quoting Mr. Wright

"...the fact that life on earth isn't inhabited by ...zombies is a source of great and perhaps eternal perplexity."

-Robert Wright. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, page 321

Indeed. Robert Wright is an author of intrigue. His book Nonzero portrays a history of humanity's humanity in a sense. This one aforementioned line struck me. –a couple paragraphs later, in the same book, Wright quotes philosopher David Chalmers… I might as well include the quote:

“ ‘It seems God could have created the world physically exactly like this one, atom for atom, but with no consciousness at all. And it would have worked just as well. But our universe isn’t like that. Our universe has a consciousness.’ For reasons unknown, God decided ‘to do more work’ in order ‘to put consciousness in.’ …By ‘God’ Chalmers doesn’t mean a guy with a white beard. Most philosophers use the term at least as vaguely as I’m using it: it refers to whoever, whatever –if any being, any process –specified the laws of the universe.”

I recommend this book. It’s an interesting and contentious read.

But I have not created a blog to promote this book, nor quote Mr. Wright. Rather, I want explore this innate consciousness, the intricate details of this eternal perplexity. I am not sure where this blog will end up or how it may evolve. But let it be a space for creativity, comments, the sharing of ideas, -a little corner of web-space dedicated to the things we love, the feelings we endure, the movements of hair, the patterns of snowflakes, the smoothness of shells, the vastness of space, the diversity of laughter, the acts of goodness, the humanness of error and the power of unity.

Mr. Wright, the fact that life on earth isn’t inhabited by zombies is a source of great and perhaps eternal joy and Love.

-Zina