Zephyrs of Time Part 2
Hunger is the most basic instinct of all. Ever since life populated earth, hunger for resources has shaped a dead rock into a planet full of life. Hunger, is the most powerful instinct, causing the movements and migration of small and large animals. Hunger as the craving for food and resources implies to compete and multiply to breed, to populate and to expand. Hunger is the driving force of the living from the beginning of life itself. The paths to control hunger, are the paths for the perpetuation and evolution of life. Today, I am proud to expose to you our findings about the origins of life on earth and how resources were funneled through complex catalysis into replicators. In a certain manner, I am going to talk to you the parliament, about the origins of hunger.
A solemn silence perpetuated inside of the chamber that day, the smell of the building stone crept the walls like resurrecting from the caves they came from, beating up with cold air the smell of the waxed wooden floor, cologne and coffee breath of a hundred parliamentarians who persisted during hours, discussing day and night about human trivialities. Today, all of our pitiful existence was decimated by his sharp words.
He continued... in general we classify our world between living and non-living, and often we using motion as a simple rule to differentiate them both. There is motion when energy is spent in the process, however, not everything that moves is alive conversely everything that is alive moves, creating a copy of itself as similar as possible, giving rise to a lineage. However, the transition from dead to alive and how inanimate matter would replicate and form the living remained a mystery. I and my team had studied the conditions by which this process could have arisen, and was able to find replicators or chemical machines able to self-assemble.
Claudius continued explaining details of his research for about 3 hours, where none of the parliamentarians moved or blinked an eye. The smell of the walls brought me to those caves I explored during my undergraduate time in Montes de Maria, amidst the waging fire of troops and bandits, fighting for the control of the area. The caves were our only shelter and way of survival, nobody would enter due to the myths of monsters and dead people souls who wandered around the mountain massacre after massacre for years. Our only objective was to reach the deepest points to measure the composition of the rocks at the base of the geological formation to find the conditions that promoted the origin of life.
The parliament chamber was crowded that day. People side by side so tightly packed and quiet, that Claudius's voice seemed to be enough to fill every eardrum in the place regardless of the thin and scarce atmosphere absent at such mountain heights. Cold, crowded and thin air dominated the parliament grounds that day lurking the boundaries between the crowded people inside.
Claudius talked for five more minutes about our findings, describing with high-resolution videos the fantasy of high diversity of shapes that our experiments produced, life from dead matter rose in front of our eyes in every experiment and explained how those shapes were spontaneous between the environment and the presence of an ecological structure inside. It all gave rise to a form a hungry form of life. As Claudius's voice was heard by everyone in the country, I grew concerned about the rising chills in the parliament grounds, the cold which nobody else could notice or at showed signs of shiver, started producing a type of foggy atmosphere emanating from the rocky walls.
It became obvious, something was not right. The president of the parliament stood up surprised by the evident phenomena, however, it took few seconds until his eyes blanked and fell on his kneesto the ground. A wave of panic and confusion was suffocated by the fog followed by the decaying sound of constrained mumbles and moanings by a second wave of fog. It expanded, and covered the seats of the Congress and overflooded the atrium to the highest point knocking everybody down to the ground burning their skins reaching Claudius who was already dead.
The smell was strong and sulfurous but very cold so cold that my fingers and ears froze, my knees and eyes and finally my thoughts. I remained frozen paused thinking about a single idea - I am frozen but not dead -
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A solemn silence perpetuated inside of the chamber that day, the smell of the building stone crept the walls like resurrecting from the caves they came from, beating up with cold air the smell of the waxed wooden floor, cologne and coffee breath of a hundred parliamentarians who persisted during hours, discussing day and night about human trivialities. Today, all of our pitiful existence was decimated by his sharp words.
He continued... in general we classify our world between living and non-living, and often we using motion as a simple rule to differentiate them both. There is motion when energy is spent in the process, however, not everything that moves is alive conversely everything that is alive moves, creating a copy of itself as similar as possible, giving rise to a lineage. However, the transition from dead to alive and how inanimate matter would replicate and form the living remained a mystery. I and my team had studied the conditions by which this process could have arisen, and was able to find replicators or chemical machines able to self-assemble.
Claudius continued explaining details of his research for about 3 hours, where none of the parliamentarians moved or blinked an eye. The smell of the walls brought me to those caves I explored during my undergraduate time in Montes de Maria, amidst the waging fire of troops and bandits, fighting for the control of the area. The caves were our only shelter and way of survival, nobody would enter due to the myths of monsters and dead people souls who wandered around the mountain massacre after massacre for years. Our only objective was to reach the deepest points to measure the composition of the rocks at the base of the geological formation to find the conditions that promoted the origin of life.
The parliament chamber was crowded that day. People side by side so tightly packed and quiet, that Claudius's voice seemed to be enough to fill every eardrum in the place regardless of the thin and scarce atmosphere absent at such mountain heights. Cold, crowded and thin air dominated the parliament grounds that day lurking the boundaries between the crowded people inside.
Claudius talked for five more minutes about our findings, describing with high-resolution videos the fantasy of high diversity of shapes that our experiments produced, life from dead matter rose in front of our eyes in every experiment and explained how those shapes were spontaneous between the environment and the presence of an ecological structure inside. It all gave rise to a form a hungry form of life. As Claudius's voice was heard by everyone in the country, I grew concerned about the rising chills in the parliament grounds, the cold which nobody else could notice or at showed signs of shiver, started producing a type of foggy atmosphere emanating from the rocky walls.
It became obvious, something was not right. The president of the parliament stood up surprised by the evident phenomena, however, it took few seconds until his eyes blanked and fell on his kneesto the ground. A wave of panic and confusion was suffocated by the fog followed by the decaying sound of constrained mumbles and moanings by a second wave of fog. It expanded, and covered the seats of the Congress and overflooded the atrium to the highest point knocking everybody down to the ground burning their skins reaching Claudius who was already dead.
The smell was strong and sulfurous but very cold so cold that my fingers and ears froze, my knees and eyes and finally my thoughts. I remained frozen paused thinking about a single idea - I am frozen but not dead -
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