If you want to know why

enfieldacademy
Thu, 26 May 2011 17:41:24 +0000

So here’s one thing to consider: out of all the time humans have been conscious in the modern sense (approximately 60,000 years or so), right now (in the present) the world hosts the most consciousness’ it ever has. So I had, therefore, a greater chance of being conscious now (in 2011) than any date before now. Now, imagine if trillions of people inhabited multiple planets, etc., in the future. Well that would make it quite unlikely that I (or you) would have been conscious now (it would be a lot more likely to be conscious in those future times). But maybe my being conscious experience (and yours too) isn’t a statistical anomaly: maybe we do actually live when around the time that will be seen as the time when it was most probably to be alive.

If you think in chronological order or births of people that grow up to be conscious (because those are the only ones it makes sense to count), maybe we’re closer to the middle of the hypothetical list if there is a end to it (i.e in the future a last conscious person).

@billy: no…
@tcbh: I appreciate the poem :).