Life's
destination is a vanishing horizon,
retreating before the advancing thread of awareness
as it learns new ways to gather, process and respond to information.
Individual beings - on the
scale of a cell, a multicellular creature,
a species, or an ecosystem - are embedded
within a vast network
of intercommunications.
Each being perceives itself as the focus of these forces, just as we
see the path of sunlight on the sea coming directly into our own eyes. Each being
perceives other beings as individual entities.
The network of intercommunications that creates all the beings,
determining their relationships and their future, is beyond the horizon of any one's
perceptions. But not beyond ours.
The thread
of awareness is invisible to itself.
We understand signals from the world around
us, but not the systems we use to gather
these signals, process them, or form an
understanding in our minds. The mechanisms
of sight are transparent to creatures with
eyes. So too, the evolution of the thread
of awareness is beyond
the horizon of understanding because
we are the process
of becoming.
Desire is the driving force
Evolution has a driving force - the desire and the will to survive.
Survival depends on intelligence - the ability to perceive changes in the surrounding
environment, evaluate these changes, and respond.
Each individual being - bacteria, cell, multicellular organism,
species - learns new ways to use its own abilities, based on its heritage of abilities,
knowledge and relationships with other beings and systems.
Over the millennia, the thread of awareness has voyaged steadily
towards the vanishing horizon of knowledge and understanding, with every new discovery
leading to an expanding universe of questions.
For more on how
life seeks its own destination, go to the
evolution of the
cat, of finches,
and of life. For a look at the structure of this process,
and how to participate in experiencing it,
go to The Torus
Concept.
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