Life is the drive to persist, to oppose the general entropy of the universe.
What are we before our birth? A genetic probability. Just that? Yes, and we will continue to be until our number is up and our existence is realized, which does not just depend on us as individuals. We are beholden to the survival of our species. What is the beyond before our birth like? Fair. We all have the same chance of becoming emperors or paupers, beautiful or ugly, geniuses or borderline; in short, the genetic roulette has no bias or limit in time or space, unless as a species we cross into extinction. And after our death? A genetic probability. We are the concrete appearance of an abstract probability. Our brain is both rational and empathic; personal and communal; oppose to but also an integral part of nature, a truly dialectical entity. It processes the raw sensory information into abstract concepts that it can cluster, segregate, shape, transform, and synthesize in order to predict the near future and to plan our response with a specific purpose in mind. Awareness of the future is what make us humans. In the aesthetics of human evolution, the author points out that awareness of the other's existential reality changed the trajectory of our species' adaptive capabilities from genetics to culture, a qualitative transformation. In time and the logic of change the author points out that nature's adaptive randomness is time consuming while human adaptive creativity is time busting churning technological innovations at an ever-faster pace. New emergent technologies are providing us new avenues of survival. The control of nuclear fusion will end our solar dependency, and like the control of fire of yore will bring us closer to reaching escape velocity. A technological jump that will provide a real chance of escaping our birth planet and attain interplanetary, and with time, interstellar mobility. A survival feat beyond the divine.