I Know Not Whence I

Whence Come I And Whither Go I? That Is The Great Unfathomable Question. Science Has No Answer To It.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

[a Living Organism] ... Feeds Upon Negative Entropy ... Thus The Device By Which An Organism Maintains Itself Stationary At A Fairly High Level Of Orderliness (= Fairly Low Level Of Entropy) Really Consists In Continually Sucking Orderliness From Its Environment.

Quantum Physics Thus Reveals A Basic Oneness Of The Universe.

Consciousness Is Never Experienced In The Plural, Only In The Singular. Not Only Has None Of Us Ever Experienced More Than One Consciousness, But There Is Also No Trace Of Circumstantial Evidence Of This Ever Happening Anywhere In The World. If I Say That There Cannot Be More Than One Consciousness In The Same Mind, This Seems A Blunt Tautology - We Are Quite Unable To Imagine The Contrary...