The human burden of Awareness.

The human burden of Awareness.

Our species like many others is turned towards the past and in our case it is accompanied by feelings of superiority. Our history is dogged with actions that assume everything else that exists is below our race. Even other humans have been branded inferior and that still happens today. But there is another way, another more essential view that allows humankind to reach a greater potential. Humans are part of the chain of evolution and that which follows comes about because we are a link in the progress towards greater awareness and not the summit of its perfection.

Such a prospect is worthy of scientific consideration but it also offers great reward for those of religious faith. I believe it is inevitable that awareness of the universe will continue to expand through nature's modes of constructive evolution and not by the manipulations of our species. But the logic of this process means it is probable awareness will continue to improve its mastery of time and move beyond enhanced memory towards enhanced prescience.

 

Many species already have the ability to employ the future. Reaction times are one of the evolutionary paths to this end. But so too is knowledge and awareness of the workings of the universe. We know the sun will come up tomorrow and that it will burn brightly for billions of years to come. We know these things beyond the understanding of most other creatures that exist today but we will be surpassed by things that can master the paths of time. If this is so then future time being so vast will inevitably evolve creatures that willingly or involuntarily reach back to us.  However we with the poorer senses may not recognise this even though their influence would then be present in our current world.

In this scenario inspirations will appear, unreasonable jumps in understanding will materialise without there being any contradiction in the laws of time. But we know these mysteries already it is only their origin that we question.