So the Cosmos says to me, Hey, Adam, thanks for pondering me. Says I, \u201cWell, ol\u2019 Cosmos, sir, your cosmos-ness—by the way, what is the proper term of respectful address?— I have not yet come to many conclusions.<\/p>\n
Cosmos: Don\u2019t worry about it, just call me Cosmos. First name basis, kid, that\u2019s us. So what have you concluded? You said \u201cnot many\u201d but you didn\u2019t say \u201cnone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Me: Wow. Hm. Okay, well, for starters I exist, I behold you. I don\u2019t presume to know half of what I \u201cam\u201d but I do know 100% that there\u2019s a subjectivity here and that somehow this is meaningful. It\u2019s clearly not big—space\/mass-wise, but then again, it\u2019s a lot bigger than, say, atoms. But that\u2019s only in the space-time dimension.<\/p>\n
The second thing I\u2019m sure of is that others are here, are real. For example, my wife, Allee, is real. I don\u2019t buy Descartes\u2019 theme that just maybe others are illusions. Doesn\u2019t fit—too artificial. Others are real. Again, though, I don\u2019t know what or who others fully are, nor do I think they themselves know. <\/p>\n
Then, I\u2019m sure (absolutely) that our meeting, me and another, the encounter of our subjectivities, are meaningful, however limited our consciousness may be as we encounter. Beyond those three certainties, increasing mysteries accumulate.<\/p>\n
Cosmos: Well, that\u2019s okay pondering. Ponder away. The evolution of sentience took about 13 billion years for your planet and give or take a couple of hundred million years, sentience is evolving in my body—or let\u2019s say I\u2019m maturing enough to develop this capacity. You know, like sexual maturity—although the analogy is limited—not bad, but limited. <\/p>\n
So I\u2019m thrilled! I get off on people pondering me! I like people wondering, being amazed, astonished, impressed, touched deeply, and I enjoy being enjoyed in so many ways. Because I\u2019m very multi-dimensional, there\u2019s even some pleasure mixed with pain as I help beings struggle towards healing and evolving. Beings grope and make tons of mistakes, and many become extinct, ah, the pity. But that\u2019s the way the cookie crumbles, as you have a 20th century idiom saying. Listen, talk to me again some time. See ya! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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