Lyndon H. LaRouche Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente A THESIS CARRYING A UNIQUELY ORIGINAL MESSAGE: The End for Dummies! 4 November 2012 October 18, 2012 [1] Several Opening Points Urgently To Be Considered: 1. The estimated ability of mankind to continue to live under the presently reigning, but evolving conditions of our present Sun, is by no means a kind of arrangement designed to endure simply forever. As some academic estimates which had been kicked about among physical-science circuits, have indicated, there is an estimated range of about two billions years, until the Sun “explodes,” or, a much earlier doom for human beings still remaining on Earth would occur. 2. Nonetheless, if there is no evidence, yet, that the human species itself, even if not also our present Sun, might actually become capable of outliving such kinds of currently “guess-timated” dates, that remains a pos- sible option until shown otherwise. On this account, mankind is already known to us as being, intrinsically, unlike any other species known to us as presently existing now, or having existed. Man- kind is essentially unlike all other living creatures pres- ently known to us here on Earth; mankind is, for us presently, the only known case of a form of life which has actually voluntarily creative capabilities. The prac- tical challenge to be considered for our references, here, is: “Should we believe that our species, with its uniquely, categorical noëtic abilities, might, therefore, be capable of continuing to survive indefinitely?” 3. I present these introductory points on that account from where I am now situated on certain, admittedly on “shaky” evidence, but evidence which is, nonetheless, sound argument. The systemic distinction of the already established “history” of our species, is that of a species which is biologically unique, a species which is presently contrasted, thus, to all others presently known to us. This thought is not “wild guesswork” in any sense. Our own species possesses an inherent potential, which lies beyond the limits of the primitive notions of what is called “sense-perception;” we are capable of willfully upward evolution of its already demonstrated potential for action, that with an accessibly unique quality of sys- temically willful, noëtic characteristics. These noëtic characteristics are both absolutely unlike, and far, far beyond, the achievements of any other species known to exist, or to have existed for us presently. Yet, we continue to surprise the usual doubters, that while we remain merely mortals, we now remain none- theless, essentially a living testament to the specific uniqueness, among all other expressions of known life, of what is presently known as mankind. Individual per- sons are ostensibly mortal, intrinsically, but the noëtic mental capabilities within the bounds of our species, are in that degree, potentially immortal in our consequences. ... To continue [1] Here, I return to a topical area which I have touched upon in some depth on earlier occasions. Here, I go into the core of that issue.