The Universe is Queer
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That the universe has arranged itself into collations of matter (us), that can understand it to the extent that we have is what I find the most unfathomable..
We have ability and understanding that far outstrip our biological need for them - as the hunter-gathers we appear to be, when viewed next to our relatives, (ie all other life, not just the other apes), why we have the ability to split the atom, comprehend quantum physics and e=mc-squared, evolution, cosmology and math is a true mystery and where we go and what we do with this ability, on an evolutionary time-scale will surely smack of intelligent design when we finally achieve it.
Before then we have some way to go with gravity, the more complex biology, and pyscho-neuro sprituality and associated politics..
Anthropic principals aside (we could not have the discussion were the conditions NOT so finely tuned for life), in the 21st C., we are struggling for a paradigm to explain just how unlikely is our existence in this universe, and just how strange a place that is, and by extension, we are ourselves.
Take my brother, for instance - he swears by IE5 running on a Mac, and spends most of his waking hours trying to access Heavy.com on his dialup connection, and refining his online portfolio using Comic Sans and animated gifs.