Suppose we could empathically communicate with a quantum (the smallest possible element of anything in nature) as it tries to deploy its formative tendency (everything in nature tends to become more 'complex' [to grow, to become alive, etc.]), what would we come to understand of it?
Suppose I were a quantum, how would I feel? I imagine a hunger, a craving perhaps. An unspecified urge to become something; anything. Or perhaps merely a playful impulse, based on the security that from who I am now, I can expect only growth. There is no way I can get any smaller, no way to get any less specified. Once I have actualized into whatever phenomenon, I will have forgotten I was once a quantum. There was no way for me to record my quantum experience of being merely a wish to become. No senses, no memory, no language. Once I have actualized, I will be part of whatever I have actualized into, perhaps into an experience of a human being. All of a sudden I will take part in that person’s consciousness, not knowing that I came from somewhere else. I will be that person’s past, in which she herself (who is now me) was something of which she is not aware any more. Nevertheless, along with me the wish that once defined me has now become part of her also. I contribute to her wishing for something, as do all the other quanta that bundle up to form this person. I realize that nothing has changed, really: to be a person is still a wish to become. [derived entirely from Ton Baggerman]. |