‘This fellow Brian Cox,’ said Mumford.
‘I love those shows,’ said Mieke.
‘My nephew sent me a video. He said I’d like it. I said I didn’t have Instagram, but he’s found it on You Tube. Professor Cox seems to be all over the place.’
Mieke came over to look at Mumford’s iPad.
Brian Cox was saying:
If you think about what we are – we’re just collections of atoms. Some of them are as old as time. They’re in our bodies and they were made in stars.
So it’s all cooked over billions of years.
And yet we’re in this pattern that can think.
You have a means by which the universe understands and explores itself.
Which is us.
Mumford paused the video and looked at Mieke.
‘Well, we are remarkable,’ said Mieke. ‘Consciousness and … the way we can create things. It doesn’t seem to relate to just … matter.’
‘Mumford nodded. She started the video again. Brian said:
It sounds unlikely when you put it like that.
That you can have a few things that were cooked in the hearts of stars and you stick them together in a pattern and it suddenly has some ideas and starts writing music.
REFERENCE: Brian Cox: “The most interesting question in philosophy.” Evan Carmichael, You Tube
IMAGES: Starry Night at La Silla via wikimedia
Wassily Kandinsky, Heavy Red, 1924 via Wikimedia
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