About Carbon

About carbon:

and most important is carbon, at least in our present life form, our basic structure, and with 12 percent of our bodies atoms being from this element. We are considered carbon-based life forms, and from plants to every animal we are surrounded by its presence. It’s amazing that this life giving element is formed deep within a star, a Big Bang effect that continues to be expressed through this day. Yes, we are literary made from the stuff of stars. But really, this isn’t about carbon.

nor elements at all.

this is about awareness, our sense of presence, and that somehow an arrangement of elements gains us a conscious expression lasting for a lifetime. I’m not talking about our thoughts here, nor even our sense of being an individual self — of this it could all be an illusion, perhaps a chemical reaction within the brain itself, honestly we mostly have no idea of how a thought, and the following sense of self appear. On this I won’t speculate further. I’m not really interested on the hard problem of conscious and I’m definitely not qualified to provide an argument one way or the other.

my only qualification is that I’m aware.

and aware that I am.

yet how is it that I’m composed of elements, atoms, particles swirling through a vast emptiness, and that somehow this all arises as an…