Jul 22, 2013

The suicidal organism and the cells

A response to an article by Nilesh Chatterjee & Dharmendra Singh from http://essayist.in/2013/07/playing-hot-potato-with-mother-nature  also reproduced here as http://socialphysicsinstitute.blogspot.gr/2013/07/playing-hot-potato-pass-parcel-with.html


Through the training in the "individual sciences", medicine and psychology in specific, one may fail to see the forest past the trees.  This training focuses on the individual, its behavior, its development, its health, its illness, its death.  If humanity was viewed as an organism, we are unsure of when it was born/created/transformed, but it is an organism that has survived on earth for many long years, centuries, millenniums. Unlike some other organisms that were born and died, like the mammoth, the dinosaur, etc. (how is our Panda doing today? feeling a little dizzy? it must be a side effect of the life support system!), the human organism has grown, concurred, and dominated the earth and all other organisms, except a few, HIV for a example.

It may be close, or past the point of sustainable growth and domination and it will need to readopt to survive.  This can not be done by individual training, behavior modification, influence, sensitivity, or brutal force.  If it is done partially and not in totality it would be like cancer, where some cells seem to have different programming than the rest.  Cells are
born, live and die to maintain the organism.  They must have a common programming for the organism to survive.  Either an external force to the organism must alter its genetic encoding, or the organism must be forced to realize its discomfort, its pain, its  threat, and adopt to the environment to survive.  Unless, the majority of the cells can realize this urgent need, turn against the few cells and organs that drive the problem of maintaining humanity's path, and in an organized manner KILL or AMPUTATE the organs and cells that are not willing to adopt.


This, which ever may be, will have to be a natural process.  I would exclude the external force as a hoax by the dominating organs and cells that are not willing to adopt causing great pain and massive death to other cells and organs, and concentrate in the natural conditions that will leave no option but adoptation or death.  Or the organized uprising by the majority of cells, who are willing to adopt, against those cells and organs that are refusing to alter the course of the organism leading it to disaster.

The fear of death of the organism is a good motive for the cells to organize and turn against conservativism.  The only reason to conserve and preserve the past course of humanity is the denial of its path to destruction.  Darwin would say we are at the verge of a big step in evolution, and transformation to a whole new organism.  A form of re-evolution.  In a 100 years as projections show either there will be a whole new adopted humanity or there will be no humanity.  And with this I believe Spok (Star Trek) would agree and respond "this is perfectly logical".







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