h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

this self you see is nothing more
than ephemera - digitized shadows on
a screen - if i lay enough words down
that make sense you might distinguish
a voice & that perhaps is all of me -
a thinking self but I think i think
on different levels and often i dont
think at all - which is the opposite
of cogito ergo sum : like : i don't
think therefor i'm not - so what's to
buy into : my god is material as is
all creation, the spirit moving us no
matter what we will as we are inex-
tricably part of it - who can argue
that we are not - and given our shaky
state of consciousness - how often are
we - our will can only will what we
think we will which in actual fact is
negligible as it requires action out-
side of the mind's control and that's
the only freedom we enjoy - the mind
can will nothing without employing the
body in physical exertion - so our
freedom is not the freedom we like to
think it is as we are truly creatures
of creation and cannot will ourselves
to be otherwise - which brings me back
to the ephemeral me, midge on a summer's
day - blink and I'm not there - blow a
fuse and the screen goes blank

but i wonder if there is another side
to us - science is largely an illusion
- see Kelvin who thought the sun was a
coal pile, that it could not have been
around long enough for evolution to take
place which almost put the kibosh to
Darwin's theory - but with Darwin and
Kelvin dead, Becquerel discovered radio
activity which gave others the idea to
theorise and finally prove that the sun's
energy was derived from nuclear fusion
and it was billions instead of millions
of years old and that the earth too was
terribly ancient which gave Darwin's
Theory of Evolution the credence required
by showing that indeed, the fossil record
was correct - there had been enough time
for species to evolve - Kelvin and the
science of his day had been proved wrong
and that only one hundred years ago - so
should we look at the science of today
and agree with its presumptions - I don't
think so - there are too many unanswered
questions and the blip that is out brief
life may be something other than what we
assume