Posted 11/2/2013
For the following recipe a universe will be necessary. 1. Explode a star and sow interstellar space with the remnants. 2. Allow time and gravity to work. 3. Wait for the debris to coalesce and ignite as a second-generation star (the supernova will have cooked up the heavy elements required for life). 4. Place a fresh molten planet in the Goldilocks zone. 5. Let cool. 6. Add rain. 7. When life appears, allow it to evolve for nearly four billion years. 8. Wait for a creature to engage in abstract reasoning. 9. Allow this analytical intelligence to evolve for a few hundred thousand years. 10. IMPORTANT! The self-aware creature must become cognizant of a fatal flaw in its psychology if it is to transcend it's flight/fight, ego-dominated state and advance to the next level of evolution. Failure to identify and divest itself of this flaw--an insidious form of insanity (confusing subjective opinion with objective fact)--will result in the recipe being ruined and thrown out.
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