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Evolutionary Coherence, and Cosmic Relevance—in relation to the
habitat problems.
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Before that, I would like to remind myself that, of all human interventions
upon the planet, two are unavoidable. Farming and habitat: to eat and to be
sheltered. As such, they have, or they should have, precedence over every-
thing else.To fall on the wrong path in pursuing feeding and sheltering our-
selves may mean impending catastrophe.
It has been my conviction that in the shelter domain our pursuit of
improved wrongness is synonymous with impending catastrophe. I refer to
the habitat I call sub-exurbia.
A second premise: For 3 million years or so, we have been captives of the
animism we invented with great imagination. It is now time to abandon
ship and go it alone on our own, away from the tutelage of our gods and
their apostles.
The epoch of animism should be over. Its presence has been a protracted
exorcism against the unknown. Now that such unknown has and is being
“scientifically” investigated, we are discovering the astonishing richness of
nature, the magic of nature. The magic of nature has no need of a sur-
natural composer-creator or of a conductor, let alone an absentee one.
Reality is a harsh democracy of sorts and can no longer suffer under hypo-
thetical despots, cruel and absent minded.
Via bootstrap virtue, space—the stuff of reality—has been making itself
from a very elementary beginning (Big Bang) into a monster of a beast
punctuated by excruciating episodes of life and now (3 or so million years
on this planet) endowed with consciousness and reflection.The hypothesis
sketched and inferred here may come in handy when the reflections on
habitat play within the Evolutionary Coherence and Cosmic Relevance
bubbles.
We have to keep an eye on the most fundamental fact: we are the “stuff
of stars,” and as such we will make it or we will not.That is why eventually
it is in the Cosmic Relevance bubble we will find resolution, that is, gene-
sis concluded or dissolution, that is, final nemesis.
From here to genesis concluded, it will take as many eons as is necessary.
From here to possible nemesis, it could take just a minor astronomical
event, a sizable asteroid, a protracted ice age, or something strictly of our
