‘We can decide that we do not want to take the path of the survival of the fittest and strongest, but one of compassion and selflessness.’ Photo: by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
A work in progress: Howard Grace looks for the next step in human evolution
‘Where is this conscious process heading?’
I recently watched the thought-provoking film Oppenheimer. It’s based on the life of J Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project – the scientific scheme that eventuated in the atom bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of the film, after the bombs have been dropped, Oppenheimer talks to fellow physicist Albert Einstein, reminding him of a time in the process when he had asked him to check some calculations. Oppenheimer’s team had worried that using an atom bomb might start a chain reaction that could destroy the entire world, but then believed they had (theoretically) proved otherwise. ‘When I came to you with those calculations,’ says Oppenheimer, ‘we thought we might… destroy the entire world.’
