May be, I’m no expert, let me try to explain then.....DavidQuinn000 wrote:Entirely right, it's an accidental phenomenon. Sapius's statement has no logic to it.
Firstly, I don't think the word 'accident' is appropriate in this context for the simple reason that things could not have been any other way, so how is it an "accident"? At the same time, it was never "pre-planned" either, because it simply unfolds dictated by causality. I don't think there can be any "accidents" as far as causality is concerned. We might be arrogant enough to think we are the only accidental 'intelligent' beings around, but considering the vastness of Totality, this could be a most common phenomenon happening on a "daily" basis.
If whatever exists, or seems to exist, does exist in some form or another, then it surely had the potential to exist, hence, just as it is impossible for something to exist without a prior cause, things that exist must have the potential and are causally connected back to…. infinity. Hence, my poor use of the word 'ingrained'. Don't take it too literally, as in ‘your’ particular kind of intelligence being ingrained in Reality, since....... Infinity.
Reality cannot bring forth that which it does not have the potential to, no accidents, no mistakes, by what standards would they be? Transcend duality, and the “accident†disappears. It’s that simple, at least for me.
Of course, David, it is not only you who has the right to be poetic at times. Don't tell me that you take my sentences at face value.Nothing is ingrained in the fabric of the Universe. Things just come into being when the causal circumstances are ripe, and then they disappear again.
Hence, the yellowness of a banana skin did have the potential hidden in the chain of cause and effect, which one can glimpse when the causal circumstances are ripe. Similarly, “intelligence†is necessarily “ingrained†and appears when the time is ripe. It’s all appearances, David, just appearances, like in a "self", which lay hidden in Reality, until the time is ripe. As in a ripe banana. hehehe…..
Having said that; Reality is not that which I could even imagine conceptualizing.