Magical Thinking

Magical thinking: 

it's magical thinking too, perhaps more so, that consciousness emerges from specific ingredients of matter that produce a chemical reaction, an energetic activity that is exclusive to the brain, and the cause of our awareness. To believe that consciousness is based upon physical means is as magical as any other theory proposed. I'm not saying that it's wrong, nor am I offering a more panpsychism view, although that is the direction I tend to lean towards in my belief. What I offer here is mystery, alchemy, however consciousness appears is magical...

and no less so that it might be dependent on matter, ingredients created from the Big Bang, elements that must be arranged in such precise manner as to produce the awareness that we're alive, existing within an infinite universe of possibilities and that somehow we defied the odds of being here at all. We're creatures of magic however we appeared. 

magical thinking indeed.

science often overlooks motive, not being really concerned with reasons, nor asking questions beyond how something has occurred. Science doesn't really deal with why things happen as they do. That seems more in the realm of philosophy, theology, or the curiosity of a child. Maybe there's just too much regression in asking why, with every answer being traced back further with another question and we are left once more with mystery. That's actually fine with me, everything left wide open, not knowing, and more so - being left without the need to know an absolute why of our existence. 

anything we say is just a theory after all, not the true Tao as the ancient sages urge us to remember. We should keep asking why for the very sake of this regression, each question a returning point to mystery, and it's here that we ultimately exist. Not knowing. Adrift amidst possibilities. Magical. 

indeed. 

~

Peace, Eric