Awareness is one of our gifts but like that of speech if it isn't exercised its utility is constrained.
Awareness shouldn't be taken for granted for to do so means you miss its future. But in order to appreciate what the future holds we need to cherish our past and the mystery of there having been a vast reach of time in which it seemed the universe existed and evolved with nothing able to know that it was there at all. Then consider where we are, us humans, a species of apes who consider themselves the current pinnacle of the evolutionary chain. Consider the constraints that have limited other species in their appreciation of the universe and know that our special gifts too will one day be surpassed. And we will remain unknowing of that which has evolved beyond the ripples it leaves upon our lives. Each step of evolution suffers the mysteries surrounding more advanced life and time destines that each mystery grows until we are no more.
And yet we can have some clues about our own limitations. We know 'survival of the fittest' is a prime driver of evolution which mandates that the senses which give us awareness of the environment are the major element for future evolution. But the element of awareness has also evolved in parallel with the senses and will continue to do so.
So we can know that awareness is not just a concept, it is a tool, a reality that seems to have no rational place in a mechanistic universe. And as awareness inevitably evolves there are always new aspects that remain unknown to beings in different parts of the evolutionary chain. So a dog doesn't know that colour exists and a tree has no idea of human emotions nor of different lands. And we in turn cannot know of senses yet to emerge as life evolves beyond that which makes us human. This is our mystery and it is one whose paradox tears at the fabric of humankind.
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