Yet is Wilson staking a claim on things he cannot know and will never know. Yet is a denial of limits, the squeak of hubris, the antithesis of humility. Life is a miracle, never, ever to be reduced to chemistry and physics. There is simply no ''not yet'' about it. Yet has consequences, Berry states.
People exploit machines.
They defend what they love. And no one loves a machine. Yes, indeed, yet has consequences, Wilson states. Yet is the Enlightenment belief ''that entirely on our own we can know, and in knowing, understand, and in understanding, choose wisely,'' he insists. If life is truly ''a miracle,'' then our best efforts will come to naught.