by Xauri'El Zwaan

Created on: April 09, 2009   Last Updated: April 12, 2009

TRANSCENDANCE

Consider

The rippling waves of spacetime

And pure probability

The quantum foam

Coalescing into

Dancing, spinning

Particles

Enmeshed within

Orbits/clouds/shells

Encapsulated as miniscule atoms

Bound together into

Perfect crystalline molecules

So simple and so complex

Self assembling into

Cellular factories

Burning chemical fuel

Manufacturing DNA tools

Working together to form

Bones and muscles

A beating heart

A fragile confection of

Chemicals and electricity

That interprets the photons and the phonons

Forming a virtual reality

And a mind to perceives it

Describes it with words and meaning

Ideas and concepts

Theories and systems

Poetry

Plans and takes action

Moving the organs by moving the cells by moving the proteins by moving the atoms by moving the probability waves by moving

To survive and prosper

To learn and create

To seek out life, and civilization

To interact with these bundles of atoms

Separate yet equal

In an endless and intricate dance

A society

An ecology

An economy

A technocracy

Forever evolving from a lone replicator to a unity beyond time, space, and meaning

Preceded by a thousand times a million times a billion instants of unknown existence

Coating the surface of a ball of molten rock

Following the path of least resistance

Around a massive nuclear furnace

Doomed to be annihilated in a mere 6 billion years

Churning in a whirlpool of terrible dark energies

Around an unknowable devouring maw

Rushing every instant toward some distant rendezvous

With its billions of stellar brothers and sisters

A mere speck within a cosmos so enormous

Light itself cannot illuminate the boundaries

Inflated beyond the realm of conception

A mere reflection of a holographic surface

A barest possibility among infinite parallel worlds

Which embody but a single potential configuration

Of the manifold laws of reality

Implied by the ultimate mathematical equation

The Unified Theory of Everything

...

What need have I

Of a fragment of wishful thinking

A child-god djinni of desert nomads

Dreamed a thousand years gone by

To experience transcendance?

It's all around me

Every instant

Being

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