Just after I’d lunch yesterday, Jack called from the corner sidewalk bench to ask me for a coffee, to which I readily agreed. We chatted for an hour about the Dutch losing the soccer shootout to Argentina, our upcoming holidays and the daily goings on, after which we went our ways again until September most likely.

After my snooze I got ready for my visit to Juliet. On the way I had copies made of a Scientific American - June 2014 – graph showing the world migration flow among the fifty top migrant nations.

Next it was on to the Co-op store for Juliet’s salad produce and where I used their self-checkout, which functions quite differently from the one I use at Safeway. But with much instruction, I found my way through all the choices like a rat through a labyrinth to its food morsel! In my case I had to pay in the end, but I got to take my food with me. Life is tough in the fast lane. Then it was on to meet Juliet.

It was good to see her again after two weeks of other activities. She had added chapter ten to her story and we did a spellcheck on the whole document. After her well prepared supper we printed off the entire document of thirty two pages.

This will give Juliet a chance to find grammar and idiom errors using pencil and paper. I took a digi-copy home to format and formally style the document. [Phone call from Don at Nine, 9:28 now.] At Noon lunch with Herman, followed by a stop at DJ’s for produce.

The email still does not work in the Firefox browser after deleting all the cookies, but it does work in MS-IE, so I’m not locked out. I’ll delete the present Firefox and reinstall the old version 16 that I still have sitting around. Maybe that will do the trick; I did post about five new daily entries late yesterday.

I feel the need to elaborate some on this week’s writings about ‘Existence Divine’, but don’t know exactly what it is that I want to say. Or rather I do have a notion about what to ‘say’, but have difficulty expressing it into words. This reminds me of my commitment to ‘consciously express’ as worded in my short statement of belief. So, maybe I should try!

We know that the cosmos is vast in space and time. It has a past we will never fully know and even in the present much happens beyond the reach of our knowing. And that is just the cosmos, there is also the minute smallness of the particle world, as well as the amazing complexity of the biology of the life processes.

All this makes me think that our conscious knowing, valid and valuable as such, is nevertheless limited to our human world in time, space and duration. I say duration, because we know that all processes and states within existence have a duration limit. Just think of the various extinctions our planet has evidence of for us to study!

Maybe this is motivating us to look for and locate other planets that could support ‘sentient’ – think conscious – life. Even if or when we do, contact within a single human life time will be very difficult. However, we may be able to communicate through long space-time probes.The minimal result might then be the ‘having a knowledge of’ some other form of conscious life.

Given time – say one hundred thousand years – we may be able to make and locate several of such contacts. This would open up the possibility of establishing a contact network of exchange of what we and ‘others’ know as conscious beings.

Such a network would be insurance against extinction of any one of such ‘centers of conscious life’, even though visits in the body may not be possible. In such a manner it is possible to entertain the mission of humanity to work towards such a spreading of conscious awareness throughout all that exists, that mystery that I have called ‘Existence Divine’.

I suspect that conscious autonomy will quite a bit easier to realise than autonomous ethics.

This is a good place to stop, as I have finally given expression to a long held notion about our destiny as human beings within Existence Divine, which I see as our combining ethics with conscious awareness.

I consider that a unique combination, because consciousness by itself can very well become possible by means of complex enough computer type processing. We are already reading about autonomous robots – killer type no less – and the problem of how their behaviour is to be governed. I suspect that conscious autonomy will quite a bit easier to realise than autonomous ethics.
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After thought:

Let me make a prediction. Once we get a full understanding of the dangers that the asteroid belt holds, we will realise that the earth is not invulnerable to extinction like events and is far less save than we have assumed. The wakeup call to this reality may come in the destruction of the present space station, which is far too hazardous away to explore space.

The only way is to be on solid ground like the moon, underground. The moon has one side permanently turned to the earth which makes it easy to communicate and close enough to be near real time. This would be the best place to start any serious space and relatively safe – moon shakes anybody – to start exploration.
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