[February 2005 journal entry]
‘Life’ represents a spectrum that encompasses all forms of ‘life’ – from no sense of ‘self’ and ‘community’ to the highest levels of sense of ‘self’ and ‘community’. Scientific inquiries over the past century or so have demonstrated that non-human ‘life’ forms have variations not previously known from the least sense of ‘self’ and ‘community’ across the spectrum to higher levels of sense of ‘self’ and ‘community’. Advances in medical interventions over the past century or so have made it possible to sustain the existence of human ‘life’ where there is no (longer any) sense of ‘self’ and ‘community’.
