"If we did not fear death, we might be too quick to kill ourselves when troubled or inconvenienced and thus perish as a species. Belief in life's importance may not be a relfection of reality, then, but an evolutionary reinformed fantasy that prejudices believers to do what is necessary, bear whatever burdens, to survive." (What is Life? - Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan)
"Mind and body, perceiving and living, are edqually self-referring, self-reflexive processes already present in the earlienst bacteria." (ibid) In the mind of nature there is self-incorporated not just what we want but what we need, not just food and water and air to keep us alive but all living things - that is, things which can replicate itself - (all organisms) have perception. To survive all organisms must perceive itself, to seek food and avoid danger; to survive and in humans with our larger thinking brains we must have our fantasies, which we call MIND. It is enjoined with that continuum of all life and perceiving - whether true or not. Whereas, in truth there is no time nor space; there is only now. Hank Roth
