Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Lunacy of Hope




As far as is known to us on our planet that we call Earth, humans are the only surviving creatures in which Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has gone awry; actually, we came into being by the only known aberrant DNA, and therefore exponentially proceeded towards going beyond the rudimentary and up to the time, the only purpose that it came about with, and formed the first microcosm of life.

That purpose for billions of years remained Survival, and nothing else, period. Survival entailed, as a natural selection but in a strictly limited way, foraging and reproducing. Consciousness of being was not inclusive.

In our altered DNA, before it proliferated and became manifest in countless manner, form, imagery, articulation, malice, pre-meditation, invention, etc., the first thing that happened was that it brought consciousness into our being: we became aware, and quickly proceeded to name ourselves, and things living and non-living that we could hear, see, and palpate, creating language and articulation.

We are the only creatures who know that they are born, that they exist, and that they will die. This is the simplest form of what we mean by consciousness. Then we began to make tools, the most crucial and dangerous of which was imagination, by its own definition unceasing and infinite.

The scope of our DNA just had no limit, even if it meant, at some point, that it may cause its own obliteration, and with it, perhaps, the expiration of all forms of DNA and, in other words, life.

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Charu wrote:
Bhai,

Annihilation of life is imminent

It is slightly remote if the source of disaster is unman- made like a giant asteroid nudging and hurling the earth out of orbit and on into oblivion; or our life-giving sun exploding into a super nova and incinerating all in its vicinity including earth or the earth churning up its innards to cause a polar shift. 

DNA has no hand in any of these events but indeed has in that a brain of science will learn, understand, explain and ultimately seek refuge from these events to survive.

Of quite the closer imminence are the disasters that are of man made nature. Rampant re-productivity, excessive stripping of earth's generosity, extreme religiosity and utter and un-replenishable bankruptcies at ethical fronts, collectively will bring about the annihilation. The gears are locked and events are in motion; earth opening up to swallow or ocean whipping up to engulf are some of the disasters in this category

DNA has a big hand in these. DNA that allowed us consciousness also granted us, by extension, the sense of one-upmanship; a sense of individual profit over collective loss. There is no stemming the flow now.

Perhaps, DNA is programmed so that evil triumphs over good; sort of as you say "evil finding its own level".

I spot a blurry moon; I see the tracings of double-helix strand in your picture; a ladder to self-destruction already built in the DNA structure. Telling.
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Preeth Parthasarathy wrote: ""We never see in consciousness that the mind is like an ecosystem - a self-corrective network of circuits. We only see arcs of these circuits.

And the instinctive vulgarity of scientists consists precisely in mistaking these arcs for the larger truth, i.e., thinking that because what is seen by consciousness has one character, the total mind must have the same character.

Freud’s personified ‘ego’, ‘id’, ‘super-ego’ are, in fact not, truly personified at all. Each of his components is constructed in the image of only consciousness (even though the component may be unconscious) and the ‘consciousness’ does not resemble a total person. The isolated consciousness is necessarily depersonified.

The whole iceberg does not have those characteristics which could be guessed at from looking only at what is above water. I mean: the iceberg does - mind does not. Mind is not like an iceberg.

But the vulgar scientist talks and plans as if mind resembled iceberg. He plans and acts upon his plans. Invents atom bombs and feels hurt when a beneficient deity screws up international relations and sends fall-out.""



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bhai,

Annihilation of life is imminent

It is slightly remote if the source of disaster is unman- made like a giant asteroid nudging and hurling the earth out of orbit and on into oblivion; or our life-giving sun exploding into a super nova and incinerating all in its vicinity including earth or the earth churning up its innards to cause a polar shift.

DNA has no hand in any of these events but indeed has in that a brain of science will learn, understand, explain and ultimately seek refuge from these events to survive.

Of quite the closer imminence are the disasters that are of man made nature. Rampant re-productivity, excessive stripping of earth's generosity, extreme religiosity and utter and un-replenishable bankruptcies at ethical fronts, collectively will bring about the annihilation. The gears are locked and events are in motion; earth opening up to swallow or ocean whipping up to engulf are some of the disasters in this category

DNA has a big hand in these. DNA that allowed us consciousness also granted us, by extension, the sense of one-upmanship; a sense of individual profit over collective loss. There is no stemming the flow now.

Perhaps, DNA is programmed so that evil triumphs over good; sort of as you say "evil finding its own level".

I spot a blurry moon; I see the tracing of double-helix strand in your picture; a ladder to self-destruction. Telling.

charu

Anonymous said...

Bhai,

I want to rewrite the last para.

I spot a blurry moon; I see the tracings of double-helix strand in your picture; a ladder to self-destruction already built in the DNA structure. Telling.

Ramesh Gandhi said...

It is an exquisite line, Charu. Brilliant. Congratulations.
Bhai