{"id":153,"date":"2016-06-24T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=153"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:40:22","slug":"elaboration-platforms-of-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"ELABORATION \u2013 \u201cPlatforms of Potential\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thus, some salient \u2018platforms\u2019 of the post-Big Bang cosmic order<\/div>\n
(some more directly relevant to us than others) –<\/div>\n
13.7 billion years ago: The Big Bang<\/div>\n
At 13.7 billion years ago minus one micro-second:<\/div>\n
quarks and gluons congealed into protons and neutrons<\/div>\n
At 13.3 billion years ago: electrons and nuclear particles combined<\/div>\n
into atoms<\/div>\n
At 13.2 billion years ago: gravity exerts its pull<\/div>\n
At 12.95 billion years ago: supernovas\u2026and the consequent 98<\/div>\n
(discovered) natural terrestrial elements ultimately necessary for<\/div>\n
humans. (My conjecture is that the \ue0c4nal number might be precisely 100.)<\/div>\n
At 12.7 billion years ago; galaxies<\/div>\n
4 billion years ago: life on our own planet<\/div>\n
3.9 billion years ago: photosynthesis<\/div>\n
3.5 billion years ago: \ue0c4rst strand of DNA makes-an-appearance<\/div>\n
1.5 billion years ago: organisms with cell nucleus containing DNA<\/div>\n
1.2 billion years ago: sexual reproduction<\/div>\n
1.0 billion years ago: multi-cellular life appears<\/div>\n
540 million years ago: Cambrian Explosion<\/div>\n
460 million years ago: life moves ashore<\/div>\n
390 million years ago: amphibians<\/div>\n
335 million years ago: the \ue0c4rst forests<\/div>\n
300 million years ago: reptiles<\/div>\n
275 million years ago: Large mammals Take # I<\/div>\n
200 million years ago: dinosaurs<\/div>\n
150 million years ago: birds<\/div>\n
114 million years ago: \ue0c5owers<\/div>\n
65 million years ago (post Dinosaur extinction): Large mammals Take #2<\/div>\n
4 million BCE: First hominids<\/div>\n
1.8 million BCE: Homo Erectus<\/div>\n
130,000 BCE: Neanderthal Man<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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120,000 BCE: Homo Sapiens<\/div>\n
13,000 BCE: agriculture<\/div>\n
7,600 BCE: Zhenpiyan, China, culture<\/div>\n
3,250 BCE: Hieroglyphics<\/div>\n
3,100 BCE: 60 place-value mathematics in Babylonia<\/div>\n
2,500 BCE: Stonehenge<\/div>\n
2,400 BCE: precise astronomical calendar, Egypt<\/div>\n
1,250 BCE: Monotheism codi\ue0c4ed in Ten Commandments<\/div>\n
Mind and consciousness have emerged and advance ongoing. Then,<\/div>\n
roughly speaking, culture and love (in each case, we\u2019re focusing-on<\/div>\n
the genre of Mankind\u2019s predilection) manifest.<\/div>\n
Ongoing, consciousness – and its ever higher-level platforms \u2013<\/div>\n
advances. Consciousness – in its manifold aspects – seems to be<\/div>\n
the arena where the next platform(s) will play out. Presumably this<\/div>\n
is already underway on some level. Note that there is no reason to<\/div>\n
assume that we have reached the end of \u2018platform building\u2019.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thus, some salient \u2018platforms\u2019 of the post-Big Bang cosmic order (some more directly relevant to us than others) – 13.7 billion years ago: The Big Bang At 13.7 billion years ago minus one micro-second: quarks and gluons congealed into protons and neutrons At 13.3 billion years ago: electrons and nuclear particles combined into atoms At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}