The Arrogance and Selfishness of Conciousness
Today i was confronted with an interesting observation of life.
If perhaps on the other end of the universe, or a point in the universe far away enough such that light had to travel through millions of years; and that therein existed a star system with lifeforms which had modern-day human intelligence with societies possibly more advanced. And this star system by virtue of some cosmic phenomena were to implode and self destruct, effectively wiping out all planets and the lifeforms and their relative societies and communities that rivaled our own that inhabited it; sending light radiating in all directions, including one towards our own solar system.
And in another part of space a few million years into the future from this event and a few million lightyears away from it, which i as the omnipotent divinity of my imagination and this scenario would set - as the present in our terms; We imagine a university student perhaps camping with his mates on a field trip, in the desert on a cold cloudless night. Out of curiousity, this student stares up into the starry sky up above, and sees a small flash of light, no larger than a speck of grime and no longer than a heartbeat. A twinkering of the stars.
And with that i shall end my philosophical scenario and start with its philosophical counterpart.
Would he be able to comprehend the course of events ? and even if he was told everything i have told you in the previous paragraphs, would he be able to take in fully with his conciousness this entire destruction of a solar system that was similiar to the very one he is standing on and living in and the resultant death of an entire plethora of species of lifeforms of varying intelligence, of millions of years of evolution and the willpower expended by said lifeforms to terraform their planets and systems. Millenias of strife, war, suffering, peace and progress that resembled our own ? All the questions and conciousness of life and the universe built ontop of each other resulting in permeating layers cyclic and ad infinitum of understanding, knowledge and will. The answer is he would not. For even with his vast and limitless conciousness and intelligence (as human) that we have so extolled in our civilizations, simply for the fact that he is 1 human and 2 a self-concious being, he can never grasp the true significance and sheer divinity of this alien civilization and its existential cycle. Neither can I and especially not you, my dear average reader.
And all this as a speck of light, again, no larger than a speck of grime and no longer than a heartbeat.
The destruction not of physical bodies or materials, not of the large ziggurats these lifeforms might have built , but the destruction and end of conciousness and imagination, a seemingly voidless entity within ourselves which when compared, is still insubstantial, to a collective greater civilization and its cummulative conciousness a few million years ago and a few million lightyears away.
And how many people would listen to this and just live on ? How many of us, perhaps including myself (idavertently, my (human) memory fails on occasion) will continue being oblivious to the ways of the world and of a greater divinity than our own. How many people would continue living their lives in their fucked up societies and complain about their fucked up lives and muse and work towards obtaining the petty goals they have set up for themselves and worst maybe others for them. And is it not shocking how much more relevence this has when we relate it with our lives and in the context of our societies which; in a few milliseconds in the extended future, in the lives of our progeny, would all end only to repeat itself. Consume and distill it all. and Then Behold, This is the sheer ignorance and pettiness the human condition has for its own existence and the existence of all life and being. I am repulsed by it, yet for such insignificant objectives of a beings life (when compared to the cycle of worlds) and the defacto knowledge of the plausibility of this chain of events, motivated by pure selfishness, I have to live on.
As do you.
And in the end of said observation, i cannot help but feel that perhaps all life and conciousness - however profound - will always only amount to so little in our lives.
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