Does Light Direct Life Toward Cosmic Awareness?

Issue title: Contagious Creativity – In Honor of the 80th Birthday of Professor Solomon Marcus

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Head, Tom

Affiliations: Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000 USA. [email protected]

Note: [] Address for correspondence: Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000 USA

Abstract: The evolution of life on our planet is briefly reviewed emphasizing the roles played by light and language. Life and language are regarded as a single interlocking system which light has stimulated to serve as an organ of cosmic awareness. Light first rewarded life with energy. Light then stimulated life to grow upward from the surface of our planet. Life is now integrating into itself detailed knowledge of the cosmos by decoding the vast store of information contained in celestial light.

Keywords: Light & life, astrobiology, cosmos, awareness

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 64, no. 1-4, pp. 185-189, 2005