Human consciousness sparks on a dank planet.
Minds contemplate their own existance and the nature of reality.
Oddly, these self-aware primates do not have the sensory tools required to detect the tiny molecular and cellular components that are the fundamental building blocks of their universe. Trapped in their macroscopic world, their creative brains construct a fantastic model of reality in which glorious spirits guide the animation of matter. 40,000 years of shamans and oral traditions craft systems for human relations with the spirit world.
Suddenly civilization emerges: villages, domestication of plants and animals, written language, and casts of learners and teachers appear. Words in books are first adapted to the glorification of man's self-created relationship with the gods and spirits. Then, in a silly bumbling way, questioning minds begin to assemble an alternative model of reality. Telescopes and microscopes and other tools reveal a fantastic universe beyond the greatest visions of 50,000 years of mystics. Finnally, a new way to confront the universe is constructed.....seemingly at odds with the old order. Battle is done, but the new system is unstopable. An autocatalytic explosion of technology and science thrusts humanity into a new age. Earth's move into Outer Space and the Scientific Understanding of Mind and the Technological Control of Inner Space are the.......
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