vrijdag 15 oktober 2010

The chicken or the egg

We all have our moments when we look for meaning and purpose, for our life itself became dull. Filosophers and great thinkers throughout  the ages liked the methaphysical wondering about anything possible, sometimes they found new knowledge or insights which were useful for daily life, but most of them wanted to transend this daily life. Trying to escape it into a magical world of difficult words, complex logic wich ,is not logic at all most of the time, and above all freedom. Complete freedom to think what you want, about whatever you want. Finding the answer is not always a relief then if you are mainly interested in escaping daily life, you have to find a new problem, or a problem with no answer, thats even better, to have a back up. The chicken or the egg question is seen with a metaphorical meaning of which came first, X that can't come without Y, or Y that can't come without X? Well its easy to see that you can loose your head a long time over this question, unless you change the parameters in your view.
If you don't want to escape this life or kill some time, you can try to look with an educated, open mind to the question and the answer will come pretty fast. Children of evolution will say that species change over time via mutation and selection. Since DNA can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place at conception or within an egg such that an animal similar to a chicken, but not a chicken, laid the first chicken egg. In this light, both the egg and the chicken evolved simultaneously from birds that were not chickens and did not lay chicken eggs but gradually became more and more like chickens over time.
So one egg mutated and these mutations seemed to be advantageous since after a long interbreeding period there was a new species. I think that this is the best line of defense ever written for the creationists, simplify it a bit with some vulgar words and we have a question you can not answer correctly.
The evolution from a creature with just one cell to two cells was quick and clean, but after this it became less obvious and a new species can't start with one, although there is one mutant it takes a long interbreeding period before there can be talk of a new species or the species as a whole had an upgrade.
This brings us immediately at the heart of the problem, thinking, is there a good way of thinking, a better way and if yes what is this then and how can we do this. Cause no matter who you are, life has its dull moments, most of the amazing things we see, hear and feel can only speak one time directly with all its power to the soul. After this it's a pleasant full shadow we see, hear, feel and reminds us of this glorious moment. So we cannot find a golden bullet to erase the dullness, we need a way of living and thinking in which we are able to experience this pleasant full feeling more often, maybe not always as deep but at least more regularly.

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