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I'll try and explain this as fast as possible; this isn't metaphysics this is actual physical
reality, when you think about it.
Because most people don't think of the dimension of time in their lives, because the way we
live is to, when we see sections of time...
so to try and explain it as quickly as possible in a way that everyone'll understand...
Right, you're standing here in front of me with your microphone, but in order to get
here you had to come through that door, so can you point to coming through that door?
You know what I mean?
In order to get here today you had to be ten years old, can you point to being ten years
old?
No you can't, because in the way we experience time, we can only see it in memory, we can't
actually go there, even though we now there is a place called the past, where all this
stuff happened, and where all those old comics came from and from where you as a kid lived,
you can't go there, you can't point you can't show me a direction where the past is...
but think of yourself as the leading edge of you, right?
This is you, right now, you're moving forward through time, but behind you there's all these
different versions of you going back and back and aback
and the same for all the guys in here, same for me, I go back through that door, imagine
you could see that in time, it wouldn't just be a man with a back and a front, it would
be a long trailing thing,
and it contains all of you and it has all these arms and all these eyes, and it moves
backwards through the door and backwards through the stairs, and its getting younger all the
time through that trail,
but like I say we cant see that but if you could see it it would look like a huge snake,
and it would keep going back,
and there are lots of these snakes and they all weave together, every one of those kids
running around, everyone here all starts going backwards through time, and eventually you
get to be one year old.
Somewhere in time you are right now one year old, because if you were not one year old
you couldn't be here today, and that one year old then disappears up into its mother's womb,
but you're still, still physical, you're still the same you, its getting smaller and smaller,
and it goes in there, and that same physical thing divides into an egg cell, and a ***
cell, and the egg cell grows out of your mother, so it's still present, nothing's gone away
there, the actual physical thing of you has now become an egg in your mother and a ***
cell going up inside your father, and the same thing happens to your mother and father
going back into their mothers and fathers
See? So you starting to see this? And you take it right back it's like everybody in
the human race goes back to the same human root, and then somewhere along the evolutionary
tree we're joined by apes, but it's still all one thing, the tree is the one thing,
and the tree is rooted in 3 and a half billion years ago in the ocean, which is the first
living cell appeared and started to divide, and as I said in the other first mitochondrial
cell, the DNA cell is still dividing in your body right now, it's immortal. It's never
died it never went anywhere it just keeps dividing and making more copies of itself
in all living forms.
So what we actually are is this amazing divided single cell, which has grown itself across
3 and a half billion years into a gigantic... imagine, I see it in my head as like an anemone
made out of people, and bodies, so we're the leading edge of the smart part of it because
we can think better than most of the other animals, we've kind of got a way of connecting-
Speak for yourself *laughs* I-I'm the ***, I'm the ***. Remember, remember.
Even *** can think, I can see it happening, I can see the thoughts churning over there,
but so yeah I mean that's what it is, if you can understand that simple thing, if you can
see the whole thing, the whole idea of life as a thing existing in time, and there's only
this one huge thing that lives on the planet Earth, like a huge living entity that feeds
on the forest, and feeds on itself, and that's us, that's what we really are... and if you
can imagine yourself right now, on your body, the skin cells come off and die, millions
of them all the time every ten seconds you're losing like millions of skin cells, I can't
remember the exact number,
But it feeds itself again...
Yeah but imagine you were one of those skin cells, every single skin cell has got a little
architecture inside, it's got proteins, it's got all this stuff, it's got a function, it
does things... if there's an infection the cells will run in and fight the war for you,
so imagine how it feels to be one of those cells, you know? In your body. Does it think
the way we do?
So I'm thinking we're like that in the big body, because when one of your cells flakes
away, and it dries up and it dies, can you imagine that moment for the little cell? It
thought it was really cool and it's got a job to do and suddenly 'oh my god, I'm dying'
and it drops away
but your body stays, it's still there, there's part of you dead on the floor, but your body's
still alive, now imagine that on the big scale, in the way that we imagine these bodies we're
in die, and fade and get shrivelled and dry and drop dead, but the actual living- the
big living thing never dies, it hasn't died yet it keeps renewing itself, and we're the
cells that allow it to renew itself, and I kind of believe that what we call consciousness
in that sense that we can all think and share thoughts, is actually how the big thing thinks,
and we- we're just kind of in the river of it doesn't die, it never dies so I kind of
see it as nobody ever dies on the planet, really.