It's obvious.

by Joel
(Irvington, NY)

Look...start with this:

All life on Earth IS the Earth, literally and concretely.

Life is a bubbling efflorescence of the substance of the Earth, and the stardust of which it is composed.

And since I know that I am conscious, and that other human beings, dogs, cats, birds, etc., have their own consciousnesses...

...then I know that the Earth--and therefore that of which it is composed--is capable of consciousness.

The Earth itself is conscious, and my consciousness is but one--temporary--light of that consciousness.

And if the Earth is conscious, and it is just part of the substance of the Universe, why then it is no great stretch to understand that the Universe is conscious.

Cicero wrote: "Why do you deny that the Universe is a conscious intelligence, since it gives birth to conscious intelligences?"

Glorious it is to be a cone in the retina of the Eye of God. (I wrote that.)