The Ancestor's Ta[le/il]
By fc on December 31, 2013 12:18 am
WARNING: LOUD AND NOISY. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU.
Words by Daniel C. Dennett.
"It is estimated that well over 99 percent of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without having had offspring. And yet here you are: of all your billions of ancestors over the years, from single cells to worms to fish to reptiles to mammals to primates, not a single one of them died childless. How lucky you are! Of course, every blade of grass has an equally long and proud heritage, and every mosquito, and every elephant and every daisy." (Dennett, 2013)
I found these words particularly elegant, and thought they would go well in a piece. It's a long piece, and is very noisy. In fact, it is made up mostly of white noise, at least to begin with. It was done entirely in PureData. Also, due to its length, I had to compress to 128kbps. Sorry.
DENNETT, D. C. 2013. Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.
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