Evolution of love

THE BIGGEST MYSTERY

In reality, when we are scientifically honest, we must admit we have no idea how awareness can ever arise—not in an individual, not collectively, and certainly not from molecules and electromagnetism. Indeed, does consciousness arise at all?

It’s widely repeated that each cell in our body is part of a continuous string of cells that started dividing billions of years ago—a single unbroken chain of life.

But what about consciousness?
This more than anything else must be unbroken. Although most people like to imagine a universe existing without it, we have seen that this makes no sense if one gives the matter sufficient thought.

How does consciousness ever begin?
How could that possibly occur?
And is that question any less enigmatic than trying to figure how it might arise at a later date?
Is consciousness synonymous with everything?
The deep thinkers of the past and present are right: it is the big- gest mystery, next to which all else pales.