Materialism is Dead

[Ahanu]

Well, I do not mind Sci-fi. Enjoyed Star Trek and various books by Sci-fi writers (Gamow, etc.). But now I am past that age. I still do not get what higher consciousness may be.

I can only describe the effects they would have in our world. How can the lower comprehend the higher?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Did you watch this short video, in the above post?

I am sorry, RJM. Due to my hearing problem, I do not watch videos. I will take out my hearing aid and see if the video is clear to me. Just once, that is the problem with me. Was it not a gradual change like it happened for humans?

I can only describe the effects they would have in our world. How can the lower comprehend the higher?

We will think about them (I mean, I may not be there, but our future generations might do that) when we encounter any of them.

 

[RJM]

am sorry, RJM. Due to my hearing problem, I do not watch videos. I will take out my hearing aid and see if the video is clear to me. Just once, that is the problem with me. Was it not a gradual change like it happened for humans?

Oh I understand! I do apologise, Aup. Sorry

 

[RJM]

@Aupmanyav
I sometimes watch and listen to videos and podcasts on my phone, with earphones (earbuds actually) on the bus, but earphones/buds also work with PC or laptop. Earbuds are cheap -- not so much the wireless Bluetooth ones. Some videos come with English subtitles, such as the one I linked earlier, part of the article here:

it's not what biologists say.

"There are multiple, independent lines of evidence to support the hypothesis that eukaryotes evolved from an endosymbiotic event between an ancient archaean cell and an ancient aerobic bacterium:"
https://organismalbio.biosci.gatech.edu/biodiversity/eukaryotes-and-their-origins/#:~:text=Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes&text=The leading hypothesis, called the,an ancient, aerobic bacterial cell.

It only happened once in the entire history of life on earth, and never happened again after that. It's one of the great mysteries. A virtually impossible event, but it happened, or there'd be no higher life on earth. It's why the chance of higher life on other worlds is regarded as extremely low, although there may be a reasonable chance of bacterial life.

That's why scientists are looking for a better explanation than endosymbiosis for the origin of eukaryotes, but they haven't found one and most agree that a single one-off endosymbiosis 'quantum leap' event is the best explanation

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There's so much information in video format nowadays. There should be a you tube button for English subtitles ... *

* Go to You Tube Settings > Captions > English sub titles

However I understand it becomes a difficult excercise in speed reading while trying to watch a video at the same time ...

Not ideal