Germaine Malcolm
Campeador De Astrum, Servo Semper Germanitas.
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Existence?
What is Life?
At school we are all taught some form of the seven characteristics of life.
I was taught with an acronym MRS. NERG.
(There is another more complex set. If you know it, please humbly follow along with those)
Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction and Growth.
Science reduces all of these characteristics into factors that apply only to life on earth.
What is evoloution?
Evolution can be said to be a process that creates increasing complexity from a decreasingly chaotic environment.
The universe is the ultimate chaotic environment. In order to create order from this chaos it would be necessary to create separation. Take any chaotic system. Set up a boundary inside that system sectioning of a smaller self-contained system. When separated from the surrounding chaos an oasis is created.
Inside this oasis stabilisation is now allowed to occur. Think of a chaotic zombie filled earth. And a secure walled off compound for humans to live. Or a chaos of neutrons, protons and electrons. And then wall them off with the electrons so there is now stability.
Or a sea of biological components. Swimming in a primordial soup. And a membrane forming to protect a select few within to, against the destructive chaos on the without. You now have a cell.
Within these cells the combined components and all their energies now also have an opportunity to stabilise. Now that they can stabilise they are able to reserve energy that would usullaly be used to survive the seas of chaos.
As we all know energy cannot be destroyed. This means this latent energy can then be used, in some cases, to prosper, now they are not being used for survival. This latent prosperous energy is used to create constructive complexity within the cell. Over time some of this complexity becomes advantageous. The cell learns communicate with its chaotic environment in inventive ways.
Why Communicate with a Chaotic Environment?
Now the cell has its boundary it needs to be able to become sensitive to and communicative with the chaotic environment. Why? Because its environment may contain nutrients, opportunities for growth, other cells and is an ideal place to excrete.
The best way to communicate with the maximum amount of the chaotic environment is of course to move in it. Communication includes Movement. An interactive communcation with the environment using a combination of it and the cell.
This communication includes Respiration and Nutrition. Both forms of taking something from a chaotic environment to use for energy.This communication includes excretion. Consider it verbal diarrhea.
This communication includes Growth. Transferring chaotic pieces without, into the peace within. This communication also includes Reproduction. Communicating with other cells and/or the environment to grow something similar but new to your own cell.
This communication is simply Sensitivity. Enough Sensitivity to obtain and create all that is needed by communicating with the chaos.
Through this sensitive communication we have enfolded all of characteristics of life.
Therefore, the only real characteristic of life is sensitivity through communication.
Communication with those in the community. And more importantly communication with those stuck in the chaotic environment.
What? ....Communication. A Common Unification. How? ...A Community. With Common Unity.
The Meaning of it All?
Does this mean that I'm suggesting we have meaning of life?
Nope I'm just a Mad Man living in a chaotic world trying to communicate what I'm thinking and feeling.
To a global community that has evolved from a chaotic environment.
The future is ours. Now is the time. And Chaos Reigns. Supreme.
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Not Writing = Not Sleeping?
That's what I think about my last post on this blah-blah-Blog.
Have I written much? No.
The Good News is that I've become a whole lot more creative.
The Bad News is now I can't sleep like I used to.
I have written a piano piece.
But I haven't actually written any notation. Only created it.
I've clicked into place a whole different way of viewing the world around us.
Of what has been and will be.
The creation of life , of a universe, of an idea.
(I sound psychologically unstable)
But I can't explain it coherently to anyone.
Is this because I'm a Mad Man.
Yes.
Because I have a head full of beautiful, creativity.
And I am doing nothing.
Or is that the The Nagging Voice of Success?
Because I have started writing.
And I have started something.
But What?
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Why Write?
Why Write?
It's a good question, for me.
Why? I want to write, and do so many other things, but I don't.
I figure when you want to do something, and will not do it, you should figure out why you want to do it in the first place.
After asking myself repeatedly we I don't write, I have come full circle.
Still not writing.
But I've never experimented with asking why I want to.
Easy answers come and go. But I can hear the words of Charles Wright maintaining as a strong theme. Express Yourself. Expression is the drive, the desire, the longing that holds us. Life can be long, and hard, and mundane sometimes. A constant rise and fall of emotions, health, wealth, relationships and success. Even knowing that it is all just the process of progress can't cheer you up.
In this day and age it can be difficult to be original. We are bombarded with sameness everyday. Yet there are times when we are able to feel ignited by what we are expressing, we have an accomplish originality. This is why, for me, I should write. Write tweets, posts, status updates,text messages,letters, poems, songs and blogs. Maybe even a book?
What's the point of all this? What have I learnt? Instead of asking why we do not or will not or can not do what we want. We could just ask why we want to.