Is There Inevitability to This?

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If you re ran the tape on another planet, would it happen again or not? Or here? Each stage involves expanding the scope of reality that the mind can handle. So molecule minds are lost in an ato tempest. They're dealing with brownie emotion. Just individual atoms hitting them affects them. To get out of that atomic tempest, the chaos at the molecular level, they had to get bigger. But to think bigger, they needed a whole new stage of mind. The inner net has wired all super minds together and all individual human brains together. That's why it's so chaotic. Hat we haven't worked out what these new dynamics will be. At the end of

Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.

Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.