Monday, April 18, 2011

Things that should fill you with awe...

  • The unimaginable vastness of the universe.
  • That the properties of the universe are conducive (perhaps even almost optimally conducive) to life.
  • That the apparently mindless process of evolution can, and even tends to, result in forms of increasing complexity, beauty, and value.
  • That there is something rather than nothing.
  • That qualia exist.
  • That some form of freedom invades our deterministic world.
  • The unreasonable tenacity of life.
  • That our universe seems to be a computation.
  • That we can understand our universe and that such understanding enables control.
  • That the future is boundless.
  • That our existence required miracles so unimaginably unlikely as to boggle the mind.


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