The terms may differ, but the meaning is clear. When humankind first saw the world and its inhabitants through the lens of self-consciousness and began differentiating through the perspectives of space and time, noting outer variations between a diversity of beings and phenomena, all these manifestations marked the emergence of the cycle of consciousness at the human level on earth. And similarly, the flareup of mind in the early organism of mankind must epitomize a comparable event on the cosmic scale. In the infinity of space and time, there can be no end to it. The only difference is of scale or degree of unfoldment, if indeed such can be called a difference.
Physicists often talk of the imminence of the 'third revolution' in physics.
The first revolution is identified with the work of Galileo, Newton and their contemporaries, for it was in the seventeenth century that the foundations were laid for the systematic study of matter, force and motion by what we would today call the scientific method. The second revolution occurred around the turn of this century, with the theory of relativity, the quantum theory and the discovery of radioactivity. The universe has a life history. Instead of sliding into featurelessness, it rises out of featurelessness, growing rather than dying, developing new structures, processes and potentialities all the time, unfolding like a flower. The impression of design is overwhelming.