitochondria of the cells, and leading up to neurons firing in unison, and then through our senses back to neurons, we create things that are long lived in human conscience.
We have learned through these creations to off-load things of value, but those which do not invoke our conscience to machines. While we humans increase our time to work on things that grow our conscience, expand our learning of ourselves, and the mysteries of the cosmos. We will continue to do so, as we are always in conflict with not knowing who and why we are.
A well lived life is one of a man, not a machine. Questioning why things are how they are, and ever expanding our conscience is the ultimate goal of our conscience to learn and understand itself. However, goals are again finite and something a machine can produce, not a man. The difference between a machine and a man is producing something finite, to something that cannot be produced (not something infinite).
Om Shiva (The one true formless)
