6. Plant Life: The First Full Realization of Q4P

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have spoken of the overarching epoch of life in the last chapter. We will further subdivide it now into this and the next two chapters because it really needs it. As we’ve seen, Complexification is exponential in nature.

That is to say, every time a Complexification event happens, it is of an order of magnitude larger than the last that came before it. Birnbaum tells us this is normal and expected. If you remember how we talked about the nested infinities that drive Q4P, we can only expect each event to be so much bigger and profound than the last. Such is the introduction of the first life epoch: plant life.

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