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For a god, it would not be impossible.<\/p>\n

Finding all of the atoms that currently come together to make up what I think of as \u201cMe\u201d really could be done – even 6 billion years ago.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

Whatever god searching \u00a0would have to be able to travel pretty quickly though. 6 Billion years ago before the planets around us formed, the calcium atom about 1\/4inch down and a little to the left, in my right knee would be over . . . .there. Then a few of the hydrogen atoms in my brain would be off about 16 or 20 light-minutes down in THAT direction . . . . oh\u2026 and that one zinc atom presently in my hip, that\u2019s so far off it would take light 23 light minutes to reach it . . .could be pinpointed THERE. . . .<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

So many tiny particles . . . or, philosophically speaking \u00a0\u201cpoints of probability\u201d. . . scattered over an area larger that our current solar system – all those billions of years ago, somehow wandered through space and time and fire and wind and water and dirt to eventually coalesce into my current form.<\/p>\n

Bizarre and improbable are BOTH massive understatements no matter who<\/b> you apply the timeline of molecular migration to.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

In fact, if we\u2019re to believe what we\u2019re told by very brainy scientists \u201cin the know\u201d . . . the configuration of all the sub-microscopic particles that make up who I\u2019m supposed to be, isn\u2019t even the same configuration as it was when I started typing this sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what\u2019s the point here anim5? Where are you going with this?\u201d<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

Well . . . . I\u2019ve been cleaning out my basement.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve been finding things.<\/p>\n

Relatively speaking, I\u2019ve been finding OLD things.<\/p>\n

One of the images I have posted on my personal website (anim5.com), is of a bookstore window display. Two of them actually. One side of the entrance had \u201cFantasy\u201d as its theme. The other side, \u201cScience Fiction\u201d. The displays held paperback and hardcover classics from both genre\u2019s along with sculptures, buttons, plastic models and posters all meant to supplement the widow\u2019s overall \u2018feel\u2019. The windows and the pictures are from the year 1983.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

\"B.<\/a>
B. Dalton Booksellers. 1983<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

..<\/p>\n

One of the plastic models on the \u201cScience Fiction\u201d side was of an evil killer robot named \u201cMaximilian\u201d from a Disney film called THE BLACK HOLE. It was fun looking at the photo all these years knowing I had built all those models and put them on display for the public. Supposedly it was to sell books, but I didn\u2019t care much about that. I was just keen on showing off all my STUFF.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

A few days ago, I found that very same Maximilian model in a box in my basement. Somehow it made the journey from one living space after another on and off shelves, into boxes wrapped in whatever came to hand to keep it safe. . . . and most recently spent the last 15 years resting comfortably in a box for so long that I\u2019d forgotten I even OWNED the thing anymore. But there it was.<\/p>\n

Another collection of Bizarre and improbable particle arrangements.<\/p>\n

Bizarre And Improbable Particle Arrangements.<\/b><\/p>\n

BAIPA\u2019s<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

Seems like everything we look at could be called a \u201cBAIPA\u201d. ( Browse around for exotic bugs and animals and you\u2019ll just GAPE in wonder that anything like them should exist at ALL.)<\/p>\n

But the objects made by humans, along with the humans themselves are at the top of my list for strangeness.<\/p>\n

It just strikes me as Outrageously Weird\u2026. The moment of discovering that silly plastic model of a cartoonishly evil monster robot from a pretty poor motion picture, invoked a wonderful feeling of familiarity, youth, home, roots . . . .original wonder at the epic possibilities in the imagination. And it was something I glued together and painted long ago. It\u2019s an object that could never be replaced, because it was put together 34 years ago by a collection of particles that had my<\/b> name and evolving personality\/memory\/knowledge \u00a0pattern.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

So, fast forwarding in jump-cuts to 2017\u2026 Here\u2019s me, a BAIPA that, for reasons that aren\u2019t fully understood, is self-aware and conscious \u2026having an emotional response to another BAIPA that was assembled by a version of me that\u2019s physically long dead. What triggers the emotion?<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

Should strong attachments or reactions to decades-old personal possessions be tossed into the mix for Turing Tests to determine if androids are \u201csentient\u201d? ( Now seeing Data and his hologram figurine of Yar. And the replicant from BLADERUNNER holding onto his old photographs.)<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

I have no doubt I\u2019ll find other BAIPA\u2019s in the basement that will ALSO trigger strong mental\/emotional responses. Items I\u2019d long forgotten I ever had.<\/p>\n

How strange it is that one fluid, fleeting and completely improbable packet of elements should form an emotional or sentimental attachment to a \u201cthing\u201d or collection of \u201cthings\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Maximilian<\/a>
Re-Discovered object in my basement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

..<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nostalgia cranked up to higher and higher levels when we KNOW they\u2019re \u201cthings\u201d we valued over many versions of ourselves. The time the items come from might have been a time with more possibilities.<\/p>\n

It dredges up images of the classic \u201crosebud\u201d, whispered by the billionaire on his deathbed in CITIZEN KANE.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why souvenirs of any kind cause the response. Souvenirs are not PEOPLE\u2026 they\u2019re THINGS. Amazingly Bizarre and Improbable Particle Arrangements. BAIPA\u2019s . . .just like \u00a0Humans.<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

Applying some \u2018fuzzy thinking\u2019 to the subject, I now have to speculate that if these THINGS had any kind of consciousness . . would they feel the same attachment to their owners?<\/p>\n

After being re-discovered in old paper wrapping after a few decades tucked away in a massive field of LABYRINTH style junk . . . would they react if they could?<\/p>\n

\u201cHi! Remember us? You thought we were important once.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be grand if the creator of the universe came by the human race one day and and we could say the same thing?<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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