Evolution of Intelligence (Origins)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 15:16 (4041 days ago) @ dhw

DHW: I'd forgotten Tony's earlier references to the Qabala (my apologies), which BBella remembers: "[what I call] the 'All that Is' [could be the] nebulous, having no form, purpose, intelligence, personality, infinite and unknowable." -Nothing to apologize for. :)->DHW:The next stage, though, is an "awakening to awareness". This is the great conundrum. How did "the nebulous" become aware (let alone self-aware)? For this to happen, it must have something to be aware of. Perhaps we can agree that the "nebulous" is energy, which mindlessly transmutes itself into chunks of matter, each of which contains its own "portion" of energy. The form this energy takes is temporary ... matter always changes ... but the energy is not temporary. If we accept that somewhere along the line, energy became aware (and changing matter is what it became aware of), the awareness would be that of the energy within the matter. In answer to BBella, this is the form of "panpsychism" I'm suggesting: not a single self-aware entity, but multiple germs of "intelligent energy" within multiple chunks of matter (not necessarily in ALL matter), i.e. an individually developing awareness of change from within, rather than universal awareness of nothing in particular. 
> -The problem I see with this idea of 'chunking' is uniformity. If there were multiple intelligence each doing their own thing, we would expect to see much more chaos and much less organization. Instead, what we see is beautifully orchestrated, exceedingly complex unity, harmony, and balance. Intelligence implies an ego of sorts. Perhaps not in the way we normally think of the term, but in the sense that each intelligence would have its own agenda to work towards. The chaos that is humanity has proven that true in a most obvious fashion. When everyone works towards their own individual goals, there can be no harmony. There had to be a single unifying purpose in order for the harmony and unity that we OBSERVE to have happened.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.