On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:05 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are We Really Conscious? > By MICHAEL S. A. GRAZIANO > > OF the three most fundamental scientific questions about the human > condition, two have been answered. > > First, what is our relationship to the rest of the universe? Copernicus > answered that one. We’re not at the center. We’re a speck in a large place. > What is at the centre of the Universe, if the Universe does have a centre? Or does everything appear to be moving away from everything equally in all directions, and the Universe appears equally deep in all directions from every point in space? If the Universe is an expanding sphere, where is the centre? Samiya > > Second, what is our relationship to the diversity of life? Darwin answered > that one. Biologically speaking, we’re not a special act of creation. We’re > a twig on the tree of evolution. > > ... > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-conscious.html?ref=opinion > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
