Life & Exoplanets – Saturday 18th May 2024
Life & Exoplanets – Saturday 18th May 2024
We tend to look at planets without surface life as being dead and they aren’t. I understand from our point of view why we do that, but it isn’t accurate.
It takes a great deal to perfect our planet Earth and for everything on its surface to coordinate for a successful balance for surface life to succeed along it’s course.
If we could rattle around for multi- billions of years we’d be capable of a great deal more than we currently are.
We would discover how a planet needs to be to support life and then have life grow on it. We would learn that things go awry at the same times and places through that process and how, when and where for something to activate or to be added into the mix to prevent it, or detour around it as the case may be.
We would learn that the planet needed big life, flora and fauna for extensive lengths of time.
We’d learn that fossil fuels could build up, unfortunately ignite and combust, so we’d have to work out how to resolve such things. Not to mention gases, radiation and the well being of the planet itself.
Building and perfecting AI is somewhat similar in process, so people involved in that should definitely relate to that format. They started from tiny beginnings and now they’ve built something of scale.
Our genome exhibits similarities to this format. The more complex the genome (or similar) the more contingencies it requires.
On a planetary scale, unforseen incidents can still occur, such as a collision in another galaxy for example, sending objects off course and in any direction.
Regarding our genome, my view doesn’t see these contingencies as having any negative consequences. We are cellular and that has limits, the contingencies all appear to help keep the cellular processes to exist and function to their optimum potential through the course of time.
Like all the other life on Earth, we’re stuck with getting old.
Cellular life replaces itself, the cellular life that ages and ceases, breaks down and becomes part of the planet in a sense and this is the design. Just as forests create new trees and the old fall. This would seem to be purposeful, to me.
Fiona MacLeod (C)