The Universe Has Become Not Only Conscious

It Seems To Me That, As It Is Usually Presented, The Current Orthodoxy About The Cosmic Order Is The Product Of Governing Assumptions That Are Unsupported, And That It Flies In The Face Of Common Sense.

Leading A Human Life Is A Full-time Occupation, To Which Everyone Devotes Decades Of Intense Concern.

Philosophy Is The Childhood Of The Intellect, And A Culture That Tries To Skip It Will Never Grow Up.

The Great Cognitive Shift Is An Expansion Of Consciousness From The Perspectival Form Contained In The Lives Of Particular Creatures To An Objective, World-encompassing Form That Exists Both Individually And Intersubjectively. It Was Originally A Biological Evolutionary Process, And In Our Species It Has Become A Collective Cultural Process As Well. Each Of Our Lives Is A Part Of The Lengthy Process Of The Universe Gradually Waking Up And Becoming Aware Of Itself.

Reason Is Universal Because No Attempted Challenge To Its Results Can Avoid Appealing To Reason In The End-by Claiming, For Example, That What Was Presented As An Argument Is Really A Rationalization. This Can Undermine Our Confidence In The Original Method Or Practice Only By Giving Us Reasons To Believe Something Else, So That Finally We Have To Think About The Arguments To Make Up Our Minds.