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It pushed and kicked, clawed its way to the Surface. To feel, to touch, it waited silent eons for atoms to meet, just right, click, and recognize.
To take in the energy of light, the warming spectrum of energy occupying a sliver of reality, it settled into a small range of Being, learned to react to the wavelengths of energy, and saw.
Taking the results of countless lives and deaths of stars, the spoils of the war of gravity against heat, it waited patiently for complexity to fall into the right shape - a spiral of simplicity that represented the meaning of information.
And there was a Moment. The elements organized, and awoke. Eyes captur