tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post5788809345323859701..comments2023-10-11T07:41:49.758-07:00Comments on Lightwaveseeker: Are We Stardust?Daniel Wilcoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05178375087492786696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post-33059644740922579692014-09-15T22:23:05.738-07:002014-09-15T22:23:05.738-07:00Thanks for sharing a thoughtful and meditative com...Thanks for sharing a thoughtful and meditative comment.<br /><br />You say "every particle in this natural world is alive." I don't agree, but it's an intriguing idea. <br /><br />The famous mathematician and philosopher Alfred Lord Whitehead argued for such a view of existence with Process Philosophy.Daniel Wilcoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05178375087492786696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post-68886743579591459492014-09-13T15:12:15.987-07:002014-09-13T15:12:15.987-07:00Hmm... I don't know either. For the most part,...Hmm... I don't know either. For the most part, this claim sounds too "high" and poetic to be completely true - at least to me... However, the line "Our bodies literally hold the entire history of the universe, witnessed and enacted by our atoms” does make sense. Not literally, of course. When we say the atom "witnesses" something we do not say it is conscious... or do we? It may not be conscious in the same way we are used to - but it may very well hold a memory. It may be "witnessing" things in the sense of being there and changing because of the environment... and holding a memory of the event(s). Every particle in this natural world is alive - and on some level conscious, we just have not learned to recognize it. <br />In any case... I will not be starting any long conversations with water molecules or anything, I promise. ;) <br />Katyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12052803143157458386noreply@blogger.com