FADE IN.
Act 1
INT. STUDY - DAY
PETER is thinking.
PETER (V.O.): I'd like to restart my philosophical investigation. I'd initially take a historical approach by reviewing the state of the art, in philosophical terms.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Doing a systematic exposition of existing philosophy enables me to have a better understanding of the world's philosophical theses, antitheses and syntheses.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Knowing the historical philosophical landscape enables me to identify the areas where I can create and deliver philosophical value.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As an arts student, I studied History in my secondary and post-secondary days. I studied the History of Philosophy while doing my BA in Philosophy.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My objectives then were to pass the examinations and get the qualifications. Now, I want to get out of the box, think big and make philosophical impact.
Act 2
INT. STUDY - CONTINUOUS
Surfing the web, Peter watches a video clip.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The taped talk looks at history from the cosmic perspective. How come there's life on Earth? Why humans are vulnerable and fragile?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): To understand that, we'd have to survey the whole history of the universe and begin from the beginning.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Around 13.7 billion years ago, there's nothing in the Universe, not even spacetime. Suddenly, came the threshold moment - the Big Bang.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The Big Bang released the initial singularity which was an atomic-like, incredibly hot dense point, containing all the energy and spacetime of the Universe. Then it continued to expand at an incredible speed.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Some 380,000 years after the Big Bang, stable simple atoms of hydrogen and helium began to form. They have their clouds.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When protons started to fuse at the temperature 10 million degrees due to gravitational force, the first Stars, billions of them, were born - 200 million years after the Big Bang.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Stars created new conditions and formed all the fundamental elements, resulting in our Solar System 4.54 billion years ago.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): With the appropriate energy level, great diversity of elements and liquid water, chemistry began to happen. DNA templates in molecules contained information as to how to make living organisms. The information began to spread in the last 4 billion years.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The DNAs are learning too, allowing greater complexity and diversity. About 600-800 million years ago, multi-cellular living things from fish and plants to reptiles to dinosaurs began to appear.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth, resulting the extinction of dinosaurs.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): But our early ancestors managed to survive. Human beings began to appear in Africa within 200,000 years ago. They have brains and their languages of communication.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The humankind is the only species after 4 billion years to have that powerful and creative capacity - to have a history.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): After the ice age 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm, creating conditions for population growth. And about 500 years ago, humans began to link up globally through international land and sea transport.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): With the advance of humans' information and communication technology, the world is more linked up than ever and access to information is easy.
Reflecting.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The biggest flaw of my relearning hypothesis in history is this: I just think about history in terms of life and humanity, forsaking my slim share of the cosmic time-space.
Act 3
INT. STUDY - CONTINUOUS
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As an instance of the complex human creature in a complicated and expanding Universe, I've derived my present being from the billion years of historical development.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): These days, knowledge management and transfer have become so user-friendly and accessible.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Now is like humankind's singularity threshold moment. Collective learning and knowledge management can maintain and sustain the common heritage of all humankind.
Reflecting.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As an instant of the historical life force, humans' ephemeral existence on Earth shouldn't be considered as absurd or meaningless at all. In the big-history context, any humans can live authentic lives.
Reflecting.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In restarting my philosophical investigation, I'd take the big-history perspective. I'll contribute my brain and communicative power to make humankind on Earth less vulnerable and fragile, physically and spiritually.
FADE OUT.
THE END

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