“Does the universe hold levels of emergence beyond individual consciousness, beyond the collective accomplishments of human societies? Might the cooperative awareness of billions of humans ultimately give rise to new collective phenomena as yet unimagined? If higher stages of emergence await our discovery, then science and theology may someday converge into a more unified vision of the cosmos and our place in it” (Robert M. Hazen, Genesis: the scientific quest for life’s origin (Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2005) pp.245-246)
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