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Tuesday May 01, 2001 21:04:15
The AgnoBelief Cystem of Free Sovereign Individuality
There is probably nothing more important to an individual than
personal freedom. Penitentiary goes against all other DNA based life forms. In an age when
even your right to think is being questioned, the less you have; that can be called your
own, the more precious these facets of individuality become. We can postulate on the
theories for and of our existence and may eventually arrive at a unified theory of Life.
However, we must also postulate on the Now. We have been born. We are here. Right where
you are sitting Now. Surely, what We do with Life has as much Validity as where Life came
from? The question is that if we choose to personally explore Our life and to discover our
reasons for existence, to what extent are we allowed to pursue such a career?
At the end of the day, it is our actions, not our beliefs that define
who we are. If however you deem it necessary to use beliefs in order to justify your
actions you do nothing but perpetuate excuses formed by another.
Higher rEvolutionary Mutation
Find the Others
The singular is our foe & our fool
Duplicity is the instigation
Triplicity is the product
Quantum is the new search for the old
Quintiplicity is the contact with our true self
Sextuplicity rebalances the Mutation
Septuplicity empowers this creation
Octivation brings the creation & creator together as the
Singular
If as speculated the earth, a few billion years ago, was just a
sterile rock covered with puddles of chemical soup. And then random chemical
combinations - formed in these puddles, and some happened to absorb nutrients from the
outside, causing them to grow. They eventually split into smaller drops of roughly the
same composition. The "cells" that did a better job of attracting chemicals and
dividing survived and split into future generations. These cells evolved an information processing mechanism, a way of recording for
posterity their recipes for success. The mechanism they evolved - the genetic code
of DNA - is still in use today. With DNA came an
evolutionary advantage: knowledge, as genetic recipes, could accumulate
from generation to generation. As cells became more sophisticated, they started to
communicate, exchanging chemical messages. Synergistic communities developed that survived
or failed together; if the community was successful, all the individuals were favoured by evolution. This step took another billion years - bringing
life to the stage of multicellular communities, in which cells are no longer out for
themselves: digestive cells depend on skin and muscle cells, and vice versa. These
communities became so close that they collaborated in writing the whole recipe of the
community on one string of DNA. The most interesting evolution shifted from the cellular
level to the community level. Next, these communities of cells, these organisms,
began to abstract information and build special structures - neural structures - that did
nothing but process information within
the community. After communities of cells built up a data processing apparatus (the
neuron), they developed structures for sensing, recording, and understanding information -
eyes, ears, and brains. With neurons, learning happened within the time span of a
single organism. An organism could learn not to eat a fruit that repeatedly made it sick.
Lessons no longer had to be absorbed through evolution, through the diminished fitness of
millions of individuals over many millennia. Then these learning individuals started
working out the quirks of communicating with each other. The most sophisticated version is
human language, whereby
complex ideas in one brain generate ideas in another. This lets us function as a
community, and in some sense as a single organism. And so we - humanity - have repeated
the process of connection, communication, and construction of specialised structures to
process our communal information. We're replicating the levels of chemicals and
multicellular organisms, abstracting out our methods of sensing, recording, and
understanding information. Language was only the first step. Telephony, computers, and
CD-ROMs are all specialised mechanisms we've built to bind us
together. Now evolution takes place in microseconds. The first steps in the
story of evolution took a billion years. The next step - nervous systems and brains
- took a few hundred million years. Thee next steps, including the development of language,
took less than a million years. And the most recent steps seem to be taking only a few
decades. The process is feeding on itself and becoming autocatalytic. And now
we are beginning to depend on computers to help us evolve new computers that let us
produce things of much greater complexity. Yet we don't quite understand the process -
it's getting ahead of us. We're now using programs to make much faster computers so the
process can run much faster. That's what's so confusing - technologies are feeding back on
themselves; we're taking off. We're at that point analogous to when single-celled
organisms were turning into multicelled organisms. We are amoebas and we can't figure out what the hell this thing is that
we're creating. We are not at the end of this story - we are not evolution's
ultimate product. There's something coming after us, something wonderful. But we may
never be able to comprehend it, any more than a caterpillar
can comprehend turning into a butterfly.
The Big Picture By Danny Hillis
KarmaNaut
Fascimocracy the new way that governments get things done
DeOxyRiboNeuChaos
The Kallisto Effect was formed on the First of May 2000 c.e.
and this date is to be forever recognised as the date of Inception.
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