Chilled with some Ag kids at Carlo Court and were loud and probably disrupted a few people's meal times.
Feels good to have a free morning on Tuesday, and of course, 5 more
Now some largely unrelated musings about living organisms.
Cells divide without really knowing why they're dividing. They think they're living their own lives and dividing for themselves - but they help us function as a whole organism.
What if life on Earth is really just a huge pseudo-organism? Different species are analogous to different cell types.
Because, do you know why you reproduce? Apart from "to have sex". Which is a major part of it, but why?. Life could have just programmed us to really want to reproduce, with no real reason at all, but the reason is just to keep life on Earth alive.
So just like we drive our minions (our cells) to keep us alive, so does Nature drives minions (us! =O) to keep itself alive.
Why am I even talking I should be sleeping lolol
3 comments:
"What if life on Earth is really just a huge pseudo-organism?"
sure if you want to define 'pseudo-organism' like that. although it's not like 'organism' isn't already a wide enough definition. :D
"Because, do you know why you reproduce? Apart from "to have sex"."
that's like asking 'why does evolution occur?' or 'why does 1+1=2?' it doesn't have to have a purpose for its existence, but there is a cause/reason (god english why are you so vague) - i.e. things which self-propagate tend to survive and things that don't self-propagate tend to disappear. (1+1=2 propagates because
- it's a useful idea for humans
- it's systematically taught to humans who don't find it useful because other humans find it useful). (sorry if this was a misinterpretation of what you were saying.)
"So just like we drive our minions (our cells) to keep us alive, so does Nature drives minions (us! =O) to keep itself alive."
we don't drive our cells to survive; our cells just find it easier to survive as a community collectively known as a 'human'. analogy: do countries drive their people to survive?
sorry if this sounds condescending :L
Haha I don't know - Bio is clear cut within it self, but on the grand scale of things is rather wishy washy.
And the inexplicable (from our end) nature of our existence and random drive to continue it in future generations. Like, why should we care if we do not reproduce?
We don't drive our cells to survive, true.
We do, however, make sure they continue being there for as long as possible.
And hence for your analogy - countries do ensure their citizens stay alive as long as possible (screw the soldiers because it's fun to fight. But I guess they're analogous to white blood cells or something).
I think I might've read about something similar to this in New Scientist. They called it the Gaia hypothesis, probably after the one in Greek mythology, but maybe because someone was an Asimov fan or something. Note, I haven't googled/wikied this in a long time and I might be wrong.
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