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"Floodlight of materiality" to the "Dim reality of the sky"

I was reading a book titled "Fluke" written by Brian Klass. The author mentions a fascinating experiment called the "Long Term Evolution Experiment" carried out by a scientist named Lenski on E-coli bacteria. The bacteria pass through 6.54 generations per day, enabling scientists to observe the evolution of identical bacteria over 1.5 million years of human life. The bacteria feed on glucose and can not digest citric acid. There were hardly any known examples of E-coli eating citric acid. For the experiment, the identical bacteria were divided into 12 different parts. Ideally, in the same conditions and with the same food, the bacteria should have evolved the same way. However, bacteria in one of the 12 flasks developed the capacity to digest citric acid while the bacteria in the other 11 flasks could not develop the same. 

I wonder whether the genetic mutation and evolution of the E. coli bacteria in the Long Term Evolution Experiment have anything to do with "Chance." While the entire brigade of scientists accepted that the Earth was the center of the universe, one scientist called Galelio did a lot of research on the Heliocentric view of the universe. The contemporary authorities punished him and put him under house arrest. How could Galelio see what his entire scientific fraternity could not? 

When Ravana Kidnapped Sita, all his brothers, and son Meghnatha supported him in the name of revenge for his sister's insult. It was only Vibhishana who challenged him. Vibhishana had a conviction that Ravana's behavior was not correct. What made Vibhishana see what could not be seen by others. Not so that other people were stupid. 

I feel that in all these examples, there is one common thread. Intelligence is far greater than the IQ. We generally equate intelligence with IQ. While IQ may be equated to the capacity of the processor, intelligence is the result of good internet connectivity. A machine may have a very robust processor, say the latest generation "Intel i9" processor with a very good RAM of 32GB but if it is disconnected from the internet, it has very limited utility and "intelligence". It is because billions of such other machines are working day and night to produce the content in the virtual world and if a machine is disconnected, it has explored a very limited domain of "localized possibilities". 

The entire universe is connected. Creation of the destruction of galaxies and stars is ongoing in different corners of the universe at the same time. We do not know about the existence or otherwise of life in different parts of the cosmos. We are just like the E-coli in a flask in the "Long Term Evolution Experiment" being observed by some scientists, fighting among ourselves for "glucose". Some human beings feel happy by eating away the share of glucose of other human beings. As they eat more than their share of glucose, it naturally has side effects and they develop physical as well as psychological disorders. Naturally, they become over-dependent on glucose and this instills "fear" within their psyche. They start exercising their power and authority to exploit fellow human beings and the entire humanity becomes busy either attacking or defending. In the meanwhile, some human beings take some time off from this shit and develop the ability to connect to the "world of possibilities" and develop the capacity to eat citric acid making the glucose-eating bacteria extinct. Today no scientist believes in a geo-centric view of the solar system. There can be "good governance" under the leadership of Vibhishana even in Lanka. The world is always full of possibilities if we can take attention away from the "floodlight of materiality" to the "dim reality of the sky". 

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