Sparks

Nature’s design for evolution requires death as a necessary step. Without death, species cannot currently evolve.

We keep trying to live forever – Are we done evolving?

DNA = Stateless

DNA + Brain = Stateful

To the detriment of our future, we humans are inherently selfish and shortsighted.

This is not to say that there are not those among us who are, in fact, selfless and with great regard for our future. They are just scarce and increasingly ineffective in a rapidly overpopulated world.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/fiber-optic-wires-servers-and-more-than-550000-miles-of-underwater-cables-heres-what-the-internet-actually-looks-like/ar-AAyqh6L?ocid=sf

It seems the size of the cables (actual fiber), astounding as they are for the amount of data transmitted through them, are a good metaphor for our social connectedness. Millimeter thick.

When an entity deprives another entity, other than the perpetrator, of their time intentionally or through callous discourtesy.

This appears to be the definition of courtesy most people are familiar with: “supplied free of charge to people who are already paying for another service.” (Google search). As in, “courtesy shuttle” or “courtesy vehicle”. Another, seemingly lost, definition of the word is: “the showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior toward others.” (Google search). It seems, like many other virtues such as accountability, responsibility and integrity, courtesy is an aspect of civilized humanity lost to the numbers.

I recall a principal at my grade school espousing the 3 C’s: Courtesy, Curiosity and Creativity. These were promoted for children but they all apply to adult and should be augmented by things like accountability, responsibility and integrity. All too often, these seem to be forgotten qualities and concepts. At least, they seem to have lost their meaning.

Whether you realize it or not, your mind’s eye charts a course for you. It’s not a point for point, stop for stop course like your GPS might provide you on a trip. It’s more like a “as the crow flies” course. Goes around mountains and tall building but right over a house or a tree. In order for this third eye to chart this course, you have to have an idea of where you want to go. Without that crucial bit of information, all the information and knowledge your brain might posses may not be any help in getting you to where you want to be.

From ganglion to grey matter, the human brain has had quite a journey of development and evolution. As with a computer, the newer/advanced layers depend on accessing the functionality of the layers below. Unlike a computer, each layer has it’s demands – and sometimes that which the lower layer wants can only be delivered by actions accomplished by the layer above.

What does a layer of brain want besides the basic needs of a cell? Specific chemicals it would seem. Besides sustenance (energy), it seems chemicals are the driving force for a brain’s existence.  I really don’t know how the brain’s cells develop a craving for these chemicals or what positive results these chemicals have on the cells. When you develop a craving for that favorite icecream a chemical grant sequence has been setup (a contract). There is an agreement setup between the layers of the brain. They work in collaboration to achieve this goal and the accomplishment of this results in chemicals (dopamines for example) being released to sate the layer that sets up the contract to start. Each layer benefits in some form (how?).

Everything we know is built on something that became known before it. Sparks lead to fires.

Everything seems to work this way – fashion, science, technology, art, you name it. You conceive of something, an idea, a technique, a process whatever it might be, and then it gets used to create something new and so the spiral continues. If it was a trend, it will come back in a new form.