Prometheus: An epilogue

Abstract

Nature covers its deepest secrets, providing only hints into that which, from lack of a better term, may be referred to as universal intelligence. Science mostly explains the hows, but not the whys: Empirical observations, experiments and mathematical formulations which explain how the atmosphere-ocean-land system has evolved, decoding the DNA and Darwinian evolution of life, have to date been unable to explain the sense of purpose perceived in life. Nor has evolu-tionary theory been able to date to decipher whether life is written into the laws of nature or has emerged as a unique improbable accident. Earth, a lonely faint blue dot in the universe, the only home of Homo sapiens, bears the genes of cosmic processes from the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies and nucleosynthesis in the cores of stars to the origin of planets and habitable planets. We may never know the underlying factor for the Big Bang, how the physical laws came into being, what is the raison d’etre of synthesis of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen into selfreplicating self-repairing DNA-RNA molecules, and what is the origin and raison d’etre of intelligence. We may never know whether individual and collective intelligence evolves along with physiological evolution or, alternatively, is inherent in natural laws as are gravity and the electromagnetic force. Where science ends unknown, poetry and music are born.