(Continued from page 1.) We pretty much leapt out with these here brains in no time, while the advances in technology and population size have basically engulfed the fragile arrival of civilization/human cooperation while it sorts itself out within ancient clannish and individualist ways.

It is definitely our brand of thought that raises the biggest questions in the continuance of this and other species and the environment:

You can not have missed the big all-deciding contradiction: In the current stage of consciousness and cooperation, the private inflation of the individual puts a strain on other individual efforts when the population grows and we struggle to manage resources, which makes a more scarce and suffocating climate for all of the individuals: ití¢â‚¬â„¢s a contradiction, but we adapt well and work longer and harder and get second or third jobs, no matter how rushed, corner-cutting or path-dependent the culture and its increasingly sectional ambitions become.

This is where we are, call it evolutionary progress í¢â‚¬“ more cures and greater life expectancy í¢â‚¬“ or diversion from the initial thrust of cooperation in the aim of survival: more murder of our own, more extinction and endangerment of others and the environment than life or history has ever seen. Diversion?

If you will, where we are has got us to where we are. Or, it is this biology that has developed this technology, so to say we are what weí¢â‚¬â„¢ve made, and weí¢â‚¬â„¢ve made a world from what we are. Wanting to do better is also part of the making and the determined mind it makes from. Because there is this innate will to endure, to exist, but this does not mean that we have evolved an integrated sense of common need, selflessness and foresight, or that we are ready to feed ourselves, cure ourselves and make peace. But that is just where we are. Nevertheless, the presidentí¢â‚¬â„¢s bottom line after he declared war was, í¢â‚¬Å“America, go shopping.í¢â‚¬  Since when do humans know what they want? Yet where we are cannot be bad, it is where we are, hello even if it is not enough to carry us through, because í¢â‚¬“ maybe - this time the adaptability of the í¢â‚¬Å“fittestí¢â‚¬  means a naive course of self-destruction.

I often use this acceptance to springboard beyond where I am. And that is really whatí¢â‚¬â„¢s at stake, isní¢â‚¬â„¢t it?: The evolution of consciousness.

But if this is where we are, here, now; could it be then that the evolution of consciousness does not occur in time?

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