THE REWARD
59successful life
Billions of years before the Milky Way galaxy and its myriad constituents became a reality, somewhere, countless trillions of light years into the abyss of infinite space, a nascent life form began it's perilous journey through the painfully slow and tedious processes of evolution.
It began on a planet which found itself situated within the unplanned, balanced geometry of other cosmic bodies spinning around in the nuclear heat of a small star.
All the fortuitous chemical and electrical elements existed which provided the leaven for the creation of simple life.
This exact process must have preceeded itself countless times in a universe with no end, no beginning, no limitations and harboring mysteries which the pristine minds of primitive earthlings could not begin to conceive.
With the passage of aeons of time, somehow, intelligent life emerged and flourished. Life had succeeded. It understood and synergized with the simplicity and complexities of its surroundings. It grew in harmony with the natural tenets of its universe.
Evolution is tenacious in its attempts to mutate existent life into perfection.
Through the Darwinian process of "natural selection," and with survival and the continual advancement of the intellectual abilities of their BEING formost in their thoughts, with existing in concert with their world in mind, the brain became ineradicably more and more dynamic. Its kinetic abilities continually developed through the ages and rendered the use of the mechanical, unnecessary.
Contemporary living on earth requires the use of a protoplasmic mass, called the human body, to do the bidding of the mind.
The mind without the body is a useless blob of organic cells. It has not yet, at this aboriginal level of evolution, developed any kinetic ability whatsoever.
It will take possibly, hundreds of thousands of years of successful evolution for man to have reached the kind of mental development whereby he can, through the kinetic process, think something into reality.
The potential is there, but time is the enemy. Man has not yet learned to exist in harmony with surrounding reality.
Somewhere in the frigid depths of deep space, successful, fully realized life..."HAS!
In the unending vastness of space, beyond the stars of the evening sky, outside human ability to dream, an ethereal power beyond intellect, a power that transcends protoplasm, a power which is pure dynamics, unadulterated energy, plys the depth and breadth of the most abysmal chasms of space.
It has survived the tests of the ages. It has answered all the questions right! It has succeeded in dispossessing itself of the limiting fetters of mass, to become gloriously omnipotent! It has become FREE! It can with the power inherent in simple thought, escape the limiting force of gravity. It can "WIll" itself to accomplish anything it desires. It is pure knowledge! It is the totality of every past exerience. It can relate to everything organic and inorganic.
To a simple minded, unevolved human being, it would be referred to as..."god!"... but it is no more, no less, than the final reward of successful life!
If humankind exists long enough to understand and put to good use the simple fiats demanded by nature to insure it's survival, it, too, may realize that final reward!
To those far removed powerful entities which freely roam the heavens and understand all that we so benightedly seek, our tiny planet and our self wrought strife, would not warrant a second glance. More than likely, not the first!
Qwark
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Shahid...today's fiction it tomorrows reality. Ty for your reply.
Qwark
The Ultima Thule of great science fiction writers.
It could just as easily be a reality, beyond our comprehension, that has existed for eons.
everything is "possible."
Qwark, you are a mystic at heart. There is no such thing as a being of pure knowledge. There is the knower and there is the knowledge. Blur the lines and merge it all together, and you are left with nothing and everything all wrapped in one. Kind of the state the Buddhists aspire to.
Hi aya:
Not at all..:-)
I see "fully realized" life as the the goal of evolution.
I visualize "THAT" life as having no vestigial remnants of prior existence except that that life now exists as pure "intelligent energy."
The "known" universe is only about 14.7 billion years old. In terms of geologial time, that is but a blink of an eye. Beyond the "known" universe exists space. Within that "space" exists mysteries we primitive creatures cannot imagine.
I can conceive of forms of life which exist which have "evolved" to become dynamic forces which can ply the abysses of limitless space by simple "will." These "forces" would not be limited by the laws of physics. They would be profoundly involved in the processes of limitless and eternal "evolution."
They would own a Capacity or potential for "absolute" effective action.
They would exist as Einsteins: E=MC2!!
Please read my profile Aya...that in itself may explain "ME" to you.
Thanks again my science fiction pal..:-)
Qwark
Let us hope we do not wipe ourselves out before we get the chance to become "all we can be." :)
Hi Mark:
Thanks for the response and for reading this "hub."
As "Coldwar" says, (paraphrase) the movement has already begun.
I don't think we'll get the chance to be "all-we-can-be."
Fingers crossed...I'm wrong.
No - I think you are correct. Certainly if the religionists have their way, we will not get the chance.
A pity really. I always wonder what knowledge was destroyed in the dark ages - because this is the biggest fear for them - that we all become god.
Mark;
Whatever the hell that is. :-)
You just supported the theory of advanced alien life out there, somewhere... Awesome!
Obscure:
To me, it's not a theory, but of course, until it can be proved to exist, it will remain a "theory."
Thanks for reading and commenting.
After reading your "stuff," I know you understand where I'm comin' from. ...:-)
Damn right; I've always believed in "alien life"... Nice hub, by the way!
Oh they're out there.
Whether or not they've found us? Who knows.
They'd be so far beyond our abilities that they might consider us to be life on the level of nematodes.
Much appreciated Obscure!
nice writing Quark, very nice.
i am in "kahoots" with Aya - you are a mystic at heart.
how great Free Will.
cheers. :)
21DAys:
I'm shocked!
I wouldn't have expected that response from you. Thank you!
Of course I disagree with both you and Aya. but that's what makes life interesting.
It would be a very boring place if we all agreed.
You and your comment are appreciated.
The knower and the known are not a fact. They are based on conceptual knowledge only. The only thing we can be sure of is the fact of Knowing.....experience is real, not the experiencer or the thing experienced. Seeing is real while the seen and the seer depend on the limitations of a conscious being.
TY Ashmi:
The "conscious being" I speak of, would exist as a "force," an "intelligence, exceeding far beyond human sentience and ability to imagine.
I appreciate your response.
Hi Qwark, yes I agree with you. I was taking issue with Aya Katz. When we realise that the knower and the known appear at the same time making them one and the same we will have transcended the illusion of separation and become One with all as the knower and the known will have disappeared. Duality of subject/object will vanish and only knowing will remain. The non-dual state of the eternal possibility.
Ashmi:
"...only knowing will remain."
There you have it!
Who's to say that that "existence" has not already been realized?
You are appreciated!
Loved your hub qwark, better late than never. I'll say that part of what I do is bridging to what you are seeing. I see it also and there are methodical ways of achieving this level of awareness. Aspire that we don't completely destroy the planet before it can be experienced here. But if that's the case, we'll find another rock to trash most likely, in the pursuit of our greatness!
Hi Jewel: Quite right! if we found another world to inhabit, at this stage of our evolution, we'd most likely trash it too...lol
Thanks for reading and responding....:-)
Quark:
Of course All Things Are Possible.
One point on which we differ is your contention that humans are a species beneath the notice of highly evolved entities. Since evolving involves learning, and learning requires curiosity, it would follow that uber-beings would be extremely curious and fascinated by our ego-exerting, emotional-driven erratic behaviors. Our antics would serve as the equivalent of Realilty TV for such beings...guilty pleasures.
Whether there exists a God or god-like creatures, there are things that we humans can do that God can not. We can struggle and strive, question and wonder, be aware of our mortality yet be determined to survive, exist isolated in a protoplasmic shell while needing to connect and share, and persevere while always facing the vast unknown...in short, be born, live and die.
The immortal can not face the inevitability of death; the omniscient don't wonder; the rational aren't driven by emotion.
Consider: can the knowing imagine?
I think you tend to unjustifiably denigrate your species.
CP
Chris:
First, thanks for taking the time to read this "hub." :-)
This is a very thoughtful response.
Firstly, I just follow suit. My species has done an impressive job of denigrating itself.
Anyone, and I'm sure you are one of them, who has studied the history of the human species, can't deny that.
"The immortal need not face the inevitability of death; the omniscient don't wonder; the rational aren't driven by emotion.
I cannot "imagine" the "immortal or the omniscient" existing at his stage of human evolution. in science fiction? Oh yes.
You are correct: the "rational" are emotional but not driven by it.
I cannot "intellectually" consider your reference to whatever this "god" thing is so I'll skip by it.
The "uber beings" would be so advanced that they'd pay no more heed to life on this planet than would you pay attention to momentary life on an 'electron" whizzing around the nucleus of an atom.
"THEY" may already exist!
I appreciate your thoughts. :-)
Qwark
Nice piece OLD MAN!
Mornin' Fadedsnow:
I used to be a great "piece." :)
Those that exist at that level of evolution are the extremities of the "singularity."
Thanks for reading and responding!
Qwark
Enjoyed it immensely. Hope our race makes it long enough to fulfill your fantasy.
Hi curious:
The possibility exists. The probability? Your guess is as good as any!
Glad ya enjoyed it.
Thanks for the comment! :):
Qwark
Syed Hasan shahid Bukhari 2 years ago
My :Dear Qwark
Excellent Theoretical Fiction, I have enjoyed reading.
Regards