Emergent Arrogance

During one time span of unknown duration in a universe far far away, a bunch of impossibly describable situations/happenstances with unclear existential values and locations, more like endless swarms of probabilities between 0 and 1 than actually definable values, reacted to a random set of rules, so that, watched from far away, they created fewer, larger situations, which almost began to seem like real situations. After a time, when these bigger situations, from an even more removed vantage point, seemed again to produce something more logical- even real, physical "objects" of some kind. It continued this way, so that the systems got more complicated and -in some ways more and some other ways less- logical, and it became harder and harder to see the starting situation and the real nature of all those cute little systems. At some point some of the systems began, again, behaving quite strangely, building large clusters, that hang around each other without any apparent forces keeping them together, and wich even in some very complicated and amazing ways, affected the approximate duplication of themselves. These strange groups of randomness and probabilities, while duplicating, changed slowly, oftentimes getting more complicated underway. Sometime during this process of divergent multiplication some of these groups of "reproducing entities" started to develop some strange sets of rules to their existence, which one -if some of their developed "behaviour" be understood as communication, by reading this (and others of their ways of moving from situation to situation)- could understand as something they communicate of as senses, empathy, feelings, ideas, thought processes, and even some kind of rudimentary consciousness. The quality and quantity of these emergent characteristics differs between the groups and subgroups and even between individual entities in one group, and they, as all other abilities of these strange apparitions change with time.
At some point, however, one group of these, lets call them creatures for convenience, rises above all the others in their application of these new mechanisms, beginning to change their surroundings as well as themselves, with the "intent" of doing so, but without truly understanding how the mechanics behind everything they change (and change with) work.
These creatures belong to those that could be counted as conscious, and oh, how conscious they are of their consciousness, how intellectual their intelligence is, how many ideas about ideas they get, how emotionally they view their emotions... And so twisted are the procedures by which they run, that out of this consciousness for consciousness and other wonderful capabilities emerges arrogance -arrogance for possessing these... Surely their complex systems cannot have the same, boring origins, as those of simpler systems, say, the universe, have, or if, then they must have been created for some higher purpose - by some higher purpose...?
And as these creatures develop further, they take pride in their intellect and let it grow, and thus they try to gain insights into the mechanisms that keep themselves and their surroundings running... And slowly they stumble their way down the ladders of this emergent universe, beginning to understand even the most basic mechanisms in some rudimentary fashion, gaining insight into the nature of existence, which then seems to be purposeless and without values - yet they still believe in their value and purpose...
Some funny paradoxes emerge from practically nothing, aight?

Music:
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
haunting, melancholic, gloomy, whatever and excellent album