Mundane Questions

Mundane questions:

clearly I have very few answers, and even my questions are fairly mundane in their concerns and require little in the way of deeper contemplation. Life generally handles the details of it’s course, providing so much with no real thought or effort of my own. Let’s consider the breath for instance, or heartbeat, that the body functions with such precision and skillful rhythm while demanding no conscious act of will for its continuation — this indeed is truly a miracle. Which leads me to a few deeper questions after all, most specifically is what role does consciousness play in any of this, not only for my mind and body, but throughout the universe itself ? How is any of this experienced at all? Clearly these aren’t mundane questions and require some greater contemplation.

this is consider the hard problem of consciousness, asking why we are capable of experience, of being able to even entertain the miracle of breath and heartbeat in my considerations. Great minds are researching this and have yet to provide a satisfying universal answer that is easily accepted by both scientist and philosopher. Of course mystics from all traditions have explored this issue at length and despite some details unique to each, mostly have a perennial agreement. Quantum physics, on reaching a certain point, almost seems to require a mystical explanation to consider, and that’s with the role…