The tree of life grew, its branches stretching toward complexity.
Organisms developed systems, subsystems, and sub-subsystems, layered in
ever-deepening regression. They used these systems to anticipate their
future and to change it. When they looked within, some found that they
had selves—constellations of memories, ideas, and purposes that
emerged from the systems inside. They experienced being alive and had
thoughts about that experience. They developed language and used it to
know themselves; they began to ask how they had been made.
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