Category: Theories

Part Two of a post I’d written earlier. Follows the invention of reproduction (asexual).

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Why sex was one of life’s greatest inventions.

1. Organisms (molecule systems, qv) were reproducing by fragmentation and continued survival.

2. The pieces that resulted could live, and found new ways of doing old things / new things to do.

3. Therefore, most new babies belonged to different groups, some closer to a few others in structure / mechanisms, and farther from others.

4. In another accident, two forms which were different came close and fused together when say, a wave hit them into togetherness.

5. The wall between them dissolved (?), and they became one system.

6. It was one hell of an uncomfortable situation. But they found they were having a lot of new things inside them (which actually has now become “it”). This was nature’s first act of sex. Divine. Beautiful.

7. It liked the new things. It was happier than the rest of the “singles.”

8. When this chimera fragmented into new babies, they lived better. They were the first family.

9. More and more of these sexual acts happened. More and more organisms found mates and had sex. They together became their own babies before they fragmented.

10. These sexual beings lived better.

Ergo, sex.

Ergo, improvement.

Ergo, diversity.

One of the few theories about life that I’ve been trying to write down over the past few months / years. Not as much a theory as a celebration of the beauties of life.

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Why reproduction was one of life’s greatest inventions:

1. There were a few molecules.

2. They reacted with one another, again and again, for millions of years.

3. They learnt to do things.

4. They were happy.

5. They learnt to do more things.

6. Not all of them stayed organised for long periods. Some of them got hit by waves / rocks / whatever, and disintegrated (read died), no longer able to “do things.” However, more accidents happened as time went by, and more molecule systems appeared.

7. One day, one of the molecule systems which could do things, accidentally broke in half (?).

8. At least one of the halves survived.

9. More of the pieces became larger, and more of them broke apart. More of them survived.

10. A group of molecule systems had found a new thing to do: be able to break apart and try to make the pieces continue “living.

11. These molecule systems were happier, for as the pieces grew larger, disintegration to oblivion was prevented by their own “break but preserve” mechanism.

12. These happier systems continued to live through their pieces.

13. The mechanisms of “doing things” did not have to be invented all over again each time by each new molecule system, as those that lived through fragmentation carried all / most of those mechanisms in them. So the ones that lived on now could concentrate on improvisation – finding newer things to do, and newer ways to do older things.

14. Some of these newer ways were better than the older ones. They lived longer and made more (successful and surviving) babies than the systems with the older ways of doing things.

Ergo, reproduction.

Ergo, selection.

Ergo, life.