Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

(Rodrigo GrandaB_hQJo) #1

─Nexus 6 , the murder of Deism or Theism?


The evolution of types and forms of intelligence continues to break


clichés. Scientific research by Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith (organic


chemist and molecular biologist at Glasgow University) in the 20 th century


proposes a 'clay theory' to explain the origin of life, focusing on the


interaction of active sites on clay mineral surfaces with simple organic


molecules. This idea was first introduced by Cairns-Smith in (^1966) [ 51 ]. He


proposed that during the formation of a mineral crystal, ─particular types of


lattice defects (e.g., dislocations) generally replicate as a necessary part of


the crystallization process─. Since these imperfections appear to replicate,


they are self-selecting, so it is likely that any crystallization process


involves rudimentary biological evolution. In 1974 , MIT Biology research


scientist Hyman Hartman (^) [ 52 ] used this idea to suggest that metabolism


might have evolved from a simple rather than a complex environment


[although metabolism was not mentioned in the 1966 Cairns-Smith paper].


Clays can replicate and drive the evolution of metabolism; they have the


catalytic ability to synthesize monomers (amino acids, nucleotides, etc.)


and polymerize them, resulting in peptide RNA worlds in which RNA


replicates (genes) and, in cooperation with encoded peptides, drives the


evolution of the cell. There is a great variety of clay minerals, but from the


perspective of this work, the smectic group is the most important.


But in this fourth Industrial Revolution (^) [ 53 ] The myth of the "clay


man" is still rooted in the modern imagination, with origins in various


Theisms, in the case of Western thought (in which I was educated) the


notion ─biblical and Greco-Latin─ of the "lost paradise" is the repository


of faith and of that which holds the answer to all questioning. These notions


attribute to "civilized" humans all their qualities under the idea of a divine


breath and without the evils from which "primitives" not "contaminated" by


"civilization" would be free. But this freedom is lost at the moment of their


disobedience to the "superior being", to the "divine power". If so, this


would be the first case in which the machine created by man kills its


creator. But that case, ─which everyone fears, has not yet arrived─, is

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