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Thanks, Poppa,

It’s certainly not easy to think outside of the physical laws that we have on this side of the Materialization, although even here we must still gulp at the counterintuitive, such as an electron or photon being everywhere and nowhere until it is summoned into being.

I am figuring that the birth of reality (and the raising of this offspring) may surprise us even more with some counterintuitives. However, there’s not much to go on when we try to reach as far back as is ever possible, through the hazy shadows of 13.5 billion years, and before—to the exciting part of conception. We have to be like Sherlock Holmes and look for meaning in Mother Nature’s scant clues, such as superposition, night-dream reality, what’s the Planck length for, why no perfection of humans, why are the stars so far apart (thwarting any escape from an unstable planet), what timelessness implies, why squirrels run under our cars, and the like.

The Universe has come a long way, although progressing much slower than a crippled snail’s pace, but there are now zillions of interdependencies operating. In some areas, the world seems to be very workable, even where we wouldn’t think so at first glance; for example, worms and bugs may be a nuisance to many, carrying diseases, too, but they aerate the soil and pollinate the plants. As for the mosquito and malaria, perhaps the food chain requires this bug.

Ego, anxiety, and violence perhaps derive from the wariness necessary to the human survival mode on the caveman era and remain with us, still, for only an instant of evolution has passed since then, but these aversive substrates may eventually dissipate. Perfection may come with the future. At any rate, anxiety may have been a necessary phase, such as that which teenagers go through, and might even sharpen one’s wits. Interrelations abound.

The deduction is that Aware probably couldn’t foresee everything at once, although this would have been great, but always heads off in a promising direction. (operating at a “cellular” type level.) The next question is how it operates—to which I can say ‘I don’t know’.

Others, like Nobody, whom I appreciate, conceive that even the above could happen instantly in ‘universal time’, but have to wonder why the ‘DNA of the Universe’ seems to be corrupted, for few humans have perfected their nature to find true happiness.

This counterintuitive idea of ‘universal time’ is, I’m guestimating:

— Mortality —

We are chained to Time, to the speed of light,
A fair price in return for existence;
But, the timeless-formless/potential is free
To conceive all there could be, all at once.

— In No Time—

The probable emerged from the possible,
It’s future already past in an instant,
For everything has already happened,
Although we’re just learning about it now.

— One Sums to the None —

The timeless-formless contains every path,
Though as useless as a library of ALL books;
For, its sum of information is zero,
But, one of these virtualities is ours.

— No-Where and Now-Here —

We shine as unreal and shimmering rainbows,
The stable-virtual still usable as the real,
This differentiation is of potential—
Being there’s no way to maintain Nothing.

This may or not be so, but that’s where we have to look—for extraordinary answers.

For sure, we are thrust into this world, willy-nilly, not knowing where or whence; hence, we enjoy our cognition to take-in the beautiful sights and live the best we can.

Neither God (the opposite of simplicity), nor other forever stuff, nor dumb luck, nor science can fully answer (yet) the ultimate question.

Which reminds me of Omar Khayyam, who says:

Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn
In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;
Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d
And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.