--- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote:
>
> Hi, Iain,
>
> You bet; and we should all be glad of that. Not only for you, but for
> ourselves.
Yes that is one mess I don't want to leave for others to clean uo.
>
> (BTW, the subject-line reads like a Vegan menu... !). ;-)
>
> I was just mentioning priority. Your post came out of the blue with a
> concern for priority or precedent of origin chickens or eggs, and got me
> thinking about a really ancient priority.
>
> One must still wonder about the predecessor(s) of the first single-celled
> organism(s), I think. "Wonder", in the sense of question and probe; and
> "wonder", in the sense of feel some amount and variety of "awe".
>
> Some thinkers suppose that biological life came from elsewhere, and seeded
> the earth, after the earth cooled from a sterilizing molten state following
> the giant collision which produced the Moon. But if we carry on thinking
> that, way we find an infinite regress. The question stands, then, about what
> ancestor the very first single celled organisms sprang from.
Iain replies:
What if we wonder about such matters because we simply have not recalled what
happened then within ourselves. What if DNA can store information and therefore
has memory and when an organism has an an "experience" the experience is stored
energetically within the DNA and these memories act like instincts within an
organism and condition it's behavioural responses?
If the earth was seeded with organic matter from meteorites and that eventually
became life, could that matter have held memories from the lifeforms it used to
be? Could the instinct to become cellular life have been inherited from another
planet. Could this help to explain why life appeared here so quickly.
That still leaves us looking for the genesis planet where it all began. But why
not another planet? Perhaps we are all recycled.
>
> If Mind is all there is, why did It want to give itself the sense of being
> embodied in something that we call physical form? (it may be that it's the
> neatest game in town).
The fire that burns but does not burn itself has no reason to fear itself. It
is content to be an expression of itself as fire.
Perhaps the void is having a clear out.
Hey Joe, Iain.
>
> Meanwhile, it's a wonder, in both senses, or more. ;-)
>
> --Joe
>
> > "iain" wrote:
> >
> > Yes, true Joe. Still I remain grateful that my organs are contained within
> > a skin bag or else they would spill out over the floor.
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote:
> > >
> > > Iain,
> > >
> > > I think we may be sure that the no-cell organism came before the
> > > single-cell organism, though, which is quite a wonder.
>
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