An Accumulation of Errors
This week I read an article which described how Astronomers
at observatory high in the Andes had for the first time visualized with their
telescopes the clearest images yet available of the formation of a solar system
similar to our own. In this haunting image in concentric bands of blank space
are seen as the proto planets are caught in the act of clearing away from their
own region of space of the vast clouds of cosmic debris. It was in a manner
similar to this our own Earth came to be.
It had not always been so. Long ago in a relative instant
all that was to become the universe was set in motion by a singular chain of chaotic
events. In an incalculable release of energy one by one the laws of nature
unfolded from the singularity to form all that we know and see. Space itself from some infinitely small point expanded
into the void. To some it may seem that our existence from that point was merely
a matter of consequence. All however is not as it would seems for this planetary
system in which you and I exist is anomalous to the vast majority of this
violent and chaotic universe. There had been no uniform means of creation its
is by laughing chance that we find ourselves here on this island of relative
stability, by chance a kind of order had arisen and where the laws of nature
tend to make a kind of intuitive sense. Perhaps it is due to the favorable
nature that stability provides many a grand and mysterious set of circumstances
have since evolved. Chief among these of course, is life itself.
If we examine this
closely there we may be some comparative analogies drawn. Though life and
consciousness have for eons continually driven from chaos the creation of
temporary pockets of complexity these however hand remained in the context of
time as fleeting as a spark from a flame. From a perspective within the sphere
of influence of these sparks time is marked out in the scale to which we are
all familiar. Entire lives are lived and generations pass and our inheritance
like a string are drawn out from the past through the present into the future.
This inheritance being the sole survivor of this experience exists then
simultaneously in all three. The fire itself is order from disorder.
From this chaos here
in the relative calm of our stable celestial neighborhood a fragile balance has
then existed for eons. It is well known that in any sufficiently complex system
there the cumulative effects of entropy will over time become apparent. In respect to the human body it is through an
accumulation of errors in our genetic code where this tendency toward degradation
and our own individual mortalities are made evident.
It would seem logical that through the accumulation of these
errors that this process would in due course cause all to turn ultimately to
dust. However this has proven to not be the case for therein a contradiction exists.
During the duplication a genetic trait’s code an error on occasion will occur
during the process of transcription where in an advantage in survivability can
be bestowed into a line of inheritance.
Is it thereby through this accumulation of errors that both
dissolution and rebirth are mitigated? It
would seem that by these means that despite the obstacles that life muddles on
in an ever evolving pageant.
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