It was sometime within the last two million years that something unique and wondrous came into being. It was the chance convergence of a multitude of causal improbabilities, the contemplation of which brings one to the summit of the sublime. Awareness made a great leap forward from its starting point in the Phanerozoic Eon and became aware of itself. Thus, a power was unleashed unlike any other. It was the faculty of reason, a power that has the potential to harness all other cosmic forces. But as Nietzsche wrote, “Man is an unfinished animal”, and so, the true scope and full application of reason remain a mystery waiting to be solved by those who possess it.
George Bizadellis