For thousands of years we have formulated myths and narratives about our origin in the Cosmos. Over
the course of the last 500 years or so, we have used the Scientific Method to provide
reproducible evidence for such relationships. We now have adequate evidence for our physiologic
origin in the unicellular state, and how and why the unicell has evolved into progressively
more complicated physiologic structures and functions, described as ontogeny and phylogeny.
The underlying mechanism for the evolution of physiologic traits is Margulis's Symbiogenesis,
the assimilation of physical factors in the environment that have posed existential threats. This
is the critical juncture in the evolution of life caused by the merging of physics and biology; this is in
contradistinction to the Anthropic Principle, which states that we are 'in' this environment, not of
it. Because our physiology derives from the physical environment, it must comply with the
same Laws of Nature as the Cosmos does. Consequently, it is our physiology that conveys the
Laws of Nature, which we conventionally thought of as consciousness.
