It can be hard to dispute the common adage ‘survival of the fittest’. After all, ‘most of the genes in the genome are there because they’re doing something good,’ says a researcher. But, she says, ‘others are just there because they’ve figured out a way to be there.’ (1)
We tend to find reasons for everything there is.
But what is that is not true?
What if there are no reasons?
What if nothing is happening due to something else?
In a cosmos without causality.
In a world without logic.
There would be no need to justify the existence of genes.
It can be hard to dispute the common adage ‘survival of the fittest’. After all, ‘most of the genes in the genome are there because they’re doing something good,’ says a researcher. But, she says, ‘others are just there because they’ve figured out a way to be there.’ (1)
We tend to find reasons for everything there is.
But what is that is not true?
What if there are no reasons?
What if nothing is happening due to something else?
In a cosmos without causality.
In a world without logic.
There would be no need to justify the existence of genes.
Brain activity has an unmistakable signature: the firing of neurons, as brain cells relay information to one another through the triggered release of chemical neurotransmitters, which are received by the long, branching dendrites of neighbouring cells.
This microscopic ritual is distinctive, but it doesn’t belong only to neurons. Scientists have now found bursts of neuron-like activity in certain skin cells. (1)
The left and right side of the brain are involved in different tasks. This functional lateralization and associated brain asymmetry are well documented in humans, but little is known about brain asymmetry in our closest living relatives, the great apes. Using endocasts (imprints of the brain on cranial bones), scientists now challenge the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique. They found the same asymmetry pattern in chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. However, humans were the most variable in this pattern. This suggests that lateralized, uniquely human cognitive abilities, such as language, evolved by adapting a presumably ancestral asymmetry pattern. (1)
The universe is symmetrical. Or so we think it should be. But why think something like that in the first place? Is it that symmetry is beautiful and we are naturally inclined towards admiring beautiful? Could it be that symmetry of also an inherent part of our nature and, this, we tend to adhere to theories which include it?
Our brain is asymmetrical. Or so we think because we see differences in our two hemispheres in our brain. But why think that in the first place? Differences are there, this is certainly. But what makes us look at those differences? What if by seeing things from another perspective? What if that other perspective shows as that symmetry is preserved at another level?
Which belief is going to prevail?
Think.
What do you want to see?
Do you feel safe within a symmetrical universe? Would you feel more creative in an asymmetrical one? What it everything is symmetrical because everything is not? What if everything is asymmetrical because there is no other cosmos where symmetry exists?
