Are you just a bucket of water?
Water is associated with every life on planet. From single cellular organisms to multicellular organisms, from viruses to fungi to humans, water is essential. So, far best explanation for evolving life on earth is that it started as monocellular organisms on earth billion years ago and evolved into the life which prevail as of now. If that is true, the forces acting on each tiny cell in a bucket of water must be the same rules which act on us. On the other hand, someone can argue that it is not. That we, multicellular organisms are subjected to different rules of nature.
Life of a microbe
Let's look at a microbe (unicellular animals). There are thousands of them if you take a bucket of water from well, or a stream, or even from ocean. They Foat, they live, and they die. These monocellular organisms actually die. If you haven't seen how these organisms die, you can follow the video link. Of course, they cease to move, and stop all the other functions, and start to decay, just like we human beings. So, what does that mean? Do they also possess a soul which keep their unicell living? Does that soul also capable of going to the heaven after this unicellular life? If so, do they reborn as unicellular in Heven or become multicellular? Who keeps track of millions and billions of these tiny creatures to decide their future in this scenario?
A bucket of water, Bucket of life.
Moving from the bucket of water we now look at ourselves. It is a scientific fact, that as multicellular, animals, also have most of their bodies bathed in water. It is a commonly known fact that about 2/3 of our body weight is water. (around 48kg in a 72kg man) Instead living in the sea of water, we carry a bucket of water with us everywhere we travel. It is a tradeoff between, mobility vs better survival. And evolution decided, it is better to move than risk staying in the same place and getting extinct. This has the side effect of we are needing more energy to move.
Not only moving, if you look at carefully what we are doing by means of "living" is essentially same as what a unicellular organism does in the water. We immerse each and every cell in our body in water (we call it extracellular fluid) and supply our hard-earned food, digested into small particles so these cells can survive. We maintain a good supply chain, by means of a pump, a network of vessels and blood inside. Maintaining the bucket of water is so called living. And truly speaking if it is not for the skeletons, we would be able to be filled inside a bucket easily, like goo.
So, where does this fact leave us?
I wouldn't say I am so sure at this moment. Maybe we think about things too complicated that we forget the simple facts about ourselves. Maybe souls are not such unique and is abundant in nature.
What do you think about your bucket of water?
Following is a paragraph from the book What is time?
World of Goo.
You may have played the famous game “world of goo” on your pc or on your smartphone. And as the story goes there's a race between goo balls and ‘world goo corporation’ and building a tower and finding z dimension in the 2D world. In this chaos of goo story, ultimately, they reach the far away planet to populate it with more goo. And it seems sarcastic to think that we are represented with these goo balls, which we help to navigate rivers and build towers with.
And it was shown that if all the seven billion people on our planet were put together into a giant goo ball it would expand over just under one kilometer in diameter. And putting it into perspective we can keep the human goo ball in the middle of the central park in New York and it will be expanding only 100 meters beyond either side of the width of the park. Compare it to the immense size of our planet and see how insignificant we are on our own planet just in comparison of size.
In summary.
Every living creature on earth depends on water.
We carry a bucket of water with us everywhere we go.
Living is simply maintaining the bucket of water.
Compared to our planet we are insignificant just like a microbe in a bucket of water.
...
Thank you for reading: A bucket of water, the Bucket of life.
You may also like to read: Cockroach ethics.
Comments