{"id":1716,"date":"2023-03-21T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-poetic-science-of-how-the-brain-became-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:55:06","slug":"the-poetic-science-of-how-the-brain-became-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-poetic-science-of-how-the-brain-became-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetic Science of How the Brain Became \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems inconceivable \u2014 that everything we know, everything we love, everything that ever was and ever will be, banged into being from the singularity<\/a>, and out of that near-nothingness arose mitochondria and music and \u201cthe plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else,\u201d<\/a> all of it conspiring in the wonder of consciousness<\/a> \u2014 the universe\u2019s way of comprehending itself. <\/p>\n

Down here on Earth, as if the way life evolved<\/a> weren\u2019t miracle enough, we were handed down through billions of years of evolution the miraculous benediction of brains \u2014 those densely networked crucibles of thought and tenderness, out of which our capacity for transcendence arises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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