One Strange Rock
Season 1 • Episode 9: Awakening • Watch with subtitles
Episode 9: Awakening
May 21, 2018 • 47 min
Your brain is an anomaly. We tend to think that once the first life emerged it was inevitable that it would eventually evolve into us. But there is nothing inevitable about consciousness. For over 2 billion years no life on earth possessed a brain. And even today, 90% of life doesn’t have a brain. How life and our strange rock came together to create consciousness is a story of almost impossible and unnecessary coincidences….
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