If cells were only relying on biochemical reactions to do something, then whenever a certain condition would appear, the cells would react the exact same way every time. But that's not what happens! The cells get used to nuisance stimuli, like we get used to police sirens, and react weaker or less frequently. To put it simply, the cells learn to ignore stuff just like we do. Which should be impossible if they only reacted chemically - the same thing would cause the same reaction. This experiment proves that thinking happens on molecular level! https://scitechdaily.com/single-cells-can-learn-a-revolutionary-discovery-in-biology/
Church of Eternal Mind
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Friday, April 15, 2022
Root of all evil in humans
If myths reflect reality in any way, then, starting at the very beginning, let's look at the Garden of Eden story. Adam and Eve must have lived in the garden for quite a long time without any issues. Then they get tempted and get kicked out. Firstly, who really tempted them? I think, God is the one who did that by pointing out an apple tree that they had no difficulty ignoring before. Everyone knows that kids are tempted by stuff they are told not to do, and weren't Adam and Eve basically kids in their mentality back then? And if God gave humans free will, then is it right to punish them for exercising it? And do you really have free will if you are threatened with punishment? God is using some double standards here. (Like when you are told, your body is your temple and you are in charge of it, but if you don't get a covid vaccine you'll lose your job, lose your house, become homeless and live in a tent.) Therefore distrust of authority and disobedience are in our genes, according to this myth.
Everyone agrees that if humans weren't so competitive and greedy the world would be a better place. Looking back to mythology, how did all that get started? By a contest between Cain and Abel. God encouraged them to prepare a meal, to compete with each other, and that caused the fight between the brothers, who lived happily and loved each other until God introduced competition. And then, instead of smiting Cain, whereby fixing the mistake, as would have been the right thing to do, God lets him go free to promote contests and teach the winning mindset. I bet all the rich capitalists and politicians are descendants of Cain. Definitely Putin, he must have a lot of Cain's genes. So we can blame God for inequities and the wars.
Looking at those two myths which were supposedly the foundation of human morality it looks as if God was responsible for making us such evil bastards.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Your plants, your pets, even your food are reading your mind at all times
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Is consciousness inside or outside?
1 - consciousness evolved along with life and needs living matter to function.
2 - consciousness is a property of all matter, existing in all particles.
3 - consciousness is a property of only certain particle.
4 - consciousness exists outside of matter, sort of like light, and when it encounters matter it illuminates it, as well as uses it and manipulates it to suit it's purposes.
The simple single celled organisms divide. Assuming, a cell has a tiny soul, as it divides, the soul would either have to divide or to expand to envelope both cells. It appears to expand, because individual cells seem to know exactly what to do for the communal good. The amoebas, for instance, are able to gather together, to form a slug, and to crawl to another location, which would have been impossible for individual amoebas to do. The combined mind of the colony is able to communicate to each amoeba and to instruct it. Each amoeba is pretty stupid, it probably has an intelligence of a grain of sand. But a community of amoebas act much more intelligent than a pile of sand. The saying, "a whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" comes to mind. Just think: even if there was some sort of an instinct driving the amoebas to form a lump, how would each individual know where the gathering place is? And then how would each amoeba know in which direction to go? If they don't all move together as one the slug would fall apart. Then the amoebas specialize: some of them become the stem, and some the fruiting body that will produce seeds which will fly away in search of new places to live. I suppose, as life evolved, some communities of cells chose to stay together, attached for good, forming animals with bodies able to move much faster and further than slugs, as well as hunt.
Did consciousness originate in a cell, or a community of cells, or was it present already in amino acids, DNA chains, water molecules?
This might seem weird, but there was an experiment done with pinball machines back in the 70's which showed that the outcome was slightly influenced by the mind of the observer. To me it means a couple of things: that the mind of a living being extends way outside of that individual's body; and, possibly, that the so-called inanimate matter has to have some consciousness in order to react to the mind of an experimenter.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Science proves that plants have a mind
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Shapeshifters could be walking among us
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why make them in your image?
Genesis: 3, 5, 6: Events leading up to the flood
Saturday, January 26, 2013
GENESIS agrees with Big Bang theory: Chapter 1:
After the Big Bang in place of planets there was a huge cloud of atoms of helium and hydrogen floating around in the deep endless darkness of the void.
I find this detail interesting: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
After some considerable time the atoms of helium and hydrogen clumped together making carbon, oxygen, and water molecules. Water was the first visible substance to form. Why is it saying specifically that the Spirit of God moved on the water, and not in the "darkness of the deep" as well? Does the Spirit of God need water molecules specifically, or would hydrogen atoms be sufficient to support its presence?
Thursday, September 27, 2012
First intelligent life on Earh
Monday, August 20, 2012
Does your religion of choice discount life experience?
Monday, February 13, 2012
The first thought and the intelligence (god) particle
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Intelligence of water and non-living matter
Smart slime
Physarum polycephalum
a single-celled critter that should be as dumb as slime on the bathtub, because that's all it is - a slime, can navigate through mazes better than a rat on steroids; it always finds the shortest and the fastest way to the food.Is there animate and inanimate matter or are they the same?
Do you need a brain to think?
Did humans really evolve from monkeys?
My definition of intelligence
I had a cat years ago, who figured out all by herself how to play fetch.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
How intelligent is a single cell?
Friday, February 10, 2012
Is theory of evolution right or wrong?
The theory of evolution can't be applied to anything smaller than a virus. Can you apply it to life just below the conventionally accepted threshold of life? Can you apply it to, say, water, air, and other supposedly non-living matter?
I propose an extension to Darwin's theory of evolution. Call it a theory of pre-evolution. After all, in the beginning was nothing but clouds of helium and hydrogen, which compressed into different heavier molecules and made the world we live in. And those heavier molecules formed amino acids - the building blocks of life, we call them. But weren't the real building blocks atoms of hydrogen? And what sort of evolution caused hydrogen atoms to form life?