This thread relates to several going on right now. Evolution is fractal in nature, because nature
is fractal. What was successful for a cellular community, will be sucessful for a human community.
Excerpts from Spontaneous Evolution
"The remarkable harmony displayed at the cellular level is the one truly noteworthy character that distinguishes successful eukaryotic cell communities from the current state of human society. Cellular societies that compromise our bodies truly exemplify the United States motto,
e pluribus unum, "out of many, one". Each cell is an individual, yet they all behave and support one another.
Unity does not mean uniformity. A liver cell does not physically or functionally resemble a muscle cell, which, in turn, does not look like a nerve cell. The cells, while functionally forming a whole, are subdivided by borders into communities that we distinguish as uniquely different tissues and organs. Each community contributes a task, talent, or mission that supports the body's survival."
Are Our Cells Smarter Than We Are?
"Observing the day-to-day operations of our cellular citizens may come as a blow to our collective ego because just about everything we humans do, including the development of technology, our cells did first and, to this very day, still do better:
For example, cells have:
*A
monetary system that pays cells according to the importance of the work they do and stores excess profits in community banks
*A
research and development system that creates technology and manufactures biochemical equivalents of steel cables, plywood, ferroconcrete, electronic circuitry, and high-speed computer networks
*An
environmental system that provides air and water purification treatment that is more technologically advanced than humans have ever imagined. Ditto for the heating and cooling system.
*An exceedingly complex and extremely fast
communications system, like the Internet,that sends zip-coded messages directly to individual cells
*A
criminal justice system that detains, imprisons, rehabilitates, and yes, in a Kevorkian way, even assists with the suicide of destructive cells
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Full health-care coverage that makes sure each cells gets all it needs to stay healthy
*An
immune system that protects the cells and the body like a dedicated National Guard"
Tehnology: Cells Hit The Industrial Age Ages Ago
"Approximately one half of the body's mass is comprised of extracellular matrices, known as collagen......In fact, if all the cells were removed from a human body, the extracelluar collagen would maintain the body's structure intact......
To gain an appreciation of the body's technological skill, collagen filaments spun into rope-like fiber, such as those that comprise tendons and ligaments, have vastly more strength, flexibility, and far less weight than equal-sized filaments of steel......
Pouring cartilage into preformed shapes molded by collagen matrices, chondrocytes (cells) create freestanding sculptures such as the nose and earlobe. Cartilage, like concrete, is fragile....Therefore, eukaryote freemasons learned to reinforce their cartilage with the steel-like collagen filaments, thus creating fibrocartilage, the organic equivalent of rebar reinforced ferroconcrete."
The Cellular Economy: No Cell Left Behind
"To maintain itself and empower its functions, a body expends energy as it works to procure and process food....Cells, then, extract energy from that food and store it in the form of stable ATP molecules, which is the cellular equivalent of money. ATP coins are exchanged among the community's cells as salaries to cover the cost of expended energy..."
"In exchange for ATP salaries, cells work for the system and pool their productivity. Cells can bank extra energy savings by storing ATP coins in their cytoplasm. ATP salaries are commensurate with the cell's contribution to the body. Cells whose efforts are more vital to the community get paid more ATP...While cells are on different pay scales, every cell is provided with the basics of life: food, shelter, health care, and protection.
Excess energy, the equivalent of cellular profits, is stored in what might be called regional and national banks, physically represented by..fat cells...However, savings are not stored in individual accounts. Rather all energy reserves are available for use by the entire community...energy reserves can be sent anywhere in the system where they are needed to build, upgrade, or repair the body's infrastructure....cells can freely contribute their efforts to the community and never have to worry about where their next ATP paycheck will come from.
In regard to ATP/ADP exchange, the body is a closed system, which means there's no external lending mechanism or procedure from which the body can borrow energy...there is no Federal Reserve Bank with the power to coin ATP....This means that cells cannot charge dept on an Ascended MasterCard to be repaid in the a future lifetime - with or without interest. Therefore, true fiscal conservatives will be happy to know that the body's energy budget is always balanced."
A Healthy Central Voice: The Cellular Intelligence Agency
"The flow of information between the external environment and the internal cells makes the nervous system's regulatory function tantamount to the body's government.
The governing nervous system does not tell the other body cells how to do their jobs. The heart cells beat and the cells of the digestive system process food because of their own built-in intelligence....Ganglia resemble state governments that process local organ-related information, as distinct from the brain, which functions as the central government and manages what might be called the affairs of the "Federation of Organs"...
As the central information processing system, the brain trusts that the organs and organ systems will regulate their own functions, and it continues to operate under that protocol until it recieves an indication that a job isn't being performed properly....
It is profoundly important to emphasize that the nervous system is not a top-down means of authoritarian control but, rather, an interactive communication system....good governments and healthy bodies operate with a two-way information exchange...cellular citizens respond to informaton stimuli within the body by voicing their opinions to the central nervous system via communication that we perceive as emotions and symptoms"
(are you hungry yet?
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The Natural Economy: What Would Our Cells Do?
"By contrasting the successful cellular economy with the failing global fiscal economy, we can identify four fundamental principles of economics in which human policies profoundly differ from cellular practices.
Principle One: Wealth is Well-Being
When cells assembled...the economic emphasis was not on the wealth of the individuals but on the well-being of the collective, that is, the common, or shared, wealth of all.
The wealth of a healthy economy is measured in terms of abundance...cellular communities posses wealth only after the basic needs of each cellular citizen are met. Therefore, cells in one part of the body do not hoard energy while cells in another part of the community are in need
Principle Four: Currency Must Represent Real Wealth
Money is defined by three functions: it is a medium of exchange, it represents units of account, and it is a store of value....ATP molecules are the planet's first currency, and they provide all three functions that characterize money"
"And here's an important lesson we can learn from these early enterprises: The sucess of these (cellular) systems, as businesses, is not based on
competitiveness with other organs and tissues. Rather, sucess is measured by how well each organ fulfills its job of
cooperating with other systems."
this is our evolutionary fractal destiny!
I hope Bruce doesn't mind me posting so much of his book, nah, I think he's cool with it
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