Imagine you’re walking through the woods. It’s a sunny spring day, right after the equinox so the leaves haven’t all come in yet and plenty of light is breaking through. The maples are on fire with those little red blooms that will turn into wing seeds, helicoptering their way to the forest floor. The dogwoods and redbuds are in full bloom. Cardinals and robins sing for your walk. Squirrels hop and scamper between limbs overhead. A hawk calls out above them, chased by a gang of crows. They “caw” with joy at the game. Something small rustles the bushes nearby, but you don’t catch what it is. You are fully present in the experience of the world around you — there are no thoughts so much as a stream of awed impressions. There’s a lightness in your chest. A calm joy vibrates down your spine. You are fully conscious of your place as a creature of this world, just like any other — something you too often forget. You are no less […]

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Imagine you’re walking through the woods. It’s a sunny spring day, right after the equinox so the leaves haven’t all come in yet and plenty of light is breaking through. The maples are on fire with those little red blooms that will turn into wing seeds, helicoptering their way to the forest floor. The dogwoods and redbuds are in full bloom. Cardinals and robins sing for your walk. Squirrels hop and scamper between limbs overhead. A hawk calls out above them, chased by a gang of crows. They “caw” with joy at the game. Something small rustles the bushes nearby, but you don’t catch what it is. You are fully present in the experience of the world around you — there are no thoughts so much as a stream of awed impressions. There’s a lightness in your chest. A calm joy vibrates down your spine. You are fully conscious of your place as a creature of this world, just like any other — something you too often forget. You are no less […]

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"There is an ultimate destination to the universe. An indelible end to which all things must come.

No action of ours can alter the course much, no matter how grand it may be. All memory of Caesar and Alexander, Jefferson and Napoleon, will share the same fate as the worker in the factory or the unnamed nomad already forgotten by time.

This is not a teleology that claims some esoteric purpose to existence. It has nothing to do with God or Geist, no matter the brilliance of those who disagree. It is a simple, immutable fact of Science:

Energy must always disperse. Entropy will always increase given enough time. All things seek equilibrium[...]

We are the universe come alive, not to know itself, as popular memes and philosophers suggest, but so that it may, as all living things must, one day die.

But how beautiful is the process! Awe-inspiring novelty emerges at every turn. What may come tomorrow? Anything. Everything.”

"There is an ultimate destination to the universe. An indelible end to which all things must come.

No action of ours can alter the course much, no matter how grand it may be. All memory of Caesar and Alexander, Jefferson and Napoleon, will share the same fate as the worker in the factory or the unnamed nomad already forgotten by time.

This is not a teleology that claims some esoteric purpose to existence. It has nothing to do with God or Geist, no matter the brilliance of those who disagree. It is a simple, immutable fact of Science:

Energy must always disperse. Entropy will always increase given enough time. All things seek equilibrium[...]

We are the universe come alive, not to know itself, as popular memes and philosophers suggest, but so that it may, as all living things must, one day die.

But how beautiful is the process! Awe-inspiring novelty emerges at every turn. What may come tomorrow? Anything. Everything.”