Their insights, met initially by incredulity and hostility, helped us escape our primal self-centeredness. It took courage as well as imagination, painstaking observations and rational analysis for Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo to challenge geocentrism. Don’t our eyes tell us as much every day and night? The Sun, Moon, planets, stars and entire cosmos whirl around the Earth, our home. Religions reflect our self-centeredness, and science did too, at first. These assumptions come so naturally to us that for most of our pre-history and history we didn’t question them. Perhaps you, personally, aren’t reality’s reason for being, but your species surely is. Your narcissism expands to encompass people in your family, tribe, even humanity as a whole. You are reality’s epicenter.Īs you grow up, you realize others matter too. The world is a stage for the drama of your life. You know you are conscious, and you don’t worry about whether others are too, because only your experiences matter.
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