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A concept, notion, or thought

November 21st, 2006

I’m reading Meme by Sean Sinjin. A meme is a concept, notion, or thought. Generally, it can be passed on to others. It is the information equivalent of a gene. I have no doubt that I am the fruit of billions of years of evolutionary change. I’ve come to fully realize I’m an animal just like any other, albeit highly more intelligent. (The fact that our DNA has evolved to produce a plethora of gray matter has granted us a great capacity for intelligence.) Life truly is about survival of the fittest. I wanna share an excerpt from the book:

This all happened by chance. Believe it. It sounds ridiculously unlikely that this could happen at all, and it is ridiculously improbable that it even did happen. Look at it this way: it’s very unlikely that you would be directly hit by a person-sized meteorite, perhaps a trillion to one. But, what if a trillion meteorites all came down at the same time? Chances are, you’d be finished. This is how phenomal odds can be overcome, by a phenomenal number of instances. There were incomprehensible numbers of these cells, over unimaginable numbers of generations, and each and every cell was subjected to the same random gene mutation mechanism. If you do the math, it becomes quite obvious that there’s nothing lucky about the evolution of life at all; it’s a statistical inevitability.

Read a book. Know things! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: knowledge is powerful; ignorance is dangerous. The rich get richer and the poor stay poor. (That does not happen by chance, it’s design.) Treat yourself, better yet, treat your brain to some information. Therein lie the building blocks for continued progression toward a better world for you and all that inhabit this wonderful niche in the universe we call home.