This is just brainstorming after some reading.
Sexual reproduction. The female has an egg containing half of her genetic material. Only half. Half of her genes are effectively tossed into the void. Males always give up slightly more than half of their genes (due to the organelles thing which i never heard of until the other day). The genes of each person dictate that this is the way that sexual reproduction will go.
So each human gene does not necessarily act in its own individual best interest. Each individual gene willingly subjects themselves to the lottery of possible destruction in order that the process of reproduction itself can continue. The genes as a whole act to reproduce reproduction. Individual genes with individual features are not attempting to ensure they're existence, they're acting in order to ensure the continued existence of the reproduction process. Or, the physical and inanimate object a gene is reproduced yes. But the process of reproduction is the fundamental result. Why do we say it is the gene that is providing the motive force behind the process, when it could be the process which is the living thing that abides. A hunk of genes lies cold and dead in a coffin, meanwhile the process goes on.
Entropy states that all systems degrade from high to low. But with evolution, single celled organisms eventually evolved into more complex arrangements. Evolution is a kind of anti-entropy glitch then. How is this possible. Maybe it's possible because of desire. Everything inanimate in the universe doesn't actually give a fuck about what inevitably happens to it. However, things that are alive and somewhat conscious, somewhat aware, somewhat desirous, and somewhat capable of purposeful action can respond to events, and even make use of the negative force of entropy, like a surfer makes use of powerful waves to surf. On second thought, that can't work, and life can't exist. It's all lies. No one's really here. Bees are too heavy to fly, and nothing can defy entropy because laws that exists in one set of circumstances exists in all circumstances Which is why Newtonian physics operates so perfectly at the Quantum level, oh wait it doesn't. So entropy operates great at the inanimate object level, but not so great at the level of life forms and beings which are capable of perceiving and responding to changing circumstances in a variety of transformative, and/or mutational ways.
Science says that consciousness did not exist anywhere, and then by accident at some point in time it suddenly did. They're probably right, but what is consciousness. If it's an object, what is it made from. If it's a process, what does the process involve and is there a range that goes from .0001% to 100% conscious. If something reacts to the environment, and behaves in a way that is purposeful, is consciousness a result. If consciousness exists in only one form, and the form is a direct result of brain structures, what are the minimum number of brain structures necessary, what are the names of those structures, how do they function together, and why do they produce consciousness.
dna has chemicals that investigate and read the strands of dna for errors. The effective result is that defects are noticed and corrected . Does the dna helix itself possess a kind of pre-consciousness. It notices, it responds to, and behaves in a purposeful manner in order to maintain itself. Viruses and computers can do that too though, but we wouldn't say they're conscious. When we speak of consciousness we don't mean awareness, we mean awareness plus desires. Things that behave in a purposeful way yet have no ability to desire are not conscious. Buddhists would probably disagree.
Sexual reproduction. The female has an egg containing half of her genetic material. Only half. Half of her genes are effectively tossed into the void. Males always give up slightly more than half of their genes (due to the organelles thing which i never heard of until the other day). The genes of each person dictate that this is the way that sexual reproduction will go.
So each human gene does not necessarily act in its own individual best interest. Each individual gene willingly subjects themselves to the lottery of possible destruction in order that the process of reproduction itself can continue. The genes as a whole act to reproduce reproduction. Individual genes with individual features are not attempting to ensure they're existence, they're acting in order to ensure the continued existence of the reproduction process. Or, the physical and inanimate object a gene is reproduced yes. But the process of reproduction is the fundamental result. Why do we say it is the gene that is providing the motive force behind the process, when it could be the process which is the living thing that abides. A hunk of genes lies cold and dead in a coffin, meanwhile the process goes on.
Entropy states that all systems degrade from high to low. But with evolution, single celled organisms eventually evolved into more complex arrangements. Evolution is a kind of anti-entropy glitch then. How is this possible. Maybe it's possible because of desire. Everything inanimate in the universe doesn't actually give a fuck about what inevitably happens to it. However, things that are alive and somewhat conscious, somewhat aware, somewhat desirous, and somewhat capable of purposeful action can respond to events, and even make use of the negative force of entropy, like a surfer makes use of powerful waves to surf. On second thought, that can't work, and life can't exist. It's all lies. No one's really here. Bees are too heavy to fly, and nothing can defy entropy because laws that exists in one set of circumstances exists in all circumstances Which is why Newtonian physics operates so perfectly at the Quantum level, oh wait it doesn't. So entropy operates great at the inanimate object level, but not so great at the level of life forms and beings which are capable of perceiving and responding to changing circumstances in a variety of transformative, and/or mutational ways.
Science says that consciousness did not exist anywhere, and then by accident at some point in time it suddenly did. They're probably right, but what is consciousness. If it's an object, what is it made from. If it's a process, what does the process involve and is there a range that goes from .0001% to 100% conscious. If something reacts to the environment, and behaves in a way that is purposeful, is consciousness a result. If consciousness exists in only one form, and the form is a direct result of brain structures, what are the minimum number of brain structures necessary, what are the names of those structures, how do they function together, and why do they produce consciousness.
dna has chemicals that investigate and read the strands of dna for errors. The effective result is that defects are noticed and corrected . Does the dna helix itself possess a kind of pre-consciousness. It notices, it responds to, and behaves in a purposeful manner in order to maintain itself. Viruses and computers can do that too though, but we wouldn't say they're conscious. When we speak of consciousness we don't mean awareness, we mean awareness plus desires. Things that behave in a purposeful way yet have no ability to desire are not conscious. Buddhists would probably disagree.