Relax, this is less egghead than it seems because an epigenetic chemical is something not specifically related to the genetics of the animal but still it has some effect.
The reason for the scientific interest is they studied some carpenter ants and there are two castes of carpenter ant workers, the Majors and the Minors. Scientists discovered they could switch workers from one caste to the other with some type of epigenetic chemical when normally the ants would not change after birth.
That influence on behavior shows the things they do are not entirely instinctive. Generally we think ants are little pre-programmed bugs which have no capacity for variation because everything comes from their instincts. Now these scientists show that's not entirely true so the next question is how many other types of these influences exist.
This relates to Richard Dawkins when he was a scientist rather than a Bible-bashing freakshow insofar as his interest was in genetics which goes beyond the obvious genotype (i.e. phenotype - what it looks like, etc) of one creature and is somehow related to the genome of another. He observed such phenomena as wasps taking over other creatures by injecting some chemical into them and they do it because then the other creature can serve as a host for the wasp's eggs. That chemical developed by the wasp had a significant effect on the behavior of the other creature.
The reason for the interest from the Rockhouse stoner is this shows all the more everything is everything, the interrelationships between things are much more complex and sophisticated than the obvious. It's the grooveness, the Oneness, man-n-n-n-n.
It just tickled me no end to learn of face mites the other day because the article said we have many, many of them and there are similar mixes of them within families. It's kind of creepy to think of these ridiculously tiny little bugs but they're part of the bigger package with lots of bacteria in our digestive system to do whatever the hell they do.
It's all the Oneness within the province of Mother Gaia, man-n-n-n-n.
(Ed: you start doing hippie shit with lava lamps and I'm out of here)
Oh, you're going to tell me the hippies were wrong, are you?
(Ed: they were a bunch of drug addicts!)
In fact, they weren't because no hippies were doing heroin and many didn't use any drugs. It was the freaks who had started out as hippies who were blowin' grass and trippin' all the time. The ones who split off to do speed and other types of narcotic drugs weren't freaks anymore but rather self-destructive lunatics.
Even back in the sixties it was common knowledge Speed Kills. Freaks usually didn't like hanging out with people using heavy drugs like that because they're so unbelievably annoying with their endless jibber jabber.
Mother Gaia becomes all the more evident in almost a million years passing by after atmospheric oxygen was available on Earth and when there was evidence of animals. Scientists want to know why so long and this is the really trippin' part of evolution. It's impressive to see a horse evolve from a creature the size of a dog up to modern Arabians but the prebiotic evolution is extraordinary. Life came when previously there was none so how did Mother Gaia do that magic trick?
(Ed: is Mother Gaia really God?)
Unknown but we have no mission to try to refute God since the premise is the Creation (i.e. the Big Bang) set it all in motion. We have no idea if there was a Grand Plan but if there was then this must be part of it.
Some think these prebiotic organic molecules got here from a comet but we would rather hang out here with Mother Gaia because we ask one tiny question: how did the organic molecules get on the fookin' comet when they didn't come here also. That gets out into a Mother Gaia franchise in which she has multiple planets and that's too weird for the stoner mind to comprehend.
Somehow all these molecules jingled and jangled until they got clever enough to replicate themselves but they still weren't alive in any way. For this stoner, that process is philosophical Disneyland because why should any of that happen.
(Ed: it's too complex and improbable so doesn't this prove God exists?)
Well, we figure the Big Bang proves he exists but we don't know what he fookin' does. We're not trying to analyze what he does but we have to eliminate the logical physical process before we assume any divine intervention.
There are organisms which do not need oxygen such as cyanobacteria and presumably those were the first to be considered living creatures. The oceans must have been riddled with them prior to the atmosphere switching to the oxidizing atmosphere of today. Now the scientists ask, why did it take a million years to get from those cyanobacteria to anything else.
And then the trips because in that time, the oceans were full of these cyanobacteria, presumably different kinds of them, and all of them were doing generally the same things. They consume something, some energy is released, then energy is released, and they excrete something. Given there are so many things doing the same function at once and there are not so many different types of them, it seems this release of energy is a form of music in some frequency and might even be audible with so much of it happening at once.
(Ed: so what?)
Scientists are actively pursuing this evolution right now and the stoner intrigue is because the oceans must have been full of what we would consider vile goo but all of that changed. There's a whole day's mysticism in a single sentence.
(Ed: you want science to kill the mysticism?)
It won't. For every question science answers, it reveals yet more questions.
Maybe the buzz isn't apparent but maybe consider a mud puddle in front of you. Somehow life grows out of that for no apparent reason whatsoever. We did study that off and on about early Earth history but that knowledge is out of date and incomplete now so no point in going through the mechanics of it but there's big fascination in seeing presentation of a processes which just might possibly explain it.
The reason for the scientific interest is they studied some carpenter ants and there are two castes of carpenter ant workers, the Majors and the Minors. Scientists discovered they could switch workers from one caste to the other with some type of epigenetic chemical when normally the ants would not change after birth.
That influence on behavior shows the things they do are not entirely instinctive. Generally we think ants are little pre-programmed bugs which have no capacity for variation because everything comes from their instincts. Now these scientists show that's not entirely true so the next question is how many other types of these influences exist.
This relates to Richard Dawkins when he was a scientist rather than a Bible-bashing freakshow insofar as his interest was in genetics which goes beyond the obvious genotype (i.e. phenotype - what it looks like, etc) of one creature and is somehow related to the genome of another. He observed such phenomena as wasps taking over other creatures by injecting some chemical into them and they do it because then the other creature can serve as a host for the wasp's eggs. That chemical developed by the wasp had a significant effect on the behavior of the other creature.
The reason for the interest from the Rockhouse stoner is this shows all the more everything is everything, the interrelationships between things are much more complex and sophisticated than the obvious. It's the grooveness, the Oneness, man-n-n-n-n.
It just tickled me no end to learn of face mites the other day because the article said we have many, many of them and there are similar mixes of them within families. It's kind of creepy to think of these ridiculously tiny little bugs but they're part of the bigger package with lots of bacteria in our digestive system to do whatever the hell they do.
It's all the Oneness within the province of Mother Gaia, man-n-n-n-n.
(Ed: you start doing hippie shit with lava lamps and I'm out of here)
Oh, you're going to tell me the hippies were wrong, are you?
(Ed: they were a bunch of drug addicts!)
In fact, they weren't because no hippies were doing heroin and many didn't use any drugs. It was the freaks who had started out as hippies who were blowin' grass and trippin' all the time. The ones who split off to do speed and other types of narcotic drugs weren't freaks anymore but rather self-destructive lunatics.
Even back in the sixties it was common knowledge Speed Kills. Freaks usually didn't like hanging out with people using heavy drugs like that because they're so unbelievably annoying with their endless jibber jabber.
Mother Gaia becomes all the more evident in almost a million years passing by after atmospheric oxygen was available on Earth and when there was evidence of animals. Scientists want to know why so long and this is the really trippin' part of evolution. It's impressive to see a horse evolve from a creature the size of a dog up to modern Arabians but the prebiotic evolution is extraordinary. Life came when previously there was none so how did Mother Gaia do that magic trick?
(Ed: is Mother Gaia really God?)
Unknown but we have no mission to try to refute God since the premise is the Creation (i.e. the Big Bang) set it all in motion. We have no idea if there was a Grand Plan but if there was then this must be part of it.
Some think these prebiotic organic molecules got here from a comet but we would rather hang out here with Mother Gaia because we ask one tiny question: how did the organic molecules get on the fookin' comet when they didn't come here also. That gets out into a Mother Gaia franchise in which she has multiple planets and that's too weird for the stoner mind to comprehend.
Somehow all these molecules jingled and jangled until they got clever enough to replicate themselves but they still weren't alive in any way. For this stoner, that process is philosophical Disneyland because why should any of that happen.
(Ed: it's too complex and improbable so doesn't this prove God exists?)
Well, we figure the Big Bang proves he exists but we don't know what he fookin' does. We're not trying to analyze what he does but we have to eliminate the logical physical process before we assume any divine intervention.
There are organisms which do not need oxygen such as cyanobacteria and presumably those were the first to be considered living creatures. The oceans must have been riddled with them prior to the atmosphere switching to the oxidizing atmosphere of today. Now the scientists ask, why did it take a million years to get from those cyanobacteria to anything else.
And then the trips because in that time, the oceans were full of these cyanobacteria, presumably different kinds of them, and all of them were doing generally the same things. They consume something, some energy is released, then energy is released, and they excrete something. Given there are so many things doing the same function at once and there are not so many different types of them, it seems this release of energy is a form of music in some frequency and might even be audible with so much of it happening at once.
(Ed: so what?)
Scientists are actively pursuing this evolution right now and the stoner intrigue is because the oceans must have been full of what we would consider vile goo but all of that changed. There's a whole day's mysticism in a single sentence.
(Ed: you want science to kill the mysticism?)
It won't. For every question science answers, it reveals yet more questions.
Maybe the buzz isn't apparent but maybe consider a mud puddle in front of you. Somehow life grows out of that for no apparent reason whatsoever. We did study that off and on about early Earth history but that knowledge is out of date and incomplete now so no point in going through the mechanics of it but there's big fascination in seeing presentation of a processes which just might possibly explain it.
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