Understanding the Understanding

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Francois D'Urban
The Sons of God: Notes on a Lost History.
Understanding the Understanding.

I scratch my head in wonderment at what I have discovered. It is hard to believe my own eyes. Hard to comprehend what I am seeing here before me. It is near inconceivable that this is more than ten thousand years old.

"By this, it is possible to predict that at some point, in the very distant future, intelligent life will have Understanding of the universe inbuilt into its genome."

It is clear that this ancient race understood genetics, but what is this implying? I can only speculate but it seems definite that Understanding means more than just simple comprehension of science. Considering current theories on genetic memory, it might be possible that our knowledge could be passed on from generation to generation... Perhaps these people, knew how to access it. I have spoken to a physicist, and he believes that it is more likely, were it at all possible, that Understanding works in the same way as muscle memory. We learn an action thoroughly and can repeat it subconsciously. The Physicist pointed out that we subconsciously understand that if we push on something it pushes back equally, so he believes that it is entirely plausible, if not possible, that if we reached the point of understanding why that happens subconsciously we would have greater a command of our universe.

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“These, future beings, may attain the latent ability to access knowledge of time and space, from the perspective of a multi-dimensional observer. They could manipulate metabolic, cardiac and other bodily functions at will, or even by inherent evolutionary programing. It is possible they may even be almost immortal."

I find this remarkable. The possibilities, if this were true, are incalculable. I shudder to think what I would do with all that power... A thing only a philosopher could begin to contemplate.

“With the nearly infinite potential of intelligent life, one is compelled to accelerate the process of evolution by not simply relying on random forces to guide non-random replicators; being intelligent life. As seen as we are a force in and of ourselves, why not seek to guide ourselves to a higher Understanding of our own universe, by programing the outcomes of our own evolution?
Think of it as fruit on a tree of knowledge, that is too high for a certain species to reach. The laws of the universe prevent that species from attaining that fruit of Understanding, but we, as the most advanced of all intelligent life, can simply take the time to fly up and pass it down to them, taking a number of bites for ourselves."

So it seems this race believed themselves capable of bettering evolution, perhaps they even succeeded to some degree. I am anxious to uncover more of what is buried here, it seems the wall extends further along this side of the mountain.