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Heartman's Theory of Evolution is an interview in Death Stranding.
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The evolution of life on Earth could be described as the evolution of consciousness. When the first vertebrates clambered out of the oceans and onto the land, their consciousness expanded to process the new realm that lay before them. But their development did not end there. Their eyes moved from their flanks to their fronts, that they might comprehend the depth of the world. Mammals formed groups, increasing their chances of survival. Eventually they came together in communities, and then larger societies. In order to preserve and maintain these structures, humans developed a perception of time. And in order for societies to outlast the lifespan of the individual, we conceived of an afterlife, and a future beyond ourselves...
Alas, the Death Stranding threatens to undo all our progress. Consider the chiral network, which incorporates the Beach, where time does not exist. Or consider timefall, which rapidly accelerates the degradation of that which it comes into contact with. How can our sense of time, honed over millions of years, remain intact when we must cope with such irrational phenomena?
Yet that is but the tip of the proverbial iceberg. We are growing apart, retreating into isolation, gradually losing our place within society. I would even go so far as to say our conceptions of reality are under threat. How could they not be, when our very eyes deny the invisible BT that stands before us? The Stranding has warped our consciousness, in every sense. If the evolution of life on Earth is indeed akin to the evolution on consciousness, then what is happening now is undeniably a regression, is it not?
There is one caveat, of course. Some of us are now far more “aware" of death than we ever were. That is what DOOMS has given us. For me, therefore, DOOMS is not merely a biological change. I prefer to think of it as a means by which I have achieved a new form of consciousness.
Furthermore, I hope and believe that this new awareness of the other side is
humanity's trump card as we seek to defeat the Death Stranding..