Ugly bags of mostly water


This is another idea I hope to eventually rewrite, both to expand on it and
to present it more clearly.

One idea that was appealing came about while musing on the nature of 
evolution.  I've always liked the concept that "evolution is the process 
of the universe becoming aware of itself."  Which is true.  We are 
born of the earth and we realize that we are part of the earth and part 
of the universe, not seperate from it.

Yet there is a spiritual side too.  Matter created life.  From the earth 
we arose.  Yet spirit also creates itself.  And much of the spiritual 
seems to reflect the material (or vice versa).  Perhaps matter truly is 
created in the image of spirit.  But how far?  Is there a background 
spiritual field which has evolved into more aware and complex forms?

Matter does not exist independantly of energy.  Matter does not exist 
independantly of spirit which is the drive within us.  Does spirit exist 
independantly of matter?  If so, we cannot know that while we exist as 
matter anyway.

So life simply as evolved dirt is mechanical.  Thinking dirt.  It acts 
and reacts in order to organize and manipulate the matter around it to 
create more thinking dirt.  Yet if the spirit exists within, a drive for 
purpose other than the manipulation of material forms, then spirit itself 
becomes the reason for evolution.

Did evolution create spirit?  What are we evolving to?