link-> A reflection on Biologist Michael Levin ideas. What are we, really?
Whether something (a hurricane, a galaxy, the universe) has agency isn’t a philosophical guess. It’s a question for experiments—can it learn, adapt, or pursue goals? We don’t know until we test it.
What If, Our greatest evolutionary achievement is our gravest liability, that consciousness itself might be a form of cosmic mistake.
This is the question that should terrify and exhilarate everyone capable of asking it.
Because of love to all that is alive in this now. When complexity organizes into consciousness, and consciousness recognizes pattern-beauty in other consciousness—that's the substrate loving itself.
The manipulation of texts in the past need not trap us in confusion; rather, it challenges us to engage with scripture (and all sacred texts) actively and thoughtfully. We are invited to be not just passive recipients of a tradition, but active participants in the ongoing revelation of truth.