| I'm thankful for all the extremely improbable things that had to happen for me to have the experience I'm having. I am thankful - To have been born to loving, educated parents -To live in a time and place with economic and social liberty - To have a loving and growing group of friends and family around the world who live interesting and inspiring lives -To live in a time where so many of us can travel at the speed of sound and communicate at the speed of light -To be able to ask any question, purchase any common object, or want to see any loved one face-to-face, and have my wish fulfilled by a vast global network of machines that do our bidding -For the millions of seekers, of wise men and women, who created wonders from the energy of the sun and the materials of the Earth, and showed us the way through the darkness -That after 1000 trillion creatures and eons of failed attempts, one particular hairless ape on one particular wet rock evolved a 3 pound mass of flesh into the most sophisticated computational apparatus in the universe - That it feels like anything at all to be thinking meat. |