Reply #113: Well said.

[Shardik]

There's an argument as to how flawed we are as a species as well. Without the societies we have built, we would wither and die. A dog or a cockroach is better equipped to survive in nature than a human.

There are vast possibilities as to alternative life forms (many of which we have not yet even imagined) that may be eons ahead of where humans are or eons behind. There's no way of telling at this point.

Life is not much more than energy focused in a particular area as in a single entity. We are energy and cannot be destroyed according to the laws of thermodynamics. Just transfered.

As to consciousness of energy or the individual? That's way over my pay grade. But I'd like to hope that down the road we do find at least some sort of remedial consciousness of energy as it seems to follow the same laws over and over.

Damn. Now I have a headache. :)