Dr, EZ: Is "E" a GOLDFISH, an AMOEBA or a MAN?

Dr. EZ:

Is "E" a GOLDFISH, an AMOEBA or a MAN?

(aka Evolution)

Between fifty and seventy or so years ago Dr.EZ was

 a

microscopic organism

In fact sixty odd years ago Dr.EZ was just a single cell. During about 60 years of growth and development Dr.EZ transformed into

a

multicellular organism.

Dr.EZ says he is a man. But did Dr.EZ have to be a Homo Sapiens Man? Could Dr.EZ have been an AMOEBA or a GOLDFISH? Things could have turned out different for Dr.EZ if Dr.EZ's fish ancestor great-great-great-great. . . great grandmother "Martha" did not acquire and hand down land-living adaptive traits to her children, grandchildren and great-great-great-great. . . great grandchildren who are the ancestors of "E", otherwise Dr.EZ might have been a fish today. Dr.EZ might well have even been a goldfish today. Instead of being the cousin of"Nando-Homo-Sapiens-Man" Dr.EZ might have been the brother of that goldfish called "Nemo". One billion years ago Dr.EZ had a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great. . . great grandmother ("Tess"). Things could have turned out a little different today for Dr.EZ. If Tess, "The-Amoeba-Mom", did not hand down her fishy genetic traits to Martha, "The-Fish-out-of-Water", and her fishy descendants, Dr.EZ might not have been a man today. Dr.EZ's great-great-great-great. . . great
grandmother was an amoeba. Amoeba Bob's great-great-great-great-great-great-great_great. . . great grandmother was that same Amoeba Bob. Dr.EZ could have been a fully grown microscopic single cell organism today. Truth be told, Dr.EZ could easily have been an amoeba today. Instead of being "Nando-Man's cousin”, Dr.EZ might well have been the brother of "Amoeba Bob". 400 million years ago Dr.EZ had an ancestor with fins and gills. During 400 million years of growth and development (through a process called (“Evolution by Natural Selection") that fish left descendants that would transform their fins, tail and gills into hands, feet and air breathing lungs. These descendants of Martha began to walk upright and began to speak gibberish and gossip. Dr.EZ is the son of one of those gibberish gossipers.

Dr.EZ's great-great-great . . .great grandmother was a fish called "Wanda". Nemo The Gold fish's great-great-great-great . . .great grandmother was that same fish (Wanda). Dr.EZ and Nemo the goldfish share a common ancestor. 400 million years of accumulated adaptive genetic traits acquired while living on land were handed down from Dr.EZ's fishy-amphibian-mammalian-like great-great. . . great grandparents (Martha & Eduardo) to Dr.EZ. Dr.EZ, a walking talking soprano singing air breathing organism, is the result of the accumulation of 400 million years of land-loving genetic adaptive traits. The land-living-land-loving genetic information contained in Dr.EZ's DNA was collected over 400 million years by Dr.EZ's ancestors including Martha & Eduardo ("The Fishies"), and their amphibian, reptilian, mammalian and human descendants and was subsequently handed down to Dr.EZ. Lucky for Dr."E" things turned out the way it did. Things could have been quite different. If Dr.EZ were "EZ-The-Paramecium" (EZ-P), instead of "EZ-E-Soul-Man" (EZ-E), that Vancomycin antibiotic that almost killed "Betty-The-Bacterium" would surely have had near-fatal consequences for  EZ-P as well. When asked if he would go and trade places with "unicellular-EZ-P", the fully grown Gossiping-Bipedal-Tool-Using-Singing-And-Tap-Dancing "multicellular-EZ-E" shouted out "HELL NO!! HELL NO!! NOT IN A BILLION YEARS!! HELL NO!!"

  

Instead, “Dr-EZ-THE-HOMO-SAPIENS-MAN”, will hand down this One Billion year collection of amoeba, goldfish and Homo Sapiens adaptive genetic traits to his sons and daughters. Before passing along this acquired "Gene Set" from his parents to his sons and daughters, Dr.EZ may or may not contribute one or more of his own unique "Dr.EZ genes” to the collection. Dr.EZ's children in turn will hand down this collection of "Family Jewels" to Dr.EZ's 

grand and great grandchildren . . .

. . . And so it goes . . . .

Evolution by Artificial Selection

and Evolution by Natural Selection

(aka Breeding by Man

and Breeding by Mother Nature)

Evolution by Natural Selection is like dog or pigeon breeding. Dog Breeders who favor Marmaduke Giantism bred The Great Dane. Those breeders selecting for small sized dogs that can fit in a woman's small handbag  bred The Chihuahua. Man's breeding by "Artificial Selection" have evolved at most a few thousands breeds of animals, plants and vegetables. Mother Nature, with a head start of BILLIONS of years have Naturally Selected and bred many many millions of species.

Both Natural Selection by Mother Nature and Artificial Selection by Man use the same "animal breeding" Principle. This Principle is called The Evolutionary Algorithm of VARIATION, SELECTION and HEREDITY.

VARIATION: Many variations arise but both Man and Mother Nature have their preferences. Variations in dog sizes from very big body to tiny small body are available out there for a dog breeder ("Doggy Artificial  Selector") to mold into her preferred size. Small body and large body breeder preferences will Artificially Select (breed) Shih Tzus & Chihuahuas, and Saint Bernard & Great Danes respectively. Many species variations in choices of  breathing oxygen arise but Mother Nature's "Water-living Natural Breeders" choose gills for  ocean-living breathing while "Land-living-and-Air-living Natural Breeders" prefer  lungs for air breathing.

SELECTION: A wide range of dog type variations are available. "The Giantism Breeder Selection Environment" will choose The Rottweiler or The Bloodhound and reject The Poodle and The Mexican Lap Dog (which is extinct by the way) "The Toy Dog Breeder Selection Environment" will Artificially Select The Pug, Scottish Terrier & Fox Terrier and The Cocker Spaniel & The Springer Spaniel. Mother Nature has a huge and deep variation in bacteria and viruses in very many categories and in tens of thousands of species. “The Gram Positive Natural Selection Breeder Environments” will select E. Coli, Salmonella and Shigella. “The Anaerobic Natural Selection Breeder Environments” will select C. Diff, B. Pyogenes and A. Funkei. Man also unwittingly breed bacteria. The “Antibiotic Over Use Artificial Selector Environments” (for example hospitals) have evolved resistance strains of bacteria like MRSA and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus(VRE). Then there is The HIV-AIDS Virus. Man has thrown everything at HIV including the kitchen sink, but HIV keeps bobbing and weaving and evolving away by quickly selecting a variety of adaptive forms.  

HEREDITY; Like a son inheriting his dad's favorite Mustang, Heredity hands down the accumulating trait preferences for American Vintage Cars, and then dad's son passes the Mustang to dad's grandson,  or in the case of Mother Nature, Heredity passes down the accumulating Natural Vintage Flying Ability traits to her "Bird Kids, grandBumble Bees and great grandBats" from one Sparrow generation to the next Owl generation, to the next generation of flyers and so on.

Mother Nature prefers a Natural Selection breeding program for her species. Man favors Artificial Selection to breed his pets, farm animals, garden variety flowers, vegetables and  plants. However, both Man and Mother Nature apply the same principles of The Evolutionary Algorithm.  This Principle involves: 

VARIATION presenting a huge choice of random mutant genes to Selection, then

SELECTION  weeds out non-adaptive gene variants and chooses adaptive genetic improvements from among the huge mass of random gene mutations, then

HEREDITY  hands down the accumulating adaptive gene selections from one generation to the next generation.

The Biological Tree of Life grows branches and evolves as biological organisms accumulate improving adaptive traits.

  

God only knows why he put us on this tree, but this one Life-Tree on which humanity is a mere twig grows and develops by the process of Evolution by Natural Selection using the Principle of The Evolutionary Algorithm of Variation, Selection and Heredity…

. . .And so The Tree grows. . .

Spirit, Consciousness, Reality and The Persona of Consciousness

The spiritual world is the subjective world modeling the objective world. Spirit reflects reality like your daughter’s Doll House is a model of an actual real house. Spiritual Phenomena models Material Phenomena. The Spirit's Reality-Model contains three most important dimensions: (1) Consciousness, (2) The Persona of Consciousness and (3) Spiritual phenomena that models external objective and internal subjective phenomena of reality.

Consciousness is the screen within the spiritual landscape on which consciousness itself renders its modeling design of objective reality as well as its original imaginative subjective reality creations.

Consciousness witnesses, or observes, its designs but experiences its renderings through its many unique personas.

Like a member of the audience watching a performance, Consciousness witnesses, scrutinizes and enjoy the drama.

Like a character in a play, consciousness experiences the objective and subjective reality landscape through its Persona

The Persona is Consciousness experiencing reality. Consciousness is a part of the subjective spiritual world. Objectively, the spiritualized human being is a biological body that possesses self awareness, or consciousness.

Having consciousness gives a sentient biological being awareness and self awareness. All biological bodies are bodies existing in experiential reality. What makes a Homo Sapiens a special animal is that she is a human being living and experiencing life with exceptional self awareness. Few if any other animals possess very little of what could pass as conscious awareness and self awareness (it is believed that chimps, dolphins, whales and octopuses might possess a respectable amount of self awareness).

The Martine Persona is a consciousness "living life", sometimes lucidly and sometimes in a deep-sleep state. The Martine Persona is a human being who knows that she is a self aware biological body. If she is in a state of Gnosis, she knows she is a consciousness embedded in a human being. If she has little or no Gnosis she most likely is ignorant that she is not just a human being. She may not be aware that she is a conscious spirit embedded in a biological body. Just as an organism like a Falcon possesses unique flying organs called Wings and Feathers to fly, Homo sapiens possess specialized spirit organs call Consciousness, Persona and Mind that allow them to have flights of fancy, awareness, self awareness, understanding of their subjective and objective reality environments, the ability to reason, think and to have an idea as to what they are doing and why they do what they do. Except for Zombie humans, ordinary humans are one-of-a-kind sentient beings.

The Persona of Consciousness, Martine, may experience the play. Consciousness Itself may witness the play. It is impossible for Martine to sense (see, hear, feel, etc), image and/or imagine Consciousness in any (Earthly) way. Due to its intrinsic nature, a persona may only experience reality. Even though she may not experience Consciousness nor witness Consciousness, as Martine starts to "Know Herself" better, her intuitive wisdom imbues her with the knowledge (imbues her with Gnosis) that she is far more than "This Body"; through Gnosis she will know, sooner or later, that she is Consciousness.



One school of thought, mostly some philosophers, would insist Martine is a Persona of Consciousness. Consciousness models a Persona when Consciousness chooses to experience reality. This means reality is a part of Consciousness. Consciousness creates reality and creates personas of itself in order to explore and experience reality that is contained within Consciousness Itself.

Another school of thought, Cosmologists mainly, would strongly disagree. They argue that the evidence of the Big Bang Evolution of The Universe coupled with the evolution of our Darwinian Tree of Life is overwhelming. This overwhelming evidence has convinced them that spiritual reality is an emergent phenomenon of developing evolving material reality. For Cosmologists and Evolutionists, The Human Spirit is an organ of survival adaptation that our particular life form has evolved to better succeed at living just like we evolved arms, legs, an upright way of walking and lungs in order to better adapt and survive in a land-living environment. 

Then you have the Gnostic Philosophy school of thought with the unique perspective that 
there exist, 

"Out There" 

a physical Landscape Reality with living animals, plants and physical bodies including humans. However, they insist that what we perceive as "The Real World" that we call Reality is not the real world at all, it is merely a model representation within the screen of an individual's Conscious Awareness! The Gnostic contend the real physical world cannot be directly perceived.

The Colorful, Sound-filled, Tasty, Smelly and Touchy-Feely world we are experiencing only exists within an individual's consciousness.

Within the real external world there is no Color, no Ringing Sounds, Smells, Taste or Touch Sensation "Out There"

Just like your daughters Barbie & Ken Doll House is a model of a real house, the "reality" you "see" presented to you is a model representation on the screen of Consciousness. The 'stuff' of Subjective and Objective phenomena can be very different; opposites, in fact. One is Spiritual in essence and the other is Physical/Material 'stuff'. The form of an objective phenomenon and its reflection, (subjective phenomenon) may be similar and close to being the same in appearance.


The appearance of the Subjective model on consciousness's screen may be the same as "The Real(objective) Thing" in the external world. That is, Conscious Awareness, intelligence and the intellect can capture the laws governing the experiences of Objective Existence.

Without Conscious Awareness in you, the individual, there are no Colorful Images, Sound Explosions, Bitter, Sweet or Sour Taste, Smell or Feel.

"SOUND" 

Is one of the 'paint-sensations' splashed upon the screen of consciousness by the individual's Consciousness Itself (there is no 'Sound' out there). The landscape surrounding you on all sides with you in the center of it all is a landscape representation of external Reality with a human being a part of it. The external world is not a composite of 'color', 'Sound', etc. These subjective phenomena do not exist in the external world (outside of consciousness).

The Subjective Model of The Self Aware Conscious Persona lying in a meadow displayed on the screen of consciousness, is a true reflection in mind of the real starry heavens "Out There" 


The fact of the matter is, Conscious Awareness is the real you. The fact of the matter is, you, Conscious Awareness, are not directly experiencing External Reality. Martine is Consciousness's Persona experiencing the real landscape indirectly through The Landscape displayed on the screen of consciousness.

The Gnostic Philosopher reiterates:

"The fact of the matter is, the individual's Conscious Awareness focuses Its Martine Persona's experiences in the objective real world by displaying it on a subjective screen of Consciousness.

"It is true:

IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST AND THERE IS NO CONSCIOUSNESS TO HEAR IT,  IT CANNOT MAKE ANY SOUND WHATSOEVER"

Some philosophers would go along with a group of some Superstring physicists that an unreasonable amount of "fine tuning" of the laws of The Universe is required to make The Universe life friendly and livable for us. They insist there are just too many unlikely coincidences too perfectly lined up without some "Intelligence" being responsible.

Within the scientific and philosophic communities, the jury is still out. M-theory String Theorists, Cosmologists, Superstring Theorists and Quantum Mechanics physicists say we need to collect a lot more evidence a while longer to convince us one way or the other. The Religious Community says it is "No secret. God is the Divine 'Secret Sauce' that makes The Universe perfect for life"

I pray we get some answers soon. Stay (finely) tuned. . .