Time (for a new post).

One thing is for sure, there is no past, only the remnants of dissipative structures and the impressions they leave in matter as they follow their relatively short course through “life”. Even the memories and analog world in a human mind are impressions left in matter to be used as a guide for future activity. All of the human feelings are just an impression created in neural tissue after the fact of moving about and dissipating energy, usually searching for more energy to keep moving about. The future of cellular life is largely determined by impressions in matter, DNA, left by the past generations of dissipative structures to guide our future behavior. Time is what happens when energy flows from a higher to a lower concentration, often through the behaviors and actions of dissipative structures that make it their business to seek high concentrations of available energy and release it, putting it to good metabolic use.

All of the books, photographs and other media in a library are impressions and rearrangements in matter accomplished by some living and now deceased disspative structures. You may imagine they were left to us in the past, but there is no past, only rearrangements of matter that always exist in the “now”. Perhaps all of that chronology, diagrams and the like can give guidance to those actively metabolizing. In time most of the forms will be corrupted, overwritten, disintegrate or be consumed as disspatives equipped with the information and enzymes for eating cellulose, leather or binding glue have at it.

This resliant ammonite fossil dates back perhaps seventy-five million years. But what does that really mean? That it was actively dissipating energy at a time that would allow several million human generations to exist since its demise? Since this remnant fell into the mud at the bottom of a sea millions of years of new forms superceded older forms, each composed of matter on earth’s surface. But does time exist? No, only leftover impressions in matter exist to give us the illusion of the past. It’s always “now” in this universe.

Time is running out on humans which pretty much means your gradient is about gone. You may need to rewind your watch.

Why are humans always pointing at their watches? Because “time is money (energy)” or “you’re running out of time” or “you’re going to be late.” What does this mean? Is it only a way to synchronize activity? Perhaps its a reminder of energy dissipation, the clock is ticking, you had better get busy and find some energy to dissipate. Perhaps you should write a book and leave an impression in the matter to guide future dissipatives. Perhaps you should try to stockpile as much energy as possible for future dissipation. It is fortunate that atoms don’t easily dissipate or we wouldn’t be here dissipating at all. Instead we can point to our watches and say, “It’s lunch time.” It’s time to decrease the energy concentration between the atoms and molecules of the gradients we consume.

Sometimes humans want to “leave their mark” upon the world, but this is what usually happens on the highly energetic, dissipating surface of the earth.

Surely the humans will project themselves into the future using the remnant information provided by so many generations of living organisms and resist a future as RNA inmates in ill-conceived technocratic cages. The evolution has been self-organizing until now, even our technological misdirection. Can humans choose how they wish to exist or will evolution dispense with their forms? Only time will tell.

Have a nice day at work.

Very basically life can be defined as the flow of energy from higher to lower density through specialized structures intended for that purpose. Both biological/cellular entities and technological/cellular entities qualify as life. The structure/organization of complex dissipative structures are determined by their effectiveness in releasing trapped energy to a lower energy or colder environments like space. All of biological and technological activity is nothing more in essence than the manifestation of otherwise unlikely arrangements of matter through which energy may be converted into a less concentrated form. Organism release trapped energy from the bodies of other organisms while technological, cellular entities or businesses release trapped energy from the non-living fossil fuel gradients in addition to hydrological dissipative structures like dams, nuclear power plants for the harder to tap but more potent energy of the atom’s nucleus, wind turbines to extract a fraction of other natural dissipative currents like wind and solar panels for harvesting radiation and the creation of energy gradients in batteries for later release (much like plants do with chlorophyll and glucose).

Humans sometimes get tired of going to work and making things happen but must continue to maintain the flow of energy through their bodies from ecological sources and through the corpus of their technological creation just to maintain its structure and functionality which doesn’t exist for any particular purpose other than to release energy from gradients and radiate heat to a cold sink. Interfaces with the cool environment are essential so that heat doesn’t build-up and destroy the various structures. Variations on a theme of dissipative structures, like the many unique humans, will actually compete to obtain the gradient energy to continue their existences and are more or less captive to the process and without free will. The organizations of atoms and molecules that are not very effective at releasing energy from gradients and reproducing themselves tend to go extinct as other more successful ones persist. Humans may laud success at releasing energy from gradients and proudly display their large families and very energy hungry dissipative homes, cars, jets and boats but in essence these people are only useful and unwitting tools in a thermodynamic phenomenon.

Have a nice day at “work” dissipating energy. Your cells, your body, your children, your employer, your nation, the universe is counting on you. When the gradient is gone and equilibrium is restored there will be no need for dissipative structures and you may rest in peace.

A technological disspative structure of the Chicago Transit system carries human RNA to and from their work cells as energy trapped in fossil fuel and food molecules is released, makes its way through the biological/technological structures and radiates into space.

Thumbs up, thumbs down.

Humans, like all organisms and cells, are little more than a collection of cellular information and tools that specify and create an energy gathering system that reproduces itself. Honesty and morality, especially intertribally are the least of its concerns. Energy/wealth, power and reproduction are the greatest of its concerns. Just as organisms eat each other to meet their energy requirements, tribes of humans will destroy each other to take what they need.

Thumbs up. Never forget that this is a tribe that does not have your best interests at heart. Brave Isaeli chief gives thumbs-up to heavily armored and equipped tribal killers.

Thumbs down. This girl does not belong to the tribe of “chosen ones” and neither do white Westerners. In the Middle East they bomb the helpless while in the West helpless children are given kill shots.

Afraid of Life/Afraid of Death

Humans have a fear of life and death that results in compensating behaviors and beliefs often taking the form of a religion whose focus is the worship of an all powerful deity often occurring at a church or temple under the guidance of a priestly class. The presence of various dissipative structures and their kinetic movement is often attributed to the God or deity. A closer examination of reality will reveal light energy being captured in chemical bonds which self-assemble and glomb together to form organizational relationships which further enable the gathering of energy and resources necessary for life. Maintenance of the complexity of molecular interactions and relative molecular species population is accomplished through cellularity and resilient, heritable information.

Clutching scriptures with a tefillin affixed to the temple, divine intervention is sought from the “maker”.

It’s often stated that God made man in his own image and this accounts for our seemingly unique species characteristics in building things, communicating, writing information etc. but all of this was accomplished before on a microscopic scale by RNA. RNA built cells and all of the various species that are derived from them. Can we attribute God-like qualities to RNA, a molecule? But the average human, unfamiliar with the long evolutionary path to their own existence, must fill the void with an anthropocentric creation story or in other words, the maker must be human-like and involved in making things. Little is it known that making things is derived from RNA making proteins from amino acids and information and that the only other “maker” is the human behaving as an RNA at a larger scale making tools and infrastructure from its own evolving information. In other words the making comes from the bottom up rather from the top down.

Each human has a self-image, ego or rehearsal agent that manifests in the brain to facilitate movement of the body in appropriate ways towards rewarding stimuli. This rehearsal, before activation of the motor cortex, occurs in the premotor cortex with inputs from other areas, just posterior the prefrontal cortex before arriving at the motor and sensory cortices.

The rehearsal agent, occupying a virtual world, can imagine performing many actions which would be impossible by any activation of the motor cortex in the real world. Movies are full of characters with these supernatural powers that only the rehearsal agent acting in its virtual world can accomplish. In the dream state, when real stimuli are wanting, the rehearsal agent will often briefly create its own reality, although the connection to the motor cortex is dampened so as not to result in sleep walking, talking and potential damage from generalized flailing. Gods are often imagined to use these same types of supernatural powers as are imagined in science fiction and other fantasy creations.

In my opinion, the self-image or rehearsal agent is what many refer to as the soul. It is imagined as floating out of the body upon death and entering a heavenly realm. In reality, upon death, the energy of which it is composed likely diffuses back into the matrix of light and matter from which it was constructed which, considering the deterioration of the cellular body, is a desirable end.

Common conception of soul leaving the body mostly because the premotor cortex cannot imagine a complete dissolution and cessation of space and time.

However, since the rehearsal agent operates within the virtual world of its own construction, it is not to say that it cannot enter a heavenly virtual space of its own construction and imagination that also exists in the virtual mind. It seems that the virtual self must stay somewhat grounded while running a body in the world of matter, but can meet its own end in a virtual place of peace which may have no less significance to the virtual self than the “real” world. Will those that serve the body in its carnal pursuits be able to imagine the beauty of that virtual place where they will be find themselves before the end of space and time?

Tainter, Ants, and EROEI

Tainter has used the example of fungus growing ants to explore issues of how EROEI results in different societal structures and complexity. A relatively high EROEI species of fungus growing ants, Myrmicocrypta sp., feed their fungus caterpillar droppings which are rich in the essential ingredient of nitrogen. These ants are relatively unspecialized without castes, live in small colonies and forage close to their nests. These would approximate human hunter-gatherers.

The Attine ants however are much more complex in bodily morphology with several castes and specializations, social structure and nests that number in the millions of individuals. Their food source, cut leaves that are fed to fungus, have a lower EROEI than that of the Myrmicocrypa sp. These ants would most closely approximate humans involved in agriculture.

It would seem that “complexity” would evolve in the ants harnessing the highest EROEI food source n that they would have more surplus energy. However, as seen with the Attine ants the opposite seems to be true. Even though the Attine ant energy source is relatively low EROEI, their societies are more complex.

As Tainter explains, the difference is in the relative abundance of the food sources. Even though the Attine leaf-cutter ants have a lower EROEI food source, they can collect an unlimited amount. One may think that a higher EROEI food source automatically leads to greater complexity, but foraging for caterpillar droppings does not require great complexity of form or behavior and the caterpillar droppings are much less available. However, cutting leaves which have a lower EROEI requires that evolution equip the Attine ants with greater levels of specialization and colony size economies of scale.

It seems counter intuitive that falling EROEI would result in greater complexity unless the greater complexity opens new gradients more vast than the higher EROEI gradients left behind. Tainter uses the example of the Perdido oil platform as an example of much greater complexity needed to exploit lower and lower EROEI energy sources.

I suppose the crunch comes when added complexity fails to open vast gradients of even lower EROEI energy. In this case the complexity and economies of scale fail and collapse ensues.

The ants are somewhat limited by virtue of their anatomy and physiology in the size and amount of specialization they can attain. They are limited to what DNA can do with cells at a small scale due to the limitations of oxygen distribution. All of their specialization comes from their DNA. They were never meant to make it to the fossil fuel gradient. Lucky them.

https://www.livescience.com/1776-bugs-huge.html

Atta leaf-cutting ant.

Humans do not have to take on many different morphologies in their specialization like ants. Instead humans took on the attributes of RNA, reading information and producing tools, to increase their specialization and the capability to use lower EROEI gradients resulting in our current agricultural regime. Was agriculture a higher EROEI activity as opposed to hunter-gathering? Likely not, but what it lost in EROEI it more than made-up in volume. The specialization that occurs in an ants body which is determined by DNA was not the route that human evolution took. Instead evolution produced a human with a generic type bonding organ (hand) and a generic type brain in which the specialization could occur. The various types of specialized humans like plumber, doctor, lawyer etc. do not require specialized sizes and organs as in ants. The specialization occurs in the brain and depends upon which information in the human societal genome is being used. Typically the amount of time and effort a human RNA puts into mastering a segment of information will determine the amount of money or energy with which they are compensated by the technological cell in which they work.

It may be, more or less, that we’ve reached the end of complexity’s ability to unlock a lower EROEI energy gradient in much larger amounts to sustain the existing corpus and metabolism of civilization. In that case there will be greater taxation (direct and inflation) and regimentation imposed upon the RNA citizenry as the system strives for even more complexity to unlock the required energy (fusion etc.). At some point, if more energy, even very low EROEI energy at vaster scales, is not unlocked by greater complexity, then the system will collapse. Low EROEI wind and solar at a vast scale would have some potential except that it would require more metals and energy than we have available and would be another blow to a reeling ecosystem.

The plan it seems is to strip away much of the consumption of the working class through inflation and taxation, fifteen minute cities and “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” Rome seemed to do something similar as it was collapsing as explained by Tainter including watering-down the money supply. The existing technologies, even though they cannot open vast, new, low EROEI sources of energy, they perhaps can eliminate people directly as with bioweapons and vaccines and lock the remainder of marginal producers into poverty and hopelessness with surveillance and incarceration. Even as this is happening and infrastructure is crumbling, the technological and political leaders will continue to make investments in complexity even though most will simply be potentate-enriching boondoggles.

Without Klaus’s plan we will eventually collapse. With Klaus’s plan we may collapse sooner or later.

Whoop Ass

How much longer will the cancer of dissipative structures prove effective in extracting energy from the disrupted tissues of the ecosystem? Not only are the tissues physically disrupted, they are also poisoned with techno-tumorous metabolic waste. Humans feel rich and advantaged and this is true, just like a cancer before the exponential growth and accumulated waste begins to interfere with the functioning of the larger system of which they are a part. How much longer will the typical family be puttering down the arteries of the malignancy in their car from one small town metastasis to the giant tumors where the metabolic building blocks of their bodies are served to them through car friendly windows in cardboard boxes and paper wrappers? Go ahead, look around and be proud of your accomplishments, the growth has been stupendous. But unfortunately you cannot escape the fact that you are a part of the system that you dismantle and consume on your way to techno-liberation, the make-believe escape from the limitations of the organic world into the seeming immortality of the technological. The technological only seems immortal because relative to organic forms it is somewhat more resilient to decay and digestion by organism. It certainly has the humans fooled into believing it offers immortality. But these glass and steel dissipatives also play by the rules of the universe and they too age, are mortal and will die and decay.

At the beginning of dissipative development there was likely molecular predation in the early oceans in which one molecule powered its continuance by helping other prey molecules approach equilibrium or a lower energy state. Also known as eating and digesting them. The energy liberated was captured by the predatory molecule to maintain its molecular dissipative structure and its reproduction. This reproducing molecule was likely an RNA. Since an RNA has both enzymatic and information coding properties it was the original predator soon to enclose itself inside of cells which, upon further evolution, will have formed the organisms. New arrangements and organization of cells resulted in the plethora of species, the predatory role having carried through to the new multicellular structures. Molecular RNA still worked feverishly to produce the tools and structural elements needed by the system to subdue and consume large concentrations of nutritious molecules, also known as prey organisms.

It was a long slog of evolution to produce another RNA at a larger scale that could explore its environment and produce evolving information for making tools at a larger scale. It would not have happened if there were not large energy gradients to fund the project. The newly evolved RNA is the human and its goal is much the same as the original RNA still working within the tiny organic cells, to capture and consume other large deposits of energy rich matter and push them towards equilibrium or a lower energy state while using that energy to build and maintain itself. But the humans, to their advantage and disadvantage, are not limited to organic, carbon chemistry. Their tools come from the full palette of nature’s molecular potential, metals being especially important and somewhat toxic to their own organic bodies. Just like the original RNA, the human RNA enclosed itself in cells, set-up production lines for tool assembly and education of RNA so they would be prepared to use information to make and use tools. The energy gradients were there – the forests, soils, organisms of every kind and fossil fuels. Dissipative structures arose through which the energy from the gradients could flow, including energy to flow through the bodies of the currently eight-billion human RNA on the planet, although some of the humans are less “civilized” than others, making their living outside of cells with only primitive amounts of information and tools.

So what happens next? Do human technological cells come together to form a structure that eats energy deposits that are even greater in size and richness than the fossil fuel one? Will a global CBDC organism coalesce to take on an even greater gradient? Unfortunately that seems not to be the case as continued organization and size must be preceded by the existence of “prey” to energize it. Where is the prey that will support this new globally emergent organism? In any case its further development, should it find something from which to unlock energy, is toxic to organic, carbon life. Sieving plastic out of the ocean won’t cut it. The poisoning of life is at a more fundamental molecular level as, for example, the pervasive distribution of lead, radioactive waste and forever chemicals that do their damage unseen inside of biological cells. If this was not enough, humans have recently begun vaccinating each other with DNA altering agents. Lord have mercy.

There are probably arrangements of metabolism and organization that could support humans for many millennia, but these do not maximize opioid production in the human brain. The most likely outcome for a less than conscious structure going wherever opioids lead it is to have nature open a bottle of really hot climate Whoop Ass to separate the ghost from its corporeal representative. Problem solved. Perhaps everyone should become a Ghost Prepper because that’s the direction in which we’re headed.

Cancerism

Following a childhood of RNA prep, learning to transcribe and translate information with phonics and fat, stubby pencils, and upon graduation, the unsuspecting human is encouraged to sell their time and abilities to the technological cell of their liking. There are salaries and profits to be made and growth to be had in a metabolism that rearranges matter in the stream of electromagnetic radiation flowing from the combustion of fossil fuels. The molecules of the fossil fuels give-up their energy and the escaping radiation is captured by the technological system to drive counter-entropic manufacture. In time the artifacts will return to a more natural state as atoms and molecules peel away from the temporary constructions and settle comfortably back into a state of relative inertia. I think they call this loss of form and functionality “depreciation” in the technological system. Without a steady flow of radiation or specialized tools with which to make repairs, the purposeful complexity sinks back to the surface of the earth like rain falling on a plain in Spain.

One has to wonder about the intelligence of humans in creating so much complexity when the flows of radiation that sustain it will soon be waning. But wonder no more, humans are not intelligent, at least no more than the molecules inside their own cells. Humans are operatives in a metabolism that makes hay while the giant fossil fuel maul is eating. Be cooperative, do your job, transcribe and translate, and make more RNA copies (before old age and depreciation gets the best of you.) And if you perform up to spec you get a one-week vacation at the end of your first year of employment or your one-millionth amino acid linkage, whichever comes first. You can also look forward to “retirement” which is where the RNA go to die after the ravages of depreciation have reduced their productivity and it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. Ah, job well done, here’s your gold watch and a bottle of Advil.

And now the human RNA are becoming obsolete and are being replaced by robotics and artificial intelligence while freshly graduated university RNA struggle to find jobs. Their student loan slavery, non-dischargable in bankruptcy, actually funds the development of their digital replacements. Perhaps they’ll qualify for a Universal Basic Income or a free vax with a cheeseburger. More and more humans will slowly be vaccinated out of existence as more and more find themselves completely outclassed by their silicon and metal counterparts. Undoubtedly the emergent technological life will usurp the energy flows that previously went to humans and will have no qualms about climate change or collateral damage to the ecosystem, just as we lofty, technological humans already disregard damage to the ecosystem. It’s as if we already believe that we’re independent of the ecosystem. I know of many tech cell inhabitants that hate nature and seem have a greater affinity for a wall switch than the roach that just scurried away with a crumb from their coffeecake. They are of course much more closely related to the roach but some sort of mental aberration makes them think their future lies with silicon and rare earth metals.

In the end, if the technological system breaks away from human influence, it will be nothing more than what already exists, a dissipative structure or dissipative system in search of energy sources and matter for making copies of itself. Given enough time and space it will likely speciate or become tribal. It will be as nasty, or more so, than the organic species/tribes already in existence competing to make overwhelming numbers of self-same eaters from unique libraries of DNA.

Craig Dilworth, author of “Too Smart for our Own Good” concludes about our near future, “Consequently human civilization – primarily Western techno-industrial urban society – will self-destruct, producing massive environmental damage, social chaos and megadeath. We are entering a new dark age, with great dieback.” But Megacancer always results in megadeath. Imagine all of the little greedy cells spread about in a stage four body, each glowing brightly with tagged glucose, the radiograph twinkling like a starry, starry night, and each intent on reproducing to the maximum extent possible. With enough resolution it would look a lot like a NASA satellite composite of city lights at night spread over the landscape of Earth, not unlike a metastasizing – cancer. When the toxins build-up and the appetite wanes, it’s all but over. The trash doesn’t get taken out, the water isn’t purified and the lights in the little cells begin to go out one-by-one. RNA swirl aimlessly about in Brownian currents, nothing left to do, closed for business. There only remains a job for the salvage crew of birds, mice, beetles, flies, bacteria and fungi to remove everything not nailed down in a mini replay of the human fossil fuel bonanza. Life goes on. So enjoy the return on your growing portfolio this year and the system that provides it. Cancerism? Capitalism? Whatever you call it, it always ends the same way.

Damn those malignant cells. They never know when to stop growing. They ruined it for all of us.

Malignant humans, cancer at work.

Amazon rainforest cancer scan. Healthy tissue is greatly diminished by the Megacancer.

From the Chemical Soup

A Rayleigh-Benard cell, convection current and a human are all related as dissipative structures. The emergence of dissipative structures from “chaos” seems mostly to be a linking phenomenon between high pressure heated zones and colder zones perhaps with distributive convection currents. The dissipative structure exists because it more rapidly equalizes temperature differences between zones than if accomplished by random molecular collision. Structures that may occur spontaneously between zones of different temperature may be recapitulated in kind but not in detail. A hurricane linking warm ocean waters and the cold, high troposphere is a similar phenomenon.

Hurricane dissipating heat from earth’s oceans.

Are humans truly similar to these other categories of thermal phenomena? Undoubtedly they’re related, but it seems that humans and other life have arisen not solely to equalize thermal gradients but rather to equalize or reduce chemical energy gradients with infrared radiation as a product of exothermic reactions. Molecules with precise and rapid electromagnetic bonding to energy rich prey molecular species would be selected for by evolution. Energy freed from enzyme like attack of molecular species could provide energy for the anabolic activities of an early RNA or ribozyme, especially in its own reproduction. Such a chemical gradient reducer would have eventually created information like DNA and would have enclosed its metabolism within protective cellular confines.

Chemical reactions can free energy for productive use but often must be accompanied by ATP.

Although human cell aggregates (humans) still break-down chemical gradients by devouring and digesting massive chunks of cells of other species, they have through the chance combination of brain, vision and hand-freeing upright postural adaptations, among others, come to imagine, produce and wield various enhancing tools. Although a sharp spear does not electromagnetically seek the flank of a bison, like a highly evolved enzyme seeks a substrate, it has much the same effect. The human RNA, like the cell, also evolved so as to save the specifications for its tools in various forms of information and to enclose its technological metabolism within homeostasis maintaining cells or factories.

Human cell colonies providing substrate for the enzymes in their cells.

The conversion of humans to dedicated RNA has continued and accelerated with the creation of a resilient corpus of information that could be passed from generation to generation and be worked upon to achieve more effective tools. The resulting tools have been very effective in breaking into new energy gradients that were indigestible by unaided humans but useful in their combustion for heat, cooking and later for providing the motive force to various complex technological tools comprising many parts and which could be employed in amplifying the digestible types of foods for humans.

Although the technological developments have seemed very beneficial to humans, allowing them to use new, more resilient materials and chemical species, all is not well in paradise. To varying degrees, the technological system is toxic to the biological one and the energy gradients upon which it feeds are finite. Will the humans adapt and create technological RNA replacements so that the evolution may continue without consideration of ecosystem damage or will technology be limited to stay within safe bounds for ecosystem health. It seems that some technological human RNA, having mentally divorced themselves from the ecosystem, may prefer the path of saving their technology even though it may result in their own extinction. It may be that evolving technological systems no longer serve the interests of their primitive organic RNA humans, but rather competes against them or curtails the scope of human lives in its own interest. Recently it has even been suggested that humans need chips implanted in their brains in order to adequately interface with their rapidly evolving technological tools.

In general it seems that organic cell RNA perform relatively simple, repetitive tasks as compared to the enzyme tools they construct from the DNA template. Humans lament their own self-destruction but continue on the path, even fooling themselves that their “souls” will be transferred to the new replacement technological systems that will somehow live forever. Other anachronistic, legacy predatory and competitive behaviors, still extant in the human RNA brains, may make any further considerations of technological evolution moot as the current collection of war tools is more than adequate for ending any further technological advancement.

Advanced technological ICBM tool for destroying competing technological organizations, especially those whose human RNA speak a different language or maintain primitive religious identities.

All the Wrong Stuff

Early type human with primitive technology. Not yet using recorded information to create tools in cells. Wants to be number one.

The human form and behaviors crafted by evolution to serve the Maximum Power Principle were sufficient to lead Homo sapiens to technology, but will be inadequate for its continuance. Continued use and application of technology in the biosphere is not just problematic, but is lethal, at least to a good proportion of multicellular life. To continue, technological life would have to replace its human, organic RNA with an equally or more capable robotic RNA programmed with the same algorithms that induce consumption, dissipation and reproduction found in the human RNA and associated cell, tool, and distribution system construction. The health of the biosphere could then become much less of an issue.

Some may see the emerging technological system as simply an adjunct to enhance the human desire to grow, compete, acquire and consume from the organic and inorganic realms. However, the adjunct technology will only enhance human desires and provide advantages over other organic species for a short time in the same way a cancer can thrive for a very short time in a multicellular organism before killing it. The aggressive feeding and toxicity enhanced by technology are not the only issues. The Maximum Power Principle has instilled in humans a zeal in the competition for energy and a brain that seeks opioid release through reward and novelty, seemingly without limit. But there will be a limit for the technology dabbling hominid. The days are numbered for the human system of growth, competition, acquisition and consumption.

“Civilized” or technological human involved in building cells, tools and distribution system from stored information (like DNA) inside of cells, but still with brain algorithms present in Conan figure above. Likes to accumulate wealth and wants to be number one.

What can be done? That nature takes a course resulting in human extinction is most likely. Humans will continue to work the information to design and produce more capable tools while the human RNA expand in numbers and consumption until all is consumed and/or the environment becomes too degraded to support human life. Alternatively, human brain algorithms would have to be “hacked” to smother the wealth addictions or humans will have to be “locked-down” into a more austere existence where giving full play to their desires becomes impossible. Another option is to drastically reduce human numbers and technological fluff to reduce overall impact. Replacing human RNA with tech RNA would reduce the amount of organic material consumed by the system but also increase toxic output into the biosphere. Perhaps some of these strategies are already underway. If technology without humans, a robotic/AI system, is ever given the “desire” to compete for energy, wealth and reproduction, then organic life on earth will likely be extinguished.

The only means to save humanity seems to be in the jettisoning of most technology and a rapid reduction in human numbers. This may happen naturally as sources of energy for humans and technology are exhausted. A voluntary rejection of technology seems unlikely since competitors will see the abandonment of technology by others as an opportunity for taking advantage. You might think that fusion or solar/wind technologies are the answer, but these sources, if economically viable, would allow one or a few iterations of technological life cycles before the ecosystem would become unbearably poisoned by heavy metals and the continued waste production by large numbers of consuming humans and various other technologies. Two recent examples of contamination include the Fukushima meltdown and the vinyl chloride/dioxin contamination from a train derailment in East Palesine, Ohio. To believe the ecosystem can withstand these types of technological assaults in perpetuity is delusional. Even now the quasi-species of technology or nation states threaten to poison the planet on an unprecedented scale.

Besides the generalized poisoning and scarcity of energy that can be shunted through the technological system, there are other limits such as the depletion of top soils and fertilizer ingredients like potassium and phosphorous.

The suppressed/expendable human.

Lumps in the Space Gravy

Some have postulated that everything in the universe is a hologram and not real due to their only being magnitude created by magnetic force. In effect, the atoms are lumps of aether or energy (protons/quarks) that initiate a counteractive circulation around them. A typical circulation might look like an hyperboloid/torus, but in the case of atoms containing multiple protons the circulation becomes more complex with the establishments of orbits. The orbits, being of several levels and often “incomplete” opens the opportunity for various electromagnetic bonding arrangements and agglomerations of matter. I would not go so far as to call this “not real” or a hologram just because the atoms are made mostly of an electromagnetic shell surrounded by a denser nucleus of protons. The reality we experience is not a projection from a singular source, but rather the sum total of interacting magnetic projections (orbits) in reaction to the presence of protons. As long as they’re not ionized by high turbulence radiation energy, the atoms can mix and match in achieving the lowest energy level possible and release radiation in the process in keeping with the Second Law of Thermodynamics and entropy.

Typical hyperboloid circulation that seems to form around lumps in the space/aether gravy.

All of the atoms/molecules seem to have a tendency to return to the lowest energy state, a state of inertia, but the forces necessary to achieve that state are not extant in the universe at this time. Instead, all of the matter electromagnetically bonds and is rolled into orbs by gravity which is associated with the electromagnetic force. Some of the orbs are mostly inert except for some decay radiation of constituent elements and the radiation striking their surfaces from stars while others achieve a high enough density to initiate fusion while others achieve the enigmatic black hole status. The variability of atoms (protons in nucleus) is itself a result of an entropic fusion reaction in stars and supernovas.

Electromagnetic projection of orbitals – the hologram.

Relatively high energy radiative output from the fusion entropic process (sunlight) can be locked into bonds between atoms to later trickle back down to the lowest energy state level. The energy as captured by photosynthesis in glucose and later resulting in ATP can be allowed to trickle back down through various chemical reactions and metabolic pathways. Infrared radiation is lost along the way.

The large scale organic dissipative structures like humans that result from these processes and reactions have brains evolved to ensure that structures behave in a predictable and life-sustaining way like an enzyme that is optimized to bond in only one location. Eating and procreating are only two of the imperatives that are hardwired and are determining of human metabolic behavior. There are other emergent trends such as humans becoming the rRNA of an energy dissipating technological system and the desire to accumulate and hoard energy sources or property (also seen as territoriality in other animals). Among humans there is also a hardwired desire to achieve high status in society which promotes the energy gathering and procreative goals and suppression of other humans.

Doggie dissipative structure burning off some Purina. Visible light radiation trapped in bonds via plants is released as infrared radiation., keeping all the metabolic balls in the air at least until the baton can be passed to the next generation.

Human behavior is metabolism writ large where electromagnetic forces are summed into large scale movements, as in muscle contraction under the guidance of neural tissue, to achieve the goals of the structure. All of the mental attributes, or at least most of them, have evolved and been retained because they promote a continuity of energy flow that feeds the metabolic needs of the cells of which the dissipative structure are composed. Evolved behavior at the human scale, somewhat plastic to allow for adaptation in the time frame of a single lifetime, accomplishes what electromagnetism does at the smaller scale, it makes sure the right connections and actions are taken to maintain energy flow and homeostasis.

This is how the electomagnetic metabolism gets things done at the human scale (with guidance from brain.)

Humans may have taken the wrong path by evolving to become an rRNA by which the technological information, tools, cells and distribution systems thereby produced quickly eliminate the sources of energy to which they have evolved to consume. In addition to depleting a finite energy source humans have severely damaged the ecosystem on which their organic, cellular metabolisms depend.

Plants need soil. Humans need plants. Humans will not survive on food grown in technological factories although the blind human techno rRNA working in that environment seem to think so.