To a god, life is a single organism proliferating in all directions all over the earth, and now on the moon and Mars, and the whole process from the first of the protobionts to George Dorn and fellow humans takes no longer than It's like one of those Walt Disney films where you watch a plant growing before your eyes and the whole cycle from bud to fruit takes about two minutes. So, from the point of view of a god or of the universe, things evolve very quickly. The whole lifetime of this universe would be to him no more than the amount of time it takes to watch a movie. Suppose the lifetime of your typical basic god was a hundred quintillion years. How fast do ten billion years go? To a god they might go very fast indeed. And the universe is only ten billion years old. April 29 - And what the hell does it mean to say that life shouldn't change too rapidly? How fast is evolution? Do you measure it in terms of lifetime? A year is more than a lifetime to many kind of animals, while seventy years is an hour in the lifetime of a sequoia.The human race has always lived more or less happily in the kingdom of the blind. So, when the Knights Templar meet the Hashishin, something new is born. The Arabs, say, have one part of the puzzle. It increases the gene-pool of the imagination. That's why cultural cross-fertilization is so important. In their first form, they are like tiny, imperceptible mutations that may eventually lead to new species. New ideas have to be around a while before anyone will promote them hard. The first man to think a new thought advances it very tentatively. It is hard to get beyond the accepted beliefs of one's own age. But nobody's perception of reality is the same as everybody's notion of it, which means that the most objective person is the real schizophrenic. Which means that it is nothing but acceptance of everybody else's notion of reality. April 24 - Objectivity is presumably the opposite of schizophrenia.
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