OK, when last seen, I ask a simply question,
as individual atoms, what is next?
But let us understand how we connect as individual atoms.
We know that in the beginning, the big bang, that the universe
was a random series of atoms. What connected them was a force,
that force, we call Gravity. The begining of the collection of matter, or
thought of another way, the unification of atoms, into matter that we now
call stars, planets, galaxies, space/time, all began because of gravity.
So, today we exist as a collection of individual atoms, we call cells.
this collection of billions and trillions and whatever is the next largest
number called, how did that collection of cells become, the human being?
We call this evolution. So matter began to collect as a response to Gravity
and became planets and stars and galaxies. We responded to Gravity in the same
way and we began to collect as individual atoms. Then after billions of years,
we began to be life, as we know it today. The path to the human being began
with the collection of random cells that, for whatever reason, became life.
Just as the organizing principle of matter is gravity, the organizing principle
of life is evolution. And as it does with Gravity, evolution goes from the small
and simple to the large and complex. We are not the last stage of evolution,
we are simply what has come to now and after us, life will continue, by
using such organizing principles of evolution and gravity, to continue to
build and create life into a collection of individual atoms. The next super power
of life on earth after the disappearance of human beings, may well be the
common dog or rats or alligators or some other random collection of individual
atoms that, by evolutionary means rise to the top of the food chain.
Life is created by some means we don’t yet understand, and frankly it doesn’t matter,
but life is maintain by evolution……. we are individual atoms that has our organizing
principles as evolution. We exist as a collection of individual atoms just as the sun
and planets and galaxies are a collection of individual atoms and they are organized
by gravity. So as we are created by the “laws” of evolution, we must organize
in a certain fashion. We are social creatures, we must congregate together,
we human beings and this is because that is how evolution created us.
The rules, think of evolution as rules, and we humans must obey the rules.
And part of the rules for human beings is we must be social. That is inborn
within us as part of the rules for being human. So as individual atoms,
part of the rules for us individual atoms is we must congregate together
and so the social order of families and towns and cities and social organizations
like government and culture and ism’s and ideologies like communism and democracy
exist because of the rules of evolution which demands, yep, demands
that we socialize together and exist together and live together. So this is why
as individual atoms, we tend to congregate into social structures like families
and groups. But we have freedom and part of that freedom is to associate
or as the case maybe, disassociate ourselves from a particular social order
such as a family or group or ism or ideology. Now seen this way, the real
path of freedom claimed by many is really just our ability to associate
or dissociate from any social structure. We have the right as given
by evolution, to dissent from and disagree with any social structure
that we, as individual atoms, agree with or disagree with.
We are determined by such factors as being inborn with certain
evolutionary forces such as the need to survive and the need to
be social. This need to survive is strong in all evolutionary/biology
structures we call animals or living beings such as fish and plants
and algae… That is the inbred function of evolution, to create
certain conditions of individual atoms, of which the will to survive
is strong. We as a collection of individual atoms, living in a universe
of collected atoms, both big and small, and the biological atoms
have as part of their code, the need to survive… for that is written
within atoms by evolution, the need to survive. Recall that a cell,
a single, individual cell has as it basis, the coding written into
it by the force of evolution and we know that code as DNA and RNA.
That is the code that billions of years of evolution has written
into all biological cells………
We cannot, as of yet, override those codes, but that is part of what
we are doing with our work with genetics and the study of genes and
heredity in living organisms. Seeing how evolution has wired us
as biological beings with DNA and RNA. So within us, as part of our
individual cells, is the coding of evolution and as we are also
part of that coding, we exist as being coded by evolution and
all life is by being life, coded by evolution. So as gravity has
organized matter into such things as stars and planets and galaxies,
evolution has organized matter into biological/coded individual
atoms which given enough time become more and more complicate
and eventually turning into us, not the final chapter of evolution, simple
the next chapter of evolution and after us, will come another chapter
and another and another. Life goes on…… with or without us.
With this in mind, what is next?
Kropotkin