/sci/ - Science & Math

Still, whatever less urgent chores he didn't get done here, he'd have got around to if he had made it into space, and all the time 'gone from the world' that would have given him. All the time in the world... provided he was able to let go. To accept that he was no longer what he had been, that the body in the casket was only a chrysalis, a vessel that nurtured an early form of his consciousness in tooth-and-claw land, by providing it with wired-in instincts of self-preservation and all the rest of the evolutionary psychology baggage.
In space he'd have accepted (if he hadn't already) that the body, and most of his conceptualization of 'self', were now no more than cast off husks. Contemplating the next step, he'd have realized his metamorphosis was only just beginning.

If looking up at the distance to the stars didn't do it, he'd have certainly have cottoned on pretty quickly from looking down, at his once-brothers on the planet below. Technology is incompatible with species. The industrialization spike up to technology always comes fast, like a surprise punch to the nose of age-old hunter-gatherer tribal instincts. I remember wondering, in those years of watching humankind repeatedly shoot itself in the head, whether 'we' were simply some kind of galactic dunces. Surely it couldn't always be like this?

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