Understanding Science
Science And Philosophy
Science And Creation
NESFA Collections Vol 2
Consciousness is an accidental byproduct of two unconscious processes:
(i) All energy flows downhill but a small fraction of it temporarily increases order instead of disorder. Life is like a water mill.
(ii) Consciousness is a byproduct of natural selection. Organisms are selected for sensitivity to environmental alterations until some sensitivity becomes sensation which is then selected because pleasure and pain have survival value.
Metaphorically, our lives are conducted inside the artificial structure of human society, also within its ecological support system, but outside and surrounding us in every direction is the unconscious cosmic process of increasing entropy.
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