contexts

Dr. P.W., a scientist, joins our dialogue group for a couple of dialogues.
He talks to us about the multiple "influences" on the fetus during pregnancy, like the stress of the mother, nutrition, chemicals, etc.....

His words inspire in us the feeling of the tremendous number and multiple forms of the influences we receive while being a fetus and the influence of all these in our future life....

We also get a "feeling" that these "influences" come also from a long evolutionary past......that we are the result of an incredibly long chain of influences during the evolution of the species......and that we are not aware of them, but that they are still "acting" right now.......

This brought about the feeling that we are not aware of this "context", the extent of the context of the past, still "working" today.....

And on the same line, we became aware of how unaware we are of another "context", the context of the present......everything that is happening right now in the whole universe.....an explosion of activity and creativity....millions and millions and millions of things happening at this very moment........our "context" in the present....

Is our awareness very "local", circumscribed to a small radius around us?
If we were to be more aware of the immense context of the past and of the present, would our concept of the "me" change?...........