A new emergent property
of matter manifested
when chance molecular
self-replication occurred.
And thereafter, complexity’s rise
was no longer prevented
by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
And we are that consciousness
which has arisen within matter
grown ever more complex.
We are risen through
the inevitable and unconscious
processes of evolution.
All of this is written
in the very stones we trod on
if one but wields Occam’s Razor
and searches for the truth
thru the many illusions of
our still small minds.
Not all adaptions are successful
and this, our self-awareness,
is problematic.
Just newly risen, are we,
above the tooth and claw.
And this adaptation’s power
threatens to end us
even as we’ve just begun.
That which was conserved
to support our rise is that,
which if now unchecked,
foretells our fall.
gallagher
17Jan24
Christchurch