Originally Posted by Robert Tulip

From an evolutionary perspective, science is, in a sense, how the earth thinks. Thought is a physical product of cumulative human adaptation to terrestrial systems, making thought, like all life, a complex product of the earth. In its highest form, thought seeks to truly reflect reality. Reflecting reality through scientific thought involves representing reality, including the earth, by concepts as thought. This representation function is a physical biological product of human ecology, as are reason, will and spirit. Further, since the earth is part of the solar system, and largely a caused product of the sun, science may be seen as how the sun thinks. Ideas are to the sun as leaves are to a tree. Thought is a physical product of the solar system at its most complex point – the earth. The measuring function of thought is a real physical structure in the universe, and, to the extent it is centred on our planet, all thought is in some sense geocentric.