Michael, haven't had time to read your essays, but I look forward to them. You seem like an extremely intelligent individual and I would love to see your point of view on things. Thanks for the links.
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More clearly, it's a threshold of knowledge beyond which things become unimaginable. At a certain point, sentient beings will know so much that those who came before will regard them as gods. This is something that's true of us: if an ancient Egyptian came to 21st century America, we would be as like gods. That's a threshold of unimaginability, because you're simply not equipped to think past that.
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Sorry Michael, what you're saying makes sense, but I'm having trouble understanding how that relates to your overall thread.
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I'd expect the usual mundane stuff. A minor economy of proteins and substances; just a society made purely of workers,...
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I beg to differ. The human body is an amazing organism made up of billions of cells each doing their part to make sure that everything runs smoothly. "mundane and minor" are two words I would not use to describe it. "Miraculous and magnificent" yes!
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...if somewhat held in thrall and tyranny by the brain.
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Ah, but is the brain the controller, or is it the consciousness? And would a cell view its life as being "held in thrall and tyranny?"
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I don't quite see the usefulness in the difference of scale. For instance, if you power-of-ten zoomed out, you imagine planets as individuals and they'd chat with each other across the far reaches of space...
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Exactly! That's the way I look at it anyways. I think we can make a lot of sense of the universe by looking at it in that way. For me, it helps.
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...but that doesn't change the question at all.
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Okay, another stab, Why are we one? I don't think there's an answer for that. The why, implies meaning, purpose...all human identifications/creations. At the level where the physical universe was manifested, human identifications are non-existant; therefore, the why was never in question. It just is, because there could be no other way. Now, on this level of physicality, the why is a construct of our thoughts. The why could be anything we want it to be. Just as you can see the human body as mundane and I can see it as miraculous.
Am I answering your question?