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In Mineral Unconsciousness and Unobserved
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Mars was empty before we came. That's not to say that nothing had ever happened. The planet had accreted, melted, roiled and cooled, leaving a surface scarred by enormous geological features: craters, canyons, volcanoes. But all of that happened in mineral unconsciousness, and unobserved. There were no witnesses--except for us, looking from the planet next door, and that only in the last moment of its long history. We are all the consciousness that Mars has ever had. -Kim Stanley Robinson

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“Geologists take it for granted that rock equals time,” Allmon said. “I don’t know of another experience that we all have in our daily lives where a solid substance represents time.”

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