Yep, and all that information is processed and transported from cell to cell by microtubules in the cytoplasm and cytoskeleton and over long distances to the brain via the microtubules that make up the body’s neural network.
You seem to forget that microtubules do make a distinction between the variety of cell configurations, else they could not make exact copies of cells during mitosis.
You’re missing time and cumulative change turning into evolving creatures
that react to their environments and change with the generations, as a dynamic Earth constantly changing sometimes slowly, other times breathtakingly fast.
What do you think is processing all that information?
You’re still not accepting that the microtubule network between cytoplasm. cytoskeleton, neural network, and brain are what make the organism into what it is.
The rest of the information sharing is performed biochemically, like the bonding of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, … etc.
Your microtubules don’t have a soul.
Living creatures have souls, or . . . perhaps you’d find a way to deny that.
(Soul, as in a self-aware life force, not something that lives forever after you die. )
I see the “soul” as an emergent dynamic process that is generated by the natural chemical reactions that create a dynamic flow of cellular information, via microtubules.
Does a rock have a soul? No, it does not strive to stay alive. It has no microtubules.
Does a single-celled paramecium have a soul? Yes, it strives to stay alive. It has microtubules.
You need to understand that all biochemical data exchange at the physical level is facilitated by microtubules. Once you accept that fact all woo woo mystery goes away.
The Earth Centrist’s perspective acknowledges Earth, her material constituents and physical processes, unfolding one day at a time, as our fundamental touchstone with reality. We acknowledge Earth and glory in understanding her pageant of Evolution and appreciating how that pageant is reflected within our own bodies and minds.
Yes, but that doesn’t tell us “how”. This is pure philosophy.
We celebrate the physical fact that humans were created out of Earth’s evolving biosphere.
Yes, along with everything else in earth’s biosphere.
Science shows us that we belong to the nurturing mammalian branch of one of Earth’s amazing animal kingdoms. Yet, it’s undeniable that something quite unique happened around six million years ago when certain apes took a wild improbable evolutionary turn.
Yes, I explained the chromosome fusion event that must have been responsible.
More remarkable is the fact that it was a lucky error made by microtubules in copying DNA during mitosis. We may thank the microtubules for that extremely rare beneficial fusion. Most mitotic errors are detrimental and fall victim to natural selection.
By and by, besides the marvel of our two hands, we developed two feet and legs, that could stand tall and run for hours, combined with keen eyes and a growing brain that learned rapidly and remembered.
Physically we are by no means extraordinary. Many animals can outperform us in specialized survival techniques.
During this period our brain physically morphed in some significant ways that enabled it to host a profound leap in cognitive information processing, storage and retrieval ability. On the outside hominids learned to make tools, hunt, fish, and select plants, plus they mastered fire for cooking and better living.
Yes, the new much larger chromosome 2 in humans created a longer and more complex brain cell growth instruction as is evident by the enormous quantity of microtubules that make up the brain’s neural network.
On the inside our brains were growing and benefiting from the new super nourishment while human curiosity and adventures started filling and stretching our Mindscapes with experiences, questions, and knowledge beyond anything the “natural” physical Earth ever knew.
Yes, all facilitated by the microtubule network!
By Mindscape, I mean the product of all that our body/brain perceives and processes, which of course, evolutionarily speaking, was dependent on our brain’s hardware keeping pace with and driving the ever-increasing volume of information and thoughts.
YES! The brain’s hardware consists of microtubules! They allow for the ever-increasing volume of information, thoughts and memories!
While the human mind and spirit seem ineffable mysteries, they are also of tremendous consequence and real-world physical power. They drove our growing ability to study and manipulate our world; to communicate and record our experiences; and to formulate explanations for a world full of mysteries, threats, wonders and dreams.
All living organisms are driven by the same autonomous biochemical reactive processes. Can you stop the oxidation and rusting of iron? That is the life force at work.
Unfortunately iron cannot replace its lost molecules. Biochemical organisms can use available energy sources to replenish and regenerate lost cells.
Just look at seasonal replacement of leaves on trees. How incredible is that enormous growth potential and the energy it requires.
It is said that a single almond requires 1 gallon of water (+ nutrients) to grow and mature.
People learned to think and gossip and paint pictures upon the canvas of cave walls, and even better, upon the canvas of each other’s imaginations. We’ve been adding to our mind’s awareness and complexity ever since.
Yes, there seems to be no limit to the information processing of microtubules.
Of course, while all this was going on our extraordinary human mind was also beginning to wonder about the ‘Why’ of the world it observed and the difficult, fragile, short lives we were allotted.
As Ricky Gervais says; “the why is unimportant. It’s the how that is useful knowledge.”
In seeking comfort and answers to unknowable questions it seems inevitable that Gods would inhabit our Mindscape. I suspect inspired by buried memories of being coddled within mom’s protective loving bosom those first couple years of life.
WOW, that is a fatalistic outlook. The only unknowable question is a useless “why”, not the useful “how”.
No doubt these “Gods” enabled further successes, though not through supernatural interventions, but rather through their ability to form, conform, reform & transform the Mindscapes of the people beginning to congregate. Thus, combining pragmatic civil societal needs with universally felt, but keenly personal questions, fears, and dreams.
During the middle ages tribal stories, accepted ancient doctrines, and religious “truths” were no longer enough to satisfy our Mindscape’s growing desire for ever better understanding and power over our destinies and the biosphere that sustains us.
Exactly, we shifted our question from “why” to “how” and science was born.
The human mind took another tremendous leap forward in awareness with the Intellectual Enlightenment and the birth of serious disciplined scientific study. Science’s success was dazzling in its ability to learn about, control and manipulate Earth’s physical resources and to transform entire environments.
Exactly, but what we have yet to learn is that our manipulations are not always conducive to what the earth requires for its natural homeostatic processes.
The earth sequestered (buried) billions of years of CO2 underground where it fed all flora, which then released oxygen into the atmosphere and provided the surface life with life-giving oxygen.
Until man came along and in 350 years pumped 1/2 of this sequestered CO2 (oil) from the ground and back into the atmosphere, where it is clearly beginning to disturb the natural dynamic balance in many ways.
The double-edged sword of a god-like creative mind is not always beneficial to the grander scheme of Nature’s life force “striving to maintain balance among interactive forces”.