Consider the lowly cell in your body. It’s alive, yet all it knows is the community of cells around it. It is not intelligent by itself, yet as a collection of cells that make up the human, the whole is something altogether different.

No individual cell could possibly comprehend what it is a part of. And you, as a cell aggregate, have no real awareness of any individual cell, nor do you care much if a given cell lives or dies, which cells do on a regular basis without us even knowing.

It is quite evident that the intelligence and awareness of humans is an emergent phenomena of the aggregate of cells: your particular brand of awareness and intelligent is emergent from the particular collection of cells and the peculiar configuration within you.

The question is, then, can the consideration of how a collection of living things that results in the human being give us any insight into a reality beyond us?

Is it possible that we are apart of an organism of which we are unaware?

Somewhere it was written: “Know Thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe”.

This either deep insight or pure baloney.