First of all ...
I would like to say that our brains seem far too powerful for our feeble carbon-based bodies. It's like every day people are dying with all this incredible knowledge and insight in their heads. In general, I would say that only a small percentage of one's knowledge is effectively transferred to the next generation. But the fact that we aren't using stone tools anymore is proof that some of the knowledge is sticking.
But there is something beautiful about the vainness of life. It's like the person you passionately love but can never have, or the dreams you always had but never materialized.
Life is vain
But for us writers and poets, vanity is beautiful stuff. Great leaders, scholars, scientists, all die every day. This week we lost Senator Gaylord Nelson, a wonderful environmentalist. And we lost Bessie Smith - an aspiring blues singer of the 1930s who died in a car accident. How beautiful. It's as if we are all charging forward in a great battle, and we all get mowed down one by one.
Just for a Moment ...
Now when we watch aliens on the sci-fi channel we imagine they are a few hundred years more advanced than us. But what if there is a society out there that is a MILLION years ahead of us?
Here is my prediction. Let's say there is a race on another planet that's a few thousand years ahead of us. By then, I believe, they will have entered the "mechanical age." By that, I mean this advanced species will have replaced organics with mechanics. In other words, advanced creatures will dump their fragile bodies and move their consciousness into machines. They will live for hundreds of years, never get sick, and just enjoy being conscious. After a few thousand years, or tens of thousands of years, these beings will find a way to even dump their mechanical life support systems. Then all they will be is "consciousness." See, consciousness is the essence of the Universe. These creatures are already out there, some call them God.
Canary, have you been sniffing glue????
One of the great mysteries is why we have so much of our brain that is unused, or that we seem to have a truly infinite ability to learn. I'm sure some scientist will say that our brain IS COMPLETELY USED, we just haven't figured out what for yet.
In Conclusion
I will have to say that my short stint as an organic creature has been quite a trip. Every day I feel like I'm just watching a video out of my eyes — like all of life is a long movie. There are so many mysteries about life, and to really make things confusing, you have all these religious folks and theorists throwing ideas at you, and you are stuck with the job of sorting them all out. I can see why it's so much easier to just grab on to whatever story your parents tell you and stick with it.
The Canary
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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