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Journal: July 27, 2010
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Human Nature                                Language                                Origins

The Fires of Life (semi-permeable membranes, an early version of "Fire in the Ocean"): It probably starts lower than mitochondria, which are very complex, but more in a series of shells. Shells are so basic that we build them at all levels of life, but think not at all of them as shells. The mitochondrial membranes are complex shells that serve as “asked”, the cell wall is a shell around the mitochondria, organs around cells, bodies around organs, clothes around bodies, houses around bodies, cars around bodies, nations around individuals, creeds around group of true believers: all are shells to protect and sustain mitochondria, or at least the fires they burn.

There is a level below language that occasionally pops into consciousness: the level that arranges the language sequences and searches for the words to manifest that sequence, all of which represents at an ever deeper level, a “thought”. I glimpse this level when I discern what seems to be a premonition of what I want to say or “think” before it manifests itself in language.

I went into science. I learned that science doesn’t know truth, but paints beautiful pictures of it. (Aphorism 34)