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     fatherofaking Senior Member Username: fatherofaking Post Number: 2372 Registered: 8-2005 Posted From: 70.16.219.231 |
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| fatherofaking Senior Member Username: fatherofaking Post Number: 2383 Registered: 8-2005 Posted From: 70.16.219.231 |
As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before. (Julian Huxley) We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. (Carl Sagan) |
