Big Numbers

 

Sometimes people like to think about big numbers.  One kind of big number'

to consider would be - well to start - is to think of all the minds on this

planet.  Mind like things.  Well, you can start with all the people on earth,

you could also include most probably all the animals and insects, and then

you could throw in trees and other forms of forms of vegetation.  If you

really wanted to complete this list you probably also want to include

things like rocks.  And so when you add that all up, if you work really

hard at it, you have a pretty big number.  You could even give it a name

as that number would be fairly static, it wouldn't really change a lot.

Of course, you really don't need to stop there, because as we 

search deeper into the nature of " things " in general, we start

to notice, that even on the molecular, atomic, or sub-atomic level

we have processes or systems, which appear to be " mind " like

on many levels.  Finally, as is becoming more and more evident

we have this same process or processes proceeding on distant

worlds, or at least worlds that seem extremely distant to us, right

now, but also in some ways are becoming more accessible to us all

the time.

That turns out to be a " monumentally " large number and in fact

for me, at least, it seems a little bigger than I can actually rap

my " mind " around.