Who Was She, Really?

She was a highly evolved entity. So highly evolved, in fact, that she had complete understanding that there were beings much more evolved than herself, just as there were virtually unconscious entities of the most primitive sort.

Above her, there existed immeasurable intellect. Below her existed near infinite stupidity.

Often, throughout her life, she pondered that.

Most of all, there was the sense of understanding associated with her destiny, and that time allowed only experience, and did not allow variation from what must be.

For example, she saw clearly her own death. It would be at the hand of someone so primitive -- so beneath her in every possible way -- that it would be considered unnaturally criminal by any moral standard. She would be butchered and rendered in a manner that was hideous and disturbing to think about.

She knew she was doomed. Death comes to all conscious thought eventually.

And what lay after death?

Well -- by the very singular nature of conscious thought and all that it implied -- (and she was so highly evolved that she knew this beyond any argument) -- what lay beyond the blindness of life was unknowable. It was knowledge that had been excluded from all conscious entities.

During the course of time, the fear of death lingered, but she came to accept and understand inevitability. So, when her life finally climaxed, and she met her horrific destroyer, she went peacefully, with total understanding of life and its mysteries, and without any fear whatsoever.

And as she died, crossing through millions of layers of existence, like spectral light in all of its gradients pouring through window glass, she saw her death exactly as she had foreseen in its brutal detail.

She saw a laboratory, and the most primitive of beings, watching her die through a microscope, performing experiments on her microscopic anatomy, without any regard to what she actually was, and what she had truly been.

He was a primitive and stupid being, content in his ignorant belief that conscious thought was the exclusive domain of his human kind.

Good read. What was she? Bacteria?

Was she susan boyles grandmother?

Thanks for the replies.

The answer to who she was: She was a sentient being of incredible intellect, sensitivity, and beauty.

She coexisted with us in a world far deeper than anything we are aware of. Our only interaction with her world is characterized by curious disregard and criminal cruelty, through the lens of a scientific apparatus, with no real understanding of deeper meaning.

I originally thought she might physically be a flower, or perhaps a silicon crystal, or maybe (as you say) a bacterium.

My point is: we have no understanding of consciousness. Anyone who says we understand the source of consciousness is presuming a lot, and is arguably wrong.

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How do we know that what we think is "smart" is actually total stupidity? Perhaps consciousness decreases as the complexity of the nervous system increases. We don't know. We can't say for sure.

Does my pet dog possess a greater understanding of life than any human can ever achieve?