103/104 jbml thln a clumsy ending to be continued?

You are certainly right to distinguish the characterization of human extinction by "as if we had never been" & nor "we never were."

We cannot change the chronological past, neither can we erase the historical record we leave behind - in fact the changes our behavior will have induced in earth's environment may be our most significant legacy.

Put slightly dfferent, "G d" will certainly 'remember us', but perhaps not remember us fondly.
Meanwhile, this exercise in pre-nostalgia is about to stop, and I find myself asking what were we thinking when we began?

It was something about the miracle of human communication in language, the relationship of language to memory, time and useful predictions ~ the possibility that language could help us build a future that is wise enough not to exclude the likelihood of human survival from the index of leading economic indicators.

With so many omissions from this conversation, and so many possibilities thrown into the air that never fell back into the discussion, I am left with the feeling that this book may join the pile of others I have promised myself to read one day, so that I can find what's it about.

If only there were more time.
And this is precisely the unanswered question ~ can that lament be communicated in human language, and translated into a set of relationships that allows us to bring it about?

Time itself is in no apparent danger of stopping, but present indications suggest that several higher life forms on this planet are bound to be silenced in mid-sentence, leaving billions of messy narratives
with no meaningful conclusion.
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