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FROM DNA TO ABC
Chapter 1 - Basics
We are not animals
We must eat and drink to stay in the game of existence. That's the
bottom line. It's as basic as it gets.
Humans don't eat like animals. We don't eat in any way like any animal.
We don't hunt our food. We don't eat it raw. We combine several types of
foods and spices into meals and consumed these with tools at tables.
We use a complex organization of production, distribution, storage and
preparation to provide ourselves with our daily bread, extra virgin
olive oil, frozen chicken breasts and salted shelled roasted nuts.
Not even our closest ape relatives read the newspaper with their
breakfast or talk about their love life or lack of it at lunch.
We don't drink in any way like any animal. We use cups, glasses,
bottles, cans and boxes to drink fruit juices, cows' milk, hot chocolate
and cold sugared, colored, flavored and carbonated water.
Human consumption behavior, together with the apparatus that makes it
possible, separates us from all other animals. We don't even seem to be
in the same game. Eagles, turtles, sardines and spiders are more alike
in their eating and drinking habits than humans to any other animal.
There are other significant differences between humans and animals than
the way they acquire their nourishment and energy. But eating and
drinking is basic, and this is an introduction, an appetizer. Telling
you what humans are not, prepares you for the main course, the tale of
what humans are. If we are not animals, what the invective are we?
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The Human Unit
We humans are an evolved construction of cells. Cells, cells and cells,
billions upon billions of cells. We're great cellebrities.
The cell is not only the basic unit of the human organism; it is also
the basic unit of biology. The cell however is 100% chemical, mainly
molecules and proteins. Why is a cell considered a biological system
when it is made up entirely of chemical elements? I will explain this
later on, but for now let us consider the fact that the cell is a
greater than chemistry chemical unit, a chemical construction that has
transcended the chemical domain and become a biological system.
With this fact in mind consider the possibility that humans can be a
greater than biology biological unit; that they are biological
constructions that have transcended the domain of biology and represent
a new system. Humans are to biology what a cell is to chemistry. They
represent a fourth and new level of structured energy after the atomic,
chemical and biological levels.
What should we call this new system beyond the limitations of biology? I
intend to suggest a name when I explain the nature of this new system
after I've shown how humanity evolved. I'll also explain why humanity
has just reached maturity (the equivalent of 13-14 years old) along with
the other components of the system. I'll then orient us towards some
paths leading to the possible futures.
From DNA to ABC
takes you on a journey:
- from the first stone knife to nanotechnology
- from the first word to machine language
- from the first tribe to the global village
It's an exciting journey over hills of enjoyment
and peaks of insight, finally delivering you into a completely new world.
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