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οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν· φύλλα τὰ μέν τ’ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ’ ὕλη τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ’ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη· ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δ’ ἀπολήγει. (“Like the generations of leaves are those of men. The wind scatters one generation to the ground; the forest grows another when spring returns. So one generation of men grows while another passes away.”) - Homer, Iliad , VI.146–149 - In the previous post we traced Wille zum Leben from the moment immediately after the Big Bang to the rise of Human Agency and Will. We watched the birth and death of stars, and the emergence of Life. Somewhere during the journey we bid farewell to Schopenhauer, only to resurrect Wille at the end.      from a soup of quarks and particles,      we became protons and neutrons,       nuclei and atoms,       we gained a boundary; assembled into cells, and somewhere along the way burst into Life,      w...