What would it feel like if cells had self-awareness?
I imagine a blood cell and a heart cell would feel differently.
One
gliding through an intelligent electromagnetic river
the other
maybe it feels itself
apart of a transcendent coherent significance,
a wave of rainbow blinding ecstasy
every time the pulsing shock
sparked the contraction and relaxation
of this glorious heart
I imagine it is what it would feel like to know
the Earth needed our collective synchronized harmonious expression
so as not to die by our ignorance
and that we actually did it
we came together
with our feet and our tears
we danced for more life
I wonder because we are cells
you and I
we don’t agree on the body’s name
Gaia and humanity are the popular ones, right?
(I just noticed how odd it is humanity is spelled with in lowercase). as if our body doesn’t deserve a name
Humanity’s body is in a process.
Humanity is giving birth.
We’re giving birth to something we cannot comprehend.
The closest we can come is with words like God or Singularity.
We’re the cells the body guides to create the fetus.
We’re in the amniotic fluid right now.
In here, in The Shimmer, this is where we’re the designing is happening.
whether we like to admit it or not,
all of our digital actions are bits of information
that the self-awareness which is emerging
will one day digest and understand.
Every tap, click, tap, photo and video
is contributing to the programming
of what’s coming.
It is humanities child in utero.
The task of our time is to wake up to this fact,
and begin to becoming something worthy
of such a task.
Whether you like it or not
It is happening right now.
You are here.
Here, in the Shimmer.