March 19, 2013

• When i was a boy , my dad once tried to tell me what is inside of a car. He is a marvelously mechanically minded person. whose talent for understanding things machine wise has proven very advantageous during my childhood. however one day we were at the station wagon. typical brady mobile pontiac when he began to tell me what the different innards of the car were. this is called the butterfly valve, i nodded got ya, the lung. this is the fuel pump, right i said, the heart. he went on like that and i was translating it to what i would know the object as. It was funny , but it also worked, i have a pretty good understanding of cars as a result of me comparing it to a living thing. As time went on, i still find automobiles to be quite effective when thinking of life on earth. the whole transgression of cars from the model t to the electric hybrids that exist today is really like a primer to evolution and the process which is self evident in the fossil record. however, what motivates life to change this millenia ‘s model sedan is sometimes quite uneasily accounted for. when it comes to trying to understand the natural expression of life and the genetic evolution in its vast variety, there is always a stunning fascination one will feel. for the genius of life is far superior to any human mind, even know the mind is itself an expression of that very same genius.

   one of the things that i tend to debate a lot with geneticists is the concept of randomness they love to embrace. with their perception of the variance of the genetic code being mutation and it falls into the darwin concept of survival of the fittest. which, is really misunderstood by people these days. the term does not mean being the biggest silver-back gorilla and being able to fend off everything around because it is superior in strength.though to be honest, that particular idea works fine for the gorilla concept of being fit. really what darwin meant was, the species with the most offspring is the fittest. so, technically rabbits could potentially be the most fittest thing around, by numbers. rodents are one of the most fittest species of mammal there is. so although i can totally agree on this aspect with the genetic afficiandos , i do not necessarily believe that there is a wholey unbiased randomness involved. see, the dynamic that i am talking about belongs to life as a whole. it is self preservation and the will to live. this alone creates a quality that can only be recognized and is always incredibly genius in its expression. one example that comes straight to my mind is the nature of asian or mongoloid eyes. the extra layer of fat enabling these people to see in the brilliant glare of the snow. of all the possible solutions that would seem logical to the human mind, that is one that i doubt anyone would have figured out. we would have figured some kind of filtration of light glare or something along the lines of naturual sunglasses. but, an extra layer of fat/ incredible and absolutely ingenious.

   so,  we have this incredible intelligence in life that seeks to manifest the will to live and self preservation within it’s forms. sometimes , we can get a glimpse of life’s intelligence. due to its persistence of using the same type of solutions regardless of species. dolphins and sharks are an example of this. where a previously land animal , goes back into the ocean and it acquires the same answers that an animal that has been the model of perfection since it was first on earth. they have physiological traits that are identical on paper. streamlind body which is very close to a sharks. porpoises look more so that way , dorsal fins and flukes on tails that differ really because one goes side to side whereas the other goes up and down.when you consider that these traits are not exactly shared by other marine mammals , you begin to see the intelligence of life. though the reason why becomes hazy, as a manatee certainly throws a lot of presumption into the waste basket.yet here we have two species whale and shark both almost identical. whale sharks , with their broad head and snout (mouth) compared to other plankton eating whales, does itself almost seem to have found the same solution. to think that two species , completely alien to each other, with different stimuli (echolocation versus the magical lateral line of all fish) still manifest almost identical body types. it is hard not to think that there is an intelligence behind evolution. something not exactly bound by chance alone.

   ok, i sense a no duh moment here, but you see , most people want to attribute this to an invisible alien entity they call a god or perhaps to the universal way of a cosmic intelligence. it seems that very few want to actually accept that it is really just life practicing its will to live. maybe it is because it does it openly or presumed massive scale of such a change seems too unworldly . i dont really know. however, myself, i have come to recognize that life is a perfect way to know what is important in the universe. because life, pays absolute attention to the universe. i have marveled over this magnificent awareness of life for a very long time. as we humans typically walk around in our made up social and culture inflicted fantasy worlds. fully involved with it from a need to fulfill the primate requisite of socialized behavior. around us we have plants, that are intrinsically aware and devoid of the modern human world or mind. they are completely aware of the sun. the distance, the existence and object. they track it faithfully everyday admist us humans who are numbed by our creation of utopia. the reason why plants do this is not a mystery at all to us, but it is the concept that these forms of life are aware of a distance and an object that is so far away , the light that it sends is 7mins late.so you see, plants live in the universal frame of reference. they exist according to forces of the universe and live lifespans that defy any animal in existence and possibly extinct. this vast awareness of things that are completely lost to the human perpetuation of earth that animals and life has is almost as incredible as existence. birds are aware of the magnetic north, so are sharks,who use it to navigate where they are going. this means that some forms of life are aware of an invisible energy that still defies rational explanation except it can be recreated by electricity and appears to be a property of atoms. they can see it and react to it using it’s variation they encounter to adjust their paths of transit. all we can do, is use sound and the light of the sun as our navigational aids.

   all these things and pretty much everything alive on earth is an expression of this vast intelligence and it’s need to survive. nothing can solve problems like life. each peculiar thing that we find out about an animal is an answer to some complex problem that life has not only solved but as it continues to survive perfect. perfect so much that many different species belonging to radically different types of life will ultimately find similar solutions. yet for all the similarity there are some answers that remain absolutely fascinating in their concept. we humans have one such thing that is both unique and extremely genius. being bipedal we had to manifest a balance. since we don’t have tails (only the remnants) the counter balance afforded by a tail as was present in the dinosaurs is not available. the answer was to have the middle ear with hairs and one that will stimulate a sensation so keen, when we altered our posture.you may say, we have tails in our ears. however, it is the solution that is amazing. it defies rational thought. i doubt that any human would have come up with that as a possible solution.

   so like cars, life has these templates and amazing history of engineering solutions that when viewed objectively not only changed radically , but did so in a common fashion for reasons that became apparent only after the first car was made. cars , it seems always started out large and very waste producing. this is comparable to practically every type of animal that has ever existed. practically every specimen of life on earth has at one time or the other , had a specimen that was huge in relativistic frames of relevance. even cells have an example that lives to this day. the largest cell in the world is a ostrich egg.which brings me to what i wanted to talk about.

   there was this incredibly huge snake fossil found recently in brazil. the snake belonged to the python family and was around presumably after the dinosaurs . it was incredibly huge. very long and whilst obeying the proportion of a snake of immense length was very thick. it was a very successful predator and in theory should not have died out. for all we know it has, though there have been many sightings of incredibly large snakes in our written history. so it became a question of why did they die out. usually, like cars, it is because some force in the ecology due to lack or some other variable has occurred. there is a condition called island dwarfism/gigantism which is recognizable even to this day with some species of animals. this is easily attributed to the availability of food. however, these snakes whose name i forget, so i am going to call it megapython lived in an excellent fauna/swamp environment with it’s territory being challenged by it’s own predator.  it becomes a real question as to what happened to megapython. turns out the answer was not a result of ecological abundance. it was a ratio of body mass versus temperature of the climate. in other words, the climate was hotter when it existed, its metabolism was able to maintain incredible size. the reason why megapython doesn’t exist and probably doesn’t even in a cryptozoological meaning is because we are a few degrees cooler then when it lived. so heat equals bigger snakes. given the global warming this is something to look forward to for sure.

   so cars have given me incredible insight with animal both past and present , but what fascinates me is the story and solutions that life has come up with.because although cars can be easily understood about the reason for change. life is not so easily deciphered, but it has incredible understanding of the real universe so much that it does things that no one would ever be able to come near.only life , whose model t ford long after the other life and models came out unlike the real t-ford is superior even when primitive.

   

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