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The Microcosmos and Macro Cosmos.
To a certain extend I agree with the Martinus
cosmology
Humanity is on its way, according to Martinus,
towards an entirely new way of understanding the universe. This new understanding consists of the idea that the universe is built out of a manifold of living species within living species. The
Milky Way thus is a living being, that is a macro- cosmos for all the living beings of which it is composed, such as the solar system. The solar system with its many planets, is in its turn macro- cosmos for the earth, that again is macro- cosmos for humans, animals and plants. Successively this continues down to organs, cells and atoms from which each is built.
Microcosmos, mesocosmos and macrocosmos.
Driving force of life’s origins in terms of thermodynamics.
The Roots of Life. “Why did life emerge?”
I agree with Arto and Annila, Erkki.
As they
explain, all organisms are composed of molecules that assemble together via numerous chemical reactions. Just as heat flows
from hot to cold, these molecules obey the universal tendency to diminish energy differences, so that the most likely chemical
reactions are those in which energy flows “downhill” toward a stationary state, or chemical equilibrium.
Although the researchers don’t speculate on the specific
chemical reactions that created life, they explain that the molecules involved most likely underwent a series of more and
more complex reactions to minimize mutual energy differences between matter on Earth and with respect to high-energy radiation
from Sun. The process eventually advanced so far that it cumulated into such sophisticated functional structures that could
be called living.
“The
most important idea in our study is that there is no distinction between animate and inanimate,” “Processes of
life are, in their principles, no different from any other natural processes.”
Due to random variations stemming from the chemical reactions,
some novel compounds may have emerged in the primordial system. Some of these compounds (such as those involving carbon) might
have been exceptionally good at creating energy flow, enabling the system to diminish energy differences very efficiently
and reach a higher level of entropy.
“Today we may have only very little evidence left from the
courses in the very distant past to deduce which chemical species went extinct, while others, more viable in energy transduction,
emerged,” Arto Annila explained. In other words, this study focuses on why life emerged, not how.
The scientists give several examples of mechanisms associated with life that increase
entropy. For instance, when systems (e.g. molecules) become entities of larger systems (e.g. cells) that participate in larger
ranges of interactions to consume more free energy, entropy increases. Genetic code might have served as another primordial
mechanism, acting as a catalyst in replication that could increase energy flow toward greater entropy. Today,
complex organisms have cellular metabolism, which is another mechanism that increases entropy, as it disperses energy throughout
the organism and into the environment. The food chain in an ecosystem is another example of a mechanism for transferring energy
on a larger scale.
In this sense, life is a very natural thing, which
emerged simply to satisfy basic physical laws. Our “purpose,” so to speak, is to redistribute energy on the Earth,
which is in between a huge potential energy difference caused by the hot Sun and cold space. Organisms evolve via natural
selection, but at the most basic level, natural selection is driven by the same thermodynamic principle: increasing entropy
and decreasing energy differences. The natural processes from which life emerged, then, are the same processes that keep life
going – and they operate on all timescales.
“According
to thermodynamics, there was no striking moment or no single specific locus for life to originate, but the natural process
has been advancing by a long sequence of steps via numerous mechanisms so far reaching a specific meaning – life,”
And to arrive at a Intelegent Organism with reasoning power, took 5 Billion years of evolution “Indeed,
the quest for the origin of life seems a futile endeavor because life in its entirety is a natural process that has, according
to the second law of thermodynamics, no definite beginning,” he said. “To ask how life started would be the same
as to ask when and where did the first wind blow that quivered the surface of a warm pond.”
More information: Annila, Arto and Annila,
Erkki. “Why did life emerge?” International Journal of Astrobiology 7 (3 & 4 ): 293-300 (2008). Copyright 2008 PhysOrg.com.
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