tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74752966519184720952024-03-05T02:16:16.807-08:00A Simple Explanation of Absolutely EverythingThe Simple Explanation suggests that a "universal unit of consciousness" carries all of the information that manifests as our particular time/space continuum. This universal unit of consciousness is the primal algorithm of the set of laws that govern our universe. Some people call that God. Other people think it all can be boiled down to math and physics.
[open Topical Index immediately below this title for all articles]cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.comBlogger384125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-39185153389546524342024-03-03T08:04:00.000-08:002024-03-03T08:04:15.958-08:00It all starts with a torus!<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hello, friends! This blog's longtime reader in Spain sent me this torus cartoon. Too funny! Thanks, Jesus!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIUrlkebNoTx3CeQYpn-F9GgIgKge017f9Jxtxobl9BUbuzC3H47i_XcV84xYLgjrEcs2sRxRTVd7Jk8S0TzX_1mQf0xvQTJ8CFqradTggr2N2d7bznCdf03QCbzFc_lwTyQrCgqM8IMS6umCVGXEK6afmSO4Jrk7L73t7pOQjoBtGOk_BERFTawegZWBh/s900/torus%20cartoon.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIUrlkebNoTx3CeQYpn-F9GgIgKge017f9Jxtxobl9BUbuzC3H47i_XcV84xYLgjrEcs2sRxRTVd7Jk8S0TzX_1mQf0xvQTJ8CFqradTggr2N2d7bznCdf03QCbzFc_lwTyQrCgqM8IMS6umCVGXEK6afmSO4Jrk7L73t7pOQjoBtGOk_BERFTawegZWBh/w367-h244/torus%20cartoon.jpeg" width="367" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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recently, most scientists held that true cognition arrived with the
first brains half a billion years ago. Without intricate clusters of
neurons, behavior was merely a kind of reflex. But Levin and several
other researchers believe otherwise. He doesn't deny that brains are
awesome, paragons of computational speed and power. But he sees the
differences between cell clumps and brains as ones of degree, not kind.
In fact, Levin suspects that cognition probably evolved as cells started
to collaborate to carry out the incredibly difficult task of building
complex organisms and then got souped-up into brains to allow animals to
move and think faster.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">That
position is being embraced by researchers in a variety of disciplines,
including roboticists such as Josh Bongard, a frequent Levin
collaborator who runs the Morphology, Evolution, and Cognition
Laboratory at the University of Vermont. “Brains were one of the most
recent inventions of Mother Nature, the thing that came last,” says
Bongard, who hopes to build deeply intelligent machines from the bottom
up. “It's clear that the body matters, and then somehow you add neural
cognition on top. It's the cherry on the sundae. It's not the sundae.”</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">In recent
years interest in basal cognition has exploded as researchers have
recognized example after example of surprisingly sophisticated
intelligence at work across life's kingdoms, no brain required. For
artificial-intelligence scientists such as Bongard, basal cognition
offers an escape from the trap of assuming that future intelligences
must mimic the brain-centric human model. For medical specialists, there
are tantalizing hints of ways to awaken cells' innate powers of healing
and regeneration.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">And
for the philosophically minded, basal cognition casts the world in a
sparkling new light. Maybe thinking builds from a simple start. Maybe it
is happening all around us, every day, in forms we haven't recognized
because we didn't know what to look for. Maybe minds are everywhere.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">Plants can
sense their surroundings surprisingly well. They know whether they are
being shaded by part of themselves or by something else. They can detect
the sound of running water (and will grow toward it) and of bees' wings
(and will produce nectar in preparation). They know when they are being
eaten by bugs and will produce nasty defense chemicals in response.
They even know when their neighbors are under attack: when scientists
played a recording of munching caterpillars to a cress plant, that was
enough for the plant to send a surge of mustard oil into its leaves.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">Plants'
most remarkable behavior tends to get underappreciated because we see
it every day: they seem to know exactly what form they have and plan
their future growth based on the sights, sounds and smells around them,
making complicated decisions about where future resources and dangers
might be located in ways that can't be boiled down to simple formulas.
As Paco Calvo, director of the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the
University of Murcia in Spain and author of <em>Planta Sapiens</em>,
puts it, “Plants have to plan ahead to achieve goals, and to do so, they
need to integrate vast pools of data. They need to engage with their
surroundings adaptively and proactively, and they need to think about
the future. They just couldn't afford to do otherwise.”</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"><span class="dropcap">T</span>he orthodox view of memory is that it is
stored as a stable network of synaptic connections among neurons in a
brain. “That view is clearly cracking,” Levin says. Some of the
demolition work has come from the lab of neuroscientist David Glanzman
of the University of California, Los Angeles. Glanzman was able to
transfer a memory of an electric shock from one sea slug to another by
extracting RNA from the brains of shocked slugs and injecting it into
the brains of new slugs. The recipients then “remembered” to recoil from
the touch that preceded the shock. If RNA can be a medium of memory
storage, any cell might have the ability, not just neurons.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"> <span class="dropcap">L</span>evin's
research has always had tangible applications, such as cancer therapy,
limb regeneration and wound healing. But over the past few years he's
allowed a philosophical current to enter his papers and talks. “It's
been sort of a slow rollout,” he confesses. “I've had these ideas for
decades, but it wasn't the right time to talk about it.”</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">That
began to change with a celebrated 2019 paper entitled “The
Computational Boundary of a Self,” in which he harnessed the results of
his experiments to argue that we are all collective intelligences <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240116154518/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-many-minds-of-marvin-minsky-r-i-p/">built out of smaller, highly competent problem-solving agents</a>. As Vermont's Bongard told the <em>New York Times</em>, <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">“What we are is intelligent machines made of intelligent machines made of intelligent machines all the way down.”</span></p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">Levin hopes
this vision will help us overcome our struggle to acknowledge minds
that come in packages bearing little resemblance to our own, whether
they are made of slime or silicon. For Adelaide's Lyon, recognizing that
kinship is the real promise of basal cognition. “We think we are the
crown of creation,” she says. “But if we start realizing that we have a
whole lot more in common with the blades of grass and the bacteria in
our stomachs—that we are related at a really, really deep level—it
changes the entire paradigm of what it is to be a human being on this
planet.”</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph">Indeed,
the very act of living is by default a cognitive state, Lyon says.
Every cell needs to be constantly evaluating its surroundings, making
decisions about what to let in and what to keep out and planning its
next steps. Cognition didn't arrive later in evolution. It's what made
life possible.</p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Okay. That's all I'm going to quote here. You can read the entire article by clicking on the embedded link above.</span></p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I think I will further elaborate on this concept in a <a href="https://gnosticinsights.com/" target="_blank">Gnostic Insights podcast</a> very soon, which will also bring in the spiritual implications. Until then, onward and upward! </span></p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMqK0uw7uV75-b5WI2l8oyv2ZeEm2fLVALq-tNGgNLofgHtU26w7y5yuSw98FsufYthI-tLCpcQ-eg-rs9Ycfj72Ivgjurp0b108FO2as0LprgMeFpbWY6BbxSW7eGjRglkDyfJjbmDfGcWREGEjCFpTtUK6_lqKJGnTmbgQHPkBHchSCUBKW7KgYfUGx/s448/HumanHierarchy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="448" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMqK0uw7uV75-b5WI2l8oyv2ZeEm2fLVALq-tNGgNLofgHtU26w7y5yuSw98FsufYthI-tLCpcQ-eg-rs9Ycfj72Ivgjurp0b108FO2as0LprgMeFpbWY6BbxSW7eGjRglkDyfJjbmDfGcWREGEjCFpTtUK6_lqKJGnTmbgQHPkBHchSCUBKW7KgYfUGx/s320/HumanHierarchy.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span> <br /><p></p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"></p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"> </p><p class="article__block-KZIY9" data-block="sciam/paragraph"> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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I do hope you are listening to my Gnostic Insights podcast. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">cyd</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="post-header" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: #f5fcff; color: #3e5b67; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;"><h1 class="post-title unpublished" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: var(--font-size-32); font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px;">Parasites: The Administrative State and the WEF</h1><h3 class="subtitle" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: var(--font-size-18); font-weight: 400; line-height: var(--line-height-24); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--size-12);">Is this how Imperial America (and American freedom) ends, consumed by its parasites?</h3><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--3WtIZ frontend-pencraft-Box-module__padding-bottom-16--26C97" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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--tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: var(--color-bg-primary-themed); border-radius: 50%; border: 4px solid var(--color-bg-primary-themed); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: var(--size-48); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-4); object-fit: cover; width: var(--size-48);" width="80" /></picture></a></div></div></div></div><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--3WtIZ" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-11--1-ofT frontend-pencraft-Text-module__line-height-20--1soeQ frontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-medium--aTbx5 frontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-meta--2i-cR frontend-pencraft-Text-module__color-pub-primary-text--34HX2 frontend-pencraft-Text-module__transform-uppercase--38jbr frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV frontend-pencraft-Text-module__meta--3RRSj" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-primary-themed); font-family: var(--font-family-meta); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="profile-hover-card-target frontend-reader2-ProfileAndPublicationHoverCard-module__profileHoverCardTarget--1uh2V" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: inline-block;"><a class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__decoration-hover-underline--1I94L frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV" href="https://substack.com/@rwmalonemd" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px; text-decoration-color: unset; text-decoration-line: unset; text-decoration-style: unset; text-decoration-thickness: 0px;">ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS</a></div></div><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-4--1yqLa" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; gap: 4px; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-11--1-ofT frontend-pencraft-Text-module__line-height-20--1soeQ frontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-medium--aTbx5 frontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-meta--2i-cR frontend-pencraft-Text-module__color-pub-secondary-text--Gqdnv frontend-pencraft-Text-module__transform-uppercase--38jbr frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV frontend-pencraft-Text-module__meta--3RRSj" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-secondary-themed); font-family: var(--font-family-meta); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;">MAY 24, 2023</div></div></div></div></div><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flexGrow--2TZzh frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-space-between--2plan frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--2Hbzh frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-16--1-GDy frontend-pencraft-Box-module__padding-y-16--4Q7bU frontend-pencraft-Box-module__border-top-detail-themed--1lxH2 frontend-pencraft-Box-module__border-bottom-detail-themed--2d6rB post-ufi" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-detail-themed); border-top: 1px solid var(--color-detail-themed); display: flex; flex: 1 1 1px; gap: 16px; justify-content: space-between; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-top: 16px; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-8--9VnmZ" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; gap: 8px; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="like-button-container post-ufi-button style-button" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; background: 0px 0px; border-radius: calc(var(--size-40)*.5); box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: var(--size-8); cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex: 0 0 auto; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; height: var(--size-40); min-width: var(--size-40); padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: none;"><a class="post-ufi-button style-button has-label with-border" role="button" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; background: 0px 0px; border-radius: calc(var(--size-40)*.5); border: var(--border-default-themed); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); column-gap: var(--size-8); cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex: 0 0 auto; height: var(--size-40); min-width: var(--size-40); padding: 0 var(--size-12); user-select: none;"><svg class="icon" fill="#000000" height="20" role="img" stroke-width="2" stroke="#000" style="height: 20px; width: 20px;" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><svg class="lucide lucide-heart" height="24" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M19 14c1.49-1.46 3-3.21 3-5.5A5.5 5.5 0 0 0 16.5 3c-1.76 0-3 .5-4.5 2-1.5-1.5-2.74-2-4.5-2A5.5 5.5 0 0 0 2 8.5c0 2.3 1.5 4.05 3 5.5l7 7Z"></path></svg></g></svg><div class="label" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-top-width: 2px; color: var(--color-secondary-themed); font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px;">21</div></a><ul class="dropdown-menu tooltip subscribe-prompt-dropdown" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: var(--color-bg-elevated); border-radius: 8px; border: var(--border-default); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 10px 15px -3px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 4px 6px -2px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: var(--font_family_ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'); left: 160px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 320px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; top: 40px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-8px); transition: visibility 0s linear var(--animation-timing-fast),transform var(--animation-timing-fast) var(--animation-smoothing),opacity var(--animation-timing-fast) var(--animation-smoothing); user-select: none; visibility: hidden; z-index: 1;"><div class="dropdown-menu-wrapper" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-height: 410px; overflow: hidden auto; padding: 20px; width: 320px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; justify-content: start; margin: 0px !important;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--3WtIZ frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-20--KN5df" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--3WtIZ frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-4--1yqLa" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 4px; text-decoration: unset;"><h4 class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-16--yeezN frontend-pencraft-Text-module__line-height-20--1soeQ frontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-semibold--2XLPl frontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-text--hJYwu frontend-pencraft-Text-module__color-primary--2I-sF frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV frontend-pencraft-Text-module__header4--29ICx" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--color-primary); font-family: var(--font-family-text); font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"></h4><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-14--1PYz8 frontend-pencraft-Text-module__line-height-20--1soeQ frontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-normal--mEmBf frontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-text--hJYwu frontend-pencraft-Text-module__color-secondary--XjVGl frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV frontend-pencraft-Text-module__body4--flxpT" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-secondary); font-family: var(--font-family-text); font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"></div></div><form style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-direction-column--3WtIZ frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-12--2Ko3l" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; text-decoration: unset;"><label class="frontend-components-like_post_upsell_modal-module__label--3lZgq" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--2Hbzh frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-12--2Ko3l" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; gap: 12px; text-decoration: unset;"><input checked="" class="frontend-components-like_post_upsell_modal-module__selectedInput--3BSQV frontend-components-like_post_upsell_modal-module__input--3NjBB" name="plan" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; appearance: none; border-radius: 14px; 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--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-primary); font-family: var(--font-family-text); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"></span><span class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Text-module__size-14--1PYz8 frontend-pencraft-Text-module__line-height-20--1soeQ frontend-pencraft-Text-module__weight-normal--mEmBf frontend-pencraft-Text-module__font-text--hJYwu frontend-pencraft-Text-module__color-secondary--XjVGl frontend-pencraft-Text-module__reset--20JLV frontend-pencraft-Text-module__body4--flxpT" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-secondary); font-family: var(--font-family-text); font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"></span></div></div></label><label class="frontend-components-like_post_upsell_modal-module__label--3lZgq" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; cursor: pointer;"><div class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Box-module__reset--tAIEo frontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--379wL frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-align-center--2Hbzh frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-12--2Ko3l" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; gap: 12px; text-decoration: unset;"><input class="frontend-components-like_post_upsell_modal-module__input--3NjBB" name="plan" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; appearance: none; border-radius: 14px; border: 1px var(--color-light-detail) solid; height: 28px; margin-left: 0px; 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--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-secondary); font-family: var(--font-family-text); font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset;"></span></div></div></label></div></form><button class="pencraft frontend-pencraft-Button-module__buttonBase--2lTCc frontend-pencraft-Button-module__button--3hZ0m frontend-pencraft-Button-module__priority_primary-theme--m5KFb frontend-pencraft-Button-module__size_medium--187Vn frontend-pencraft-Button-module__fill_filled--3mJTN frontend-pencraft-Button-module__grow--20uHO frontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-justify-center--3_JWr" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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--tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasites,</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> by Katrin Alvarez, 2011</span></p></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I am a biologist, if nothing else. One of the many blessings of being a biologist is the wide range of metaphors for human group behavior which flow from this field. And of these, pondering the various adaptive strategies which species interacting with other species employ can be particularly productive.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I like to use metaphors as an insight engine. A sort of mental bridge from one field of knowledge to another. Reasoning by analogy, insights and knowledge from one discipline can often be used to break open new ways of thinking about another.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">If you think of humanity as like a virtual ecosystem, then the ways that social groups (or tribes?) interact with each other can be considered similar to the way species interact in a physical ecosystem. This is one door that can be used to pass into the thought space of sociobiology. E. O. Wilson, a central figure in the history of sociobiology, defined the field as "the extension of population biology and evolutionary theory to social organization".</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Which logic leads me to pondering parasites, the various forms of parasitic interactions, parasitic behaviors, and their relevance to a few of the topics which consume much of my thought these days; the Administrative State, the World Economic Forum (WEF), those whose interests the WEF represents, and the culture and technology of Transhumanism which the WEF seeks to shape as a future for the rest of us.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Not to say that corporate media doesn’t also display parasitic behaviors. Let’s park that one for now, and come back in a later essay. Or maybe it is just self-evident and needs no further discussion.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I find it hard to wrap my head around the big picture of what is really going on with the failure of many western governments to effectively serve their citizens, the “Global Reset”, the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, globally harmonized transsexual and transhumanism advocacy, and the “climate agenda” at a macro level. So I reach out to things that I do understand relatively well, hoping that they can provide insight into these big systemic “global” movements that I find harder to understand.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">So, here we go.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">For purposes of this thought experiment, consider that since World War II, the American Imperial State has essentially become an apex predator. It certainly acts like one, walking around the earth like Tyrannosaurus Rex, flashing big teeth and consuming whatever high energy animal food it can catch. Apex predators tend towards extinction (as species) due to various general outcomes of their interactions with the ecosystems within which they exist.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">One way that predators become extinct is that they can become so successful, so highly adapted, that they outstrip their resource base - they run out of prey (food). As prey become more scarce, or is able to adapt to the pressure of its predators <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">think asymmetric warfare strategies including gorilla insurgencies and 5th gen. warfare ….</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">>, highly specialized apex predators require larger and larger territories, and will eventually exhaust the environmental resources and conditions which they have become so well adapted to exploit. <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Expansionist imperialism, for example, and the limits of petroleum - based energy illustrate this paradox></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. The evolutionary question to be solved here is whether the apex predator can maintain itself as a species <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">or organization, or empire</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">> by adapting to the reality of these changing conditions <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">safe nuclear power, for example</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">> or will it be so constrained by the evolutionary <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">or organizationa</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">l> choices previously made which enabled it to become an apex predator. Decisions which constrain its ability to adapt to the changing conditions.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Evolution is a funny thing - it can result in highly adapted species existing on a sort of evolutionary island of their own making, where the changes (mutations) required to get to a more adaptive solution (distant island) impose a price that cannot be paid without damaging the reproductive fitness of the species so severely that it will never be able to get to that better island (with more food or essential resources). In the case of nation-states, the price to be paid is often political. When politics becomes corrupted or ossified <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">like in our current gerontocracy</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">>, the ability of a nation-state to adapt to changing conditions, to evolve, becomes very limited. It is often observed in DC that political (or bureaucratic) change cannot happen until certain people retire or die. Which is an argument for why more strict implementation of a fixed retirement age makes sense. Think of it like a form of term limit for bureaucrats. Another way to nourish the tree of liberty. The career of Dr. Anthony Fauci provides a nice case study to illustrate this point.</span></p><div class="pullquote" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom: var(--border-default-themed); border-top: var(--border-default-themed); margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-style: italic; font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); line-height: 1.6em; margin: var(--size-32) 0; text-align: center;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontocracy" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Gerontocracy</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">: </span></strong><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Form of oligarchical rule where leaders are older than most of the population</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-style: italic; font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); line-height: 1.6em; margin: var(--size-32) 0; text-align: center;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. In many political structures, power within the ruling class accumulates with age, making the oldest individuals the holders of the most power. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontocracy" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Wikipedia</a></strong></p></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The same can happen to social groups or “tribes”. Their “reproductive fitness” can be compromised by becoming too dogmatic, too specialized. I refer to “tribes” in the sense of tribal behaviors, with current examples including the wearing of paper dust masks to prevent viral transmission, dying hair purple or blue, displaying the colors of the Ukraine national flag by non-Ukrainians, and verbal virtue signaling <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">which pronouns do you use?</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">> which are currently frequently used to display group allegiance to others. Those others that belong to your group, as well as to those who are outside, the non-believers. The terms subculture or mass formation group are less biased ways of expressing the same idea. <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Or counter-mass formation group in the case of those who argue that there is no virus, and that “terrain theory” can completely explain infectious disease.</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">> The term “cult” is another word along this spectrum which is even more judgmental, more loaded with bias.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">There are competitive (evolutionarily adaptive) advantages in being a generalist, in not being too highly invested in one ecological niche, or one group, tribe or cult. In a sociopolitical sense, generalists are often centrists.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Generalists do not accrue the benefits of becoming apex predators, but are in a much stronger position to adapt to changing conditions- to be able to transport to and survive on the next evolutionary island. In terms of global politics, you might think of the Swiss republic as an example of a generalist political system which has proven (over a very long time) to be able to adapt rapidly to changing political conditions by not seeking to become an apex predator, not seeking to dominate others and unilaterally extract their resources (eat others) to support their own growth and reproduction. Sometimes less (specialized) is more (adaptive) over the long run.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Personally, my sense is that the US Government has become overly specialized in various forms of the various forms of warfare. In contrast to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy position of "speak softly, and carry a big stick, you will go far!", current USG policies have downplayed the “speak softly” part (diplomacy) and become overly reliant on an wielding an over-developed stick. I suspect that T. Rex was not known for diplomacy. Why bother with subtle negotiation and laborious crafting of win-win outcomes when you can just march in and gobble up whatever you want to eat.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Another way that apex predators become extinct is environmental change, either from external forces or in some cases due to consequences of their own success <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">we could use a different political term, and call that problem blowback</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">>.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">And then there are parasites. </strong><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Viruses do exist (just to drop a shovel of cement down that particular rabbit hole), and a case can be made that they are the ultimate (apex?) parasites. Bacteria have viruses, called bacteriophage. Animals, insects, plants, pretty much all living things are preyed upon by one or more viruses. Some make the case that the prototypical viruses arose in plants, which then adapted to insects that eat plants, which then adapted to other animals that eat insects, and on ad infinitum. Viruses are really sort of like genome parasites. And they are ubiquitous. Which is not to say that terrain theory does not have its merits. 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border-bottom: var(--border-default-themed); border-top: var(--border-default-themed); margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-style: italic; font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); line-height: 1.6em; margin: var(--size-32) 0; text-align: center;">Courtesy of Wikipedia. Virus deniers, don’t attack me for sharing verifiable biological truth!</p></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Fun fact</strong></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">: When you think of Tyrannosaurus Rex, what comes to mind? Big teeth embedded in a big jawbone within a big head (my answer, maybe yours also). The fossil record indicates that T Rex developed a little problem with a freeloader (a </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichomonas" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Trichomonas</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">-like parasite). This particular parasite appears to have caused the terrible lizard to develop holes in its jaw. That would certainly appear to be a problem if you were a big eater that needs a strong jaw! Gives new meaning to the term “Jawbreaker”.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px auto; width: 728px;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4641469c-44b8-4539-b88f-2230a172ca52_2106x1446.png" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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border-bottom: var(--border-default-themed); border-top: var(--border-default-themed); margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-style: italic; font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); line-height: 1.6em; margin: var(--size-32) 0; text-align: center;">Above, artists interpretation of T Rex with Trichomonas infection. Below, a microscopic image of a Trichomonas species parasite.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px auto; width: 728px;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2aad224-a5a0-4012-8081-12600249c9b7_400x362.png" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: var(--size-12); top: var(--size-12); transition: all var(--animation-timing-fast) var(--animation-smoothing); width: var(--size-32);"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Bureaucracies often develop parasitic characteristics, and </span><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">I have become convinced that the United States’ Administrative State bureaucracy has become parasitic on its host, the federal government (and the general citizenry of the United States)</strong><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. And not in a good way. More like the </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichomonas" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Trichomonas</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">-like parasite eating away at T Rex’ jaw.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">I am also convinced that the World Economic Forum has become parasitic on the global economy. </strong><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">In both cases, these groups are not providing good value to citizens, and have become self-sustaining subcultures whose primary function seems to be self-preservation and advancement of their own interests and agendas at the expense of the overall “fitness” of the general population.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Now just to be clear, not all host-parasite interactions are bad. There are a wide range of bacteria which live in your gut (even more so that of a cow, for example) that are absolutely essential for you to live and thrive. This is an example of one form of parasitism, commensalism. A case is often made that the little internal engines which power each of our cells, technically called mitochondria, are actually examples of a highly evolved (and ancient) commensal host-parasite relationship, with the mitochondria being a sort of bacterium which has become an evolved and adapted intracellular parasite. You can think of commensalism as win-win. Commensalism typically develops over a very long period of coexistence between parasite and host, in which what might have originally been a more predatory interaction gradually evolved into something that benefits both host and parasite. But the relationship between the modern Administrative State and the Federal Government is relatively new, and is far from a benign commensal relationship. Likewise the WEF and its globalist UN/WHO/WTO allies.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Lets play a game.</strong></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> Allow me a moment to stretch open your </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Overton window</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> using well documented parasitic strategies as metaphors for the actions and behaviors of the Administrative State and the WEF. Stretching is good, like yoga for your mind.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: var(--size-32) auto;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 0px auto; width: 728px;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7334005-292b-41ee-a65a-d8937bd9678c_470x796.png" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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--tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">There are six major parasitic </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_ecology#Evolutionarily_stable_strategy" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">strategies</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, namely </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_castrator" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">parasitic castration</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">; directly transmitted parasitism; </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trophic" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">trophically</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">-transmitted parasitism; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(epidemiology)" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">vector</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">-transmitted parasitism; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">parasitoidism</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">; and micropredation. These apply to parasites whose hosts are plants as well as animals.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism#cite_note-Rollinson-15" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">[15]</sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism#cite_note-PoulinRandhawa2015-21" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">[21]</sup></a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> These strategies represent </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">adaptive peaks</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">; intermediate strategies are possible, but organisms in many different groups have consistently </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">converged</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> on these six, which are evolutionarily stable.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasitic castrators</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_castrator" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasitic castrators</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> partly or completely destroy their host's ability to reproduce, diverting the energy that would have gone into reproduction into host and parasite growth, sometimes causing gigantism in the host. The host's other systems remain intact, allowing it to survive and to sustain the parasite.</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasitic crustaceans such as those in the specialized </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">barnacle</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> genus </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacculina" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Sacculina</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> specifically cause damage to the gonads of their many species</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">of host </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">crabs</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. In the case of </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Sacculina</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, the testes of over two-thirds of their crab hosts degenerate sufficiently for these male crabs to develop female </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">secondary sex characteristics</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> such as broader abdomens, smaller </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chela_(organ)" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">claws</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and egg-grasping appendages.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-left: var(--size-20); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Directly transmitted</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Directly transmitted parasites, not requiring a vector to reach their hosts, include such parasites of terrestrial vertebrates as lice and mites; marine parasites such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">copepods</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyamidae" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">cyamid</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> amphipods; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenea" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">monogeneans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">; and many species of nematodes, fungi, protozoans, bacteria, and viruses. Whether endoparasites or ectoparasites, each has a single host-species. Within that species, most individuals are free or almost free of parasites, while a minority carry a large number of parasites; this is known as an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_distribution" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">aggregated distribution</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-left: var(--size-20); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Trophically transmitted</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trophic" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Trophically</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">-transmitted parasites are transmitted by being eaten by a host. They include </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trematodes" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">trematodes</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> (all except </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomes" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">schistosomes</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestodes" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">cestodes</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthocephala" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">acanthocephalans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentastomida" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">pentastomids</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, many </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundworms" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">roundworms</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and many protozoa such as </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Toxoplasma</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">They have complex life cycles involving hosts of two or more species. In their juvenile stages they infect and often </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyst" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">encyst</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> in the intermediate host. When the intermediate-host animal is eaten by a predator, the definitive host, the parasite survives the digestion process and matures into an adult; some live as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal_parasite" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">intestinal parasites</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. Many trophically transmitted parasites </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_increased_trophic_transmission" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">modify the behaviour</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> of their intermediate hosts, increasing their chances of being eaten by a predator. As with directly transmitted parasites, the distribution of trophically transmitted parasites among host individuals is aggregated.</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinfection" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Coinfection</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> by multiple parasites is common.</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongyloides_stercoralis#Autoinfection" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Autoinfection</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, where (by exception) the whole of the parasite's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_life_cycle" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">life cycle</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> takes place in a single primary host, can sometimes occur in helminths <</span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">worms</em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">> such as </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongyloides_stercoralis" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Strongyloides stercoralis</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-left: var(--size-20); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Vector-transmitted</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_vector" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Vector-transmitted</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> parasites rely on a third party, an intermediate host, where the parasite does not reproduce sexually, to carry them from one definitive host to another. These parasites are microorganisms, namely </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">protozoa</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">bacteria</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">viruses</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, often intracellular </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">pathogens</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> (disease-causers). Their vectors are mostly </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematophagy" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">hematophagic</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> arthropods such as fleas, lice, ticks, and mosquitoes. For example, the deer tick </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_scapularis" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Ixodes scapularis</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> acts as a vector for diseases including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Lyme disease</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babesiosis" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">babesiosis</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_granulocytic_anaplasmosis" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">anaplasmosis</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">. Protozoan endoparasites, such as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">malarial</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> parasites in the genus </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Plasmodium</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and sleeping-sickness parasites in the genus </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Trypanosoma</a></em><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, have infective stages in the host's blood which are transported to new hosts by biting insects.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-left: var(--size-20); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasitoids</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Parasitoids</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> are insects which sooner or later kill their hosts, placing their relationship close to predation. Most parasitoids are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid_wasp" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">parasitoid wasps</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> or other </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">hymenopterans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">; others include </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipterans" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">dipterans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoridae" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">phorid flies</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiobiont" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Idiobiont</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> parasitoids sting their often large prey on capture, either killing them outright or paralysing them immediately. The immobilised prey is then carried to a nest, sometimes alongside other prey if it is not large enough to support a parasitoid throughout its development. An </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oviposition" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">egg is laid</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> on top of the prey and the nest is then sealed. The parasitoid develops rapidly through its larval and pupal stages, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_provisioning" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">feeding on the provisions</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> left for it.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinobiont" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Koinobiont</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> parasitoids, which include </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diptera" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">flies</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> as well as wasps, lay their eggs inside young hosts, usually larvae. These are allowed to go on growing, so the host and parasitoid develop together for an extended period, ending when the parasitoids emerge as adults, leaving the prey dead, eaten from inside. Some koinobionts regulate their host's development, for example preventing it from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupa" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">pupating</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> or making it </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysis" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">moult</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> whenever the parasitoid is ready to moult. They may do this by producing hormones that mimic the host's moulting hormones (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysteroid" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">ecdysteroids</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">), or by regulating the host's endocrine system.</span></p><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; margin-left: var(--size-20); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Micropredators</strong></h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">A micropredator attacks more than one host, reducing each host's fitness by at least a small amount, and is only in contact with any one host intermittently. This behavior makes micropredators suitable as vectors, as they can pass smaller parasites from one host to another.</span><sup style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </sup><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Most micropredators are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematophagy" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">hematophagic</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, feeding on blood. They include annelids such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">leeches</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, crustaceans such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchiura" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">branchiurans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnathiidae" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">gnathiid</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> isopods, various </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diptera" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">dipterans</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> such as mosquitoes and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">tsetse flies</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, other arthropods such as fleas and ticks, vertebrates such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">lampreys</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, and mammals such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">vampire bats</a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">.</span></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Do these parasitic strategies describe US Administrative state (deep state) or the WEF? If not, why not?</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">As I stated at the beginning of this essay, I believe that using strategies found in nature to find analogies for complex political and cultural organizational strategies has merit. It opens up new ways of thinking about human society and social structures. So, can we use biology to predict how these organizations will react on the world stage in the future?</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Lets discuss.</p><div style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><hr style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background: var(--color-detail-themed); border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: var(--size-32) 0; padding: 0px;" /></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: flex-start; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); direction: ltr !important; font-family: var(--font_family_ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'); line-height: 1.5; margin: 24px auto; max-width: 560px; padding: 32px; text-align: center;"><div class="preamble" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; font-family: var(--font_family_ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'); font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--size-16); max-width: 384px; width: fit-content;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Who is Robert Malone is a reader-supported publication. 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Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-58716539907330484392023-03-08T05:37:00.004-08:002023-03-08T05:57:47.006-08:00Sub-Surface Toruses Project Polygons onto the Surface<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The subtitle of an article posted to livescience.com caught my eye this morning:</span></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">"Physicists have finally uncovered the mechanism behind the spectacular patchwork of hexagons on salt flats. The answer lies hidden beneath the crust and works like </span><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">a donut-shaped radiator.</span><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">"</span></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">Anytime I see "donut-shaped," I'm interested. Here's the abstract about the phenomenon at <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011025" target="_blank">Physics Review</a>:<br /></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.92857rem; font-weight: 200; line-height: 1; margin: 0.2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Salt Polygons and Porous Media Convection</h3><h5 class="authors" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.14286rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; margin: 0.2rem 0px 2px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Jana Lasser, Joanna M. Nield, Marcel Ernst, Volker Karius, Giles F. S. Wiggs, Matthew R. Threadgold, Cédric Beaume, and Lucas Goehring</h5><h5 class="pub-info" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.14286rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; margin: 0.2rem 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Phys. Rev. X <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">13</span>, 011025 – Published 24 February 2023</h5><p><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From fairy circles to patterned ground and columnar joints, natural patterns spontaneously appear in many complex geophysical settings. Here, we investigate the origins of polygonally patterned crusts of salt playa and salt pans. These beautifully regular features, approximately a meter in diameter, are found worldwide and are fundamentally important to the transport of salt and dust in arid regions. We show that they are consistent with the surface expression of buoyancy-driven convection in the porous soil beneath a salt crust. By combining quantitative results from direct field observations, analog experiments, and numerical simulations, we further determine the conditions under which salt polygons should form, as well as how their characteristic size emerges." </span></p><p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzhoZ1g7U2_MaHdMx16MldvCM_d4L3SeDMm5wN5eLXJ0TbFgbNV0e_5QFZraeFnu03OekPEcbMLWalhfEIz8EgFQebJRdWuHVLomukwcL-7Xr0oJXkPL17jCLLbjHLSBA1m_ICZ3NPuKTek1ZKIjZfhRKzCOr3SWzwAhd3PpN1XF10JHDcKo7X9dFt_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzhoZ1g7U2_MaHdMx16MldvCM_d4L3SeDMm5wN5eLXJ0TbFgbNV0e_5QFZraeFnu03OekPEcbMLWalhfEIz8EgFQebJRdWuHVLomukwcL-7Xr0oJXkPL17jCLLbjHLSBA1m_ICZ3NPuKTek1ZKIjZfhRKzCOr3SWzwAhd3PpN1XF10JHDcKo7X9dFt_w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">more from<a href="https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/31" target="_blank"> Physics Focus:</a></span><p></p><p id="d5e93" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Salt flats, deserts, and dry lakes host mysterious and still unexplained patterns of interlocked polygons formed from narrow ridges that grow on the salt-encrusted ground. Now researchers believe they can explain how these patterns form through the interaction between fluid flowing in the soil and fluid evaporating at the surface [<a class="ref-target inline-ref-target" data-ref-target="c1" href="https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/31#c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #470a68; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">1</a>]. The new work appears to offer a unifying explanation for the growth of such polygons in a wide range of different physical conditions.</p><p id="d5e98" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Salt polygons form in regions where the rate of evaporation of water from the ground significantly exceeds the rate of precipitation. In such places, evaporation at the surface is balanced by a continuous flow of groundwater from more distant sources. For example, Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, is supplied by water from the nearby mountains. This water rises to the surface and leads to continuous evaporation, even in the absence of rainfall, and it leaves a salt residue behind. But why these residues form into ridges that trace out polygonal patterns has remained mysterious. Also puzzling is why the patterns turn out to be so similar wherever they occur, despite local differences in geology, salt chemistry, and environmental conditions.</p><p id="d5e100" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Salt deserts are some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world,” says physicist Jana Lasser of the Graz University of Technology in Austria. The polygons are “always a few meters across, but no one has been able to explain the origins of these patterns with their distinctive size and shape.”</p><p id="d5e102" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">To find an explanation, Lasser and her colleagues developed a mathematical model of the processes occurring at and just beneath the surface. This model, based on fluid dynamics and other geophysical principles, predicts that a typical dry lake bed will develop a heavy salt-rich layer of fluid near its surface as a result of the salty residue above.</p><p id="d5e125" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">This dense, salty layer rests unstably on top of less-dense fluid below. If the driving force of evaporation is sufficiently strong, a convective flow develops in the fluid: saltier water sinks and less-salty water rises, which generates upward- and downward-flowing columns of fluid, like those that appear in boiling water. Using fluid parameters characteristic of real salt lake beds, the researchers predict these so-called convection rolls to be roughly 1–2 m across—suspiciously similar to the sizes of observed polygons.</p><p id="d5e127" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In simulations, the team went further to study the long-term evolution of this fluid flow. The simulations show that the convection rolls ultimately generate a set of narrow plumes of high-salinity water descending from the surface. These plumes then form into a closed polygonal network of downwelling vertical sheets that surround patches of upwelling fluid.</p><p id="d5e129" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">This network of convection rolls, Lasser says, drives the formation of the salt ridges. In the interior of each convection cell, where low-salinity water flows upward, the salt crust grows more slowly because it is in contact with less-salty water. In contrast, at the cell boundaries located directly above the downwelling sheets, a higher flux of salt flows upward into the crust. As a result, narrow ridges grow rapidly and build the polygonal network pattern.</p><p id="d5e131" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">To test this model, Lasser and her colleagues used detailed simulations of the fluid dynamics model and compared these with observations from field sites, including Death Valley. Excavating beneath the ridge pattern, they found evidence of salty, down-flowing plumes, exactly as predicted, with fresher water flowing upward in the flat centers of the polygons. Overall, the researchers found that their model could explain not only the basic emergent patterns, but also the key length scales—the widths of both the convective cells and the salt ridges.</p><p id="d5e133" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“This research presents compelling evidence that salt polygons are the surface signature of this convection mechanism,” says mathematician Duncan Hewitt of University College London. “It’s a rather beautiful result, which provides a potential explanation for a widely observed geological pattern.”</p><p id="d5e133" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3294d8; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;"> license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society.</span></p><p id="d5e133" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> ************************************************* </span></p><p id="d5e133" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It seems to me that we can apply this type of projection to all manner of emanations from unseen toruses "under the surface." As you know, <i>A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything</i> proposes that there is an unseen torus associated with all projections of matter in our universe. I see this polygonal shape in leaves and skin cells. Couldn't we use this same analysis to explain their shapes, as well?</span></p><p id="d5e133" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcx45CE4t81xkwNizAiNM7rUny3TsZT_aSWAb6alp9GsYpHeDHj-U-sdw9vKgKww3HPO-5jsjGQxsnfG961b4w9-qise4k23gU-BUXGGHBxMyx30u4cEgK3G48B8whwk6rggJ5u8yb55B1zaITy6egJN2TE-mLIjx_hcx9biVBWfEHJzUVXMEw40-JVA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="302" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcx45CE4t81xkwNizAiNM7rUny3TsZT_aSWAb6alp9GsYpHeDHj-U-sdw9vKgKww3HPO-5jsjGQxsnfG961b4w9-qise4k23gU-BUXGGHBxMyx30u4cEgK3G48B8whwk6rggJ5u8yb55B1zaITy6egJN2TE-mLIjx_hcx9biVBWfEHJzUVXMEw40-JVA" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuSStokLCFUn2-j4axSkE5LLhX_vKOJQQuJRfKlFjHpgDqv40C3n9BH4LD8eAPhEfgdLxroNhS2OBajeQFiYWchycbFZg7Cv8fGeOpMKocENpJCmuYe9wahcCvyFNz-qfgluEmYYJO2h3gjs1ZLfWsqHC7NfxKwbYo4NczpHj4cyjXzADPMqJUdM-jQg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="144" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuSStokLCFUn2-j4axSkE5LLhX_vKOJQQuJRfKlFjHpgDqv40C3n9BH4LD8eAPhEfgdLxroNhS2OBajeQFiYWchycbFZg7Cv8fGeOpMKocENpJCmuYe9wahcCvyFNz-qfgluEmYYJO2h3gjs1ZLfWsqHC7NfxKwbYo4NczpHj4cyjXzADPMqJUdM-jQg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-25003907677654902642022-12-24T07:21:00.001-08:002022-12-24T07:21:12.180-08:00Large to Small vs. Small to Large--Relativity, Quantum Theory, Wormholes, and Toruses<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">I recently watched a good, short documentary put out by Aeon concerning a breakthrough physics experiment using the google quantum computer located in Santa Barbara. These physicists have successfully run a computer model of a quantum wormhole that fits the physics of quantum and relativity. This is the first time the scientists have been able to hit upon a method to bridge the difference between the worlds of quantum and relativity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's the link to the documentary:</span><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/the-tangled-tale-of-how-physicists-built-a-groundbreaking-wormhole-in-a-lab"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab | Aeon Videos</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was talking this over with my brother and noted that it reminds me of how in the physics of A Simple Explanation, the journey upward from the very small looks quite different than the journey from the very large down to the very small. In this way, the Simple Explanation physics resembles the difficulty of describing quantum physics and relativity physics within the same math system. I'll explain in the hopes that someone will see the parallels and be able to apply them to the reconciliation of the very small and the very large.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In my Simple Explanation physics, the smallest objects that boil up out of the quantum foam link up to stabilze matter by reaching out to their neighbors and "holding hands." Every object in our universe above the level of quantum chaos, uses what I call the Simple Golden Rule to reach out to neighbors, hold hands, sharing information, physical assistance, and focus on a single, central point to "level up" to the next larger type of matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thus, sub-atomic particles join together to form the next level up--atoms. Atoms join together to form the next level up--molecules. Molecules join together to form the next level up--elements. All dead matter in our universe is formed from an uninterrupted joining and leveling up. Matter is in this sense hierarchical and proceeds upward in "the higher the fewer" process. There are less atoms than sub-atoms; there are fewer molecules than atoms; there are fewer elements than atoms. The hierarchical structure of these objects appears in pyramidal form, the natural outcome of "the higher the fewer."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Living entities also appear to follow this "higher the fewer" hierarchical pattern, as living cells join together to form creatures; creatures work together to form families and communities; communities work together to form societies and nations; and nations work together to perform global agendas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The ultimate pinnacle of the hierarchical arrangements is always toward a singular "one." This is a geometrical certainty. This is because the focus that brings coherence to each level is at the center of those who are "holding hands" in the manner of the Simple Golden Rule. If the focus is not on the center, then the group will be ineffective and will not be able to level up to form a new creation.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggJ1XLM8flLPHR3IOKAdqqvSudtAo0qVa53INirr1pFJbw9KnE9PJFeQyrtd2A5u6pqHnR_5ZjURS8bNuUHR9qkk4uzN9SuETw1ziVGCThhG0Kx3fod7-0MX2O5YZ3xneaBIu6EjdeTU5Pt-7fPi7qvGsKL8Kr4qDMWbZlEl0eweQM9iamvpPpI0kKgw/s901/basic_hierarchy_w_forceknots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="901" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggJ1XLM8flLPHR3IOKAdqqvSudtAo0qVa53INirr1pFJbw9KnE9PJFeQyrtd2A5u6pqHnR_5ZjURS8bNuUHR9qkk4uzN9SuETw1ziVGCThhG0Kx3fod7-0MX2O5YZ3xneaBIu6EjdeTU5Pt-7fPi7qvGsKL8Kr4qDMWbZlEl0eweQM9iamvpPpI0kKgw/w400-h261/basic_hierarchy_w_forceknots.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, you can see that the Simple Explanation physics employs the same organizational mechanism from the very small on up through the largest large--the One.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The mechanism is different when we proceed in the other direction, from the very large down to the very small. That process is not hierarchical. That process is toroidal. Coherence in the large to small direction comes about through centering on a common zero point field at the middle of all nested toruses. In this direction, it is consciousness rather than matter that drives one down through successive levels surrounding the One, via centering and "falling back."</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_iB1wNP4y2JEtAyw-Y0AbtCrJ2jY6SOaVsfWXywmK3XfKNNfKQQ2JR1jGBHa0S7DOdWAHsMxdijVo0pc0KvmvHF5NnOj6XtD4n0USZxc5y0vMiM8AeJOy27AromAbCpY9VAPF5icYD1sk3Gzn-SnXVafDFahuboBlnqCBfP9QzFbtUew2Jwe90qRTA/s327/heart_torus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="327" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_iB1wNP4y2JEtAyw-Y0AbtCrJ2jY6SOaVsfWXywmK3XfKNNfKQQ2JR1jGBHa0S7DOdWAHsMxdijVo0pc0KvmvHF5NnOj6XtD4n0USZxc5y0vMiM8AeJOy27AromAbCpY9VAPF5icYD1sk3Gzn-SnXVafDFahuboBlnqCBfP9QzFbtUew2Jwe90qRTA/s320/heart_torus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Quoting from p. 25 of A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, "Within my body, all of my aggregated units of consciousness drill fractally "backward," smaller and smaller, toward the zero-point field at our shared core. Whereas my Self unit of consciousness may appear a long way off from God, especially if I conceive of God outside the very large, if I instead turn inward and "fall back," I am as near to God as the center point of all of my body's myriad units of consciousness."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The reconciliation of these two processes, one hierarchical and one toroidal, one going upward to large and one going back and into the small, is their shared destination at the One. In both models, the geometry of the process ultimately demands arrival at a singular point of consciousness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Simple Explanation is based upon the premise that consciousness not only preceeds material instantiation, but consciousness is the only form of existence. All else is an illusion. Even conventional physics realizes that the closer you look, the less matter appears until all is eventually vibrational. This is why I would say that conventional physics is on the wrong path when it comes to their search for the ultimate reality of material existence. They will not find the smallest material quanta upon which all else is constructed. The smallest is not material, but a representation of the One consciousness that underlies everything.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is possible that the wormhole observed by the google quantum computer that seemingly bridges the physics of quanta and relativity is none other than the toroidal vortex falling backward from larger to smaller. What they will ultimately discover at the center of the donut is consciousness itself. This, then, will present not only a bridge between quantum physics and relativity, but also a bridge between science and religion. For, what other word is there for the ground state of consciousness than God the Father?</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-50519336927060565992022-11-20T07:38:00.001-08:002022-11-20T07:38:15.672-08:00A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything Squashed by Censorship<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Greetings, Simple Explanation Followers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope you are doing well in these uncertain times. The Great Reset continues.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The reason I haven't been posting very often lately is because most of my efforts have been going into my weekly podcast called <a href="https://gnosticinsights.com" target="_blank">Gnostic Insights</a>. You can find my podcast at most podcast hosts, as well as on my homepage of https://gnosticinsights.com</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just to bring you up to date, I've been locked out as moderator of this blog for a couple of years now, due to a number of "fact checked" articles of mine. As we can all see by now, divergent thinking is officially banned in what used to be the United States of America. Fortunately, I can access the blog through my other blogspot,<a href="https://newgnosticgospel.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> New Gnostic Gospel. </a> Without that backdoor access, A Simple Explanation would have died of "the virus." As it is, you cannot find A Simple Explanation blog using a search engine. I tried this morning, and it is nowhere to be found. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fortunately, their censorship and shadow-banning has not extended into my books. You can find many pages of results for the A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything book. Again, unfortunately, most of these results appear to be rip-offs that redirect the seeker to unauthorized publishers and copies of the book. I get no royalties from these unauthorized copies. This goes a long way in explaining why my book's sales figures are so low.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the other hand, I am pleased that my Simple Explanation Theory of Everything is gaining traction in other people's research and articles, although without acknowledgement or citations. I notice much more talk of fractal levels of consciousness and the phrase I coined, "units of consciousness." Images of toruses are easy to find nowadays. Remember, when this Simple Explanation first started, about 15 years ago, there were zero images of toruses online. My early chalk drawings of toroidal flow were among the first images posted online. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ARCfpXOKAgDeC__BDTcuKbCQ0ipvEt2NT5KeAOgnwfhy-A2HnMN68SJw72Jx6lyKH04P6K_tusYwBlA0tC7-kaDoteRkiVX30Cdh7ppkpT6bFQigxyXUC79jOpfTKwEH-ZNdPdqx1Fkg7UwMk19R3w9kpJKWNmswpokCCFd9r8e_W9Rvrkm_mskxcQ/s1600/torus_chalk_slice.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="1600" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ARCfpXOKAgDeC__BDTcuKbCQ0ipvEt2NT5KeAOgnwfhy-A2HnMN68SJw72Jx6lyKH04P6K_tusYwBlA0tC7-kaDoteRkiVX30Cdh7ppkpT6bFQigxyXUC79jOpfTKwEH-ZNdPdqx1Fkg7UwMk19R3w9kpJKWNmswpokCCFd9r8e_W9Rvrkm_mskxcQ/s320/torus_chalk_slice.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO6EeCTLa-OZv1JagNS7ajfRdPB4fEISP00hjrykg2gMH6OAYmTKDYMGK0Enbc2S0vCUChxYi9-JZuZCcGw1UCnTS52nRvxLyAb6YQqnhMl4e5SWNw5_g31Xi966zR6rKHz4l_VFuScOnj5PZuTIdp2Ik-BTXHRhEbjHT9PVIVo8x3nFQtwhgQCD4AQ/s1558/COHERENCE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1558" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgO6EeCTLa-OZv1JagNS7ajfRdPB4fEISP00hjrykg2gMH6OAYmTKDYMGK0Enbc2S0vCUChxYi9-JZuZCcGw1UCnTS52nRvxLyAb6YQqnhMl4e5SWNw5_g31Xi966zR6rKHz4l_VFuScOnj5PZuTIdp2Ik-BTXHRhEbjHT9PVIVo8x3nFQtwhgQCD4AQ/s320/COHERENCE.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAsDcgQr8M_vcqRHhAGONUn5dR3Xu-JwxEWdJ42ACG_E1aVSpnWnJm_W2QBb4jW-3P2agqKrth61xQJlpSWb0UUYXu3sw0x9SRO9Bl0smmttT94zfIkeyVUkw-nCimpZLiIoz7uUsxsuUTUak8WrVWUa18G7mGDIQkazP7fDoTL0CkT_pu31eZrwcBA/s1600/karmadiagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="1600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAsDcgQr8M_vcqRHhAGONUn5dR3Xu-JwxEWdJ42ACG_E1aVSpnWnJm_W2QBb4jW-3P2agqKrth61xQJlpSWb0UUYXu3sw0x9SRO9Bl0smmttT94zfIkeyVUkw-nCimpZLiIoz7uUsxsuUTUak8WrVWUa18G7mGDIQkazP7fDoTL0CkT_pu31eZrwcBA/s320/karmadiagram.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/p/simple-explanation-bookstore.html" target="_blank">If you are interested in reading my original book, please purchase it through the links provided in this blog.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My latest Gnostic research and book folds the Simple Explanation into Gnosticism in order to explain otherwise inscrutable concepts from ancient Gnostic manuscripts. It works splendidly. The next book will be out soon. It is to be called <a href="https://gnosticinsights.com/a-simple-explanation-of-the-gnostic-gospel/" target="_blank"><b>"A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel." I have been writing it publicly online as weekly episodes of my Gnostic Insights podcast. You can read it chapter by chapter at the Gnostic Insights website. </b></a>Those of you with a math and science bent that did not follow me over to the Gnostic side can now approach the Gnostic material with confidence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">cyd</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-56107846149777670912022-07-27T14:19:00.013-07:002022-08-31T05:26:29.393-07:00Fractal Torus, Fractal Flowers<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been awhile since I shared with you a fractal flower. I am always struck by the toroidal nature of these flowers when I see them on my dog walks. I snapped this picture on my iPhone; sorry about the poor resolution.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mui3daxIX7v-EzumIUWg2AoWDoa9G64GfhxrMk7mE2bbgcve38ABvCQkvdo1rakHg6ZGMWPuaJ61tubocrMTqOABMCKTKSO2oiUwuaTkPUERRRGc4TY1TlWEEE9glI1k6l922ZjcgF7T6iIzcAXjF6r6flGh_rPpooRcbf1K2cj0cE5gImWX8XVAjA/s4032/fractal%20flower%20a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-mui3daxIX7v-EzumIUWg2AoWDoa9G64GfhxrMk7mE2bbgcve38ABvCQkvdo1rakHg6ZGMWPuaJ61tubocrMTqOABMCKTKSO2oiUwuaTkPUERRRGc4TY1TlWEEE9glI1k6l922ZjcgF7T6iIzcAXjF6r6flGh_rPpooRcbf1K2cj0cE5gImWX8XVAjA/s320/fractal%20flower%20a.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyUBL9mei5FPnbkjx03rB4HLiLo7l42RokS5Zhi4iYZNWkA27844s_Ienv8fYVvP_s0N4Ez4L7IVdzAZMKjjLlfN6elMPksssW72mCq6q4KGqMe6W7Yj9KRsJYyP4xcEbsbDC_UsWS-tPvfmsmzcL3HZbli89wYoYCacyyTI0tQzpmDAAqzooEbuaFA/s4032/fractal%20flowers%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyUBL9mei5FPnbkjx03rB4HLiLo7l42RokS5Zhi4iYZNWkA27844s_Ienv8fYVvP_s0N4Ez4L7IVdzAZMKjjLlfN6elMPksssW72mCq6q4KGqMe6W7Yj9KRsJYyP4xcEbsbDC_UsWS-tPvfmsmzcL3HZbli89wYoYCacyyTI0tQzpmDAAqzooEbuaFA/s320/fractal%20flowers%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the group of flowers above, you can see both toruses and fractals at various stages of manifestation. Let's look closer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeW5MIWa0tqoiQIdqtr1Sj1oMCm4xvRQ6G-ZH-JwS8fn5tdRmMg9TamITukfhOf4iidFgfmuGRYlG_T89Pjxq_xIJ2se8wyLNYiFdiG24KGpRBPbGCBCp2sUjsvR5ootEzVDtISVZb3hTWHqiP89g7OdTUaqyV8ONjmgs1HjUcwpQp33bKcvMOk0mMg/s272/fractal%20flower%20torus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="272" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeW5MIWa0tqoiQIdqtr1Sj1oMCm4xvRQ6G-ZH-JwS8fn5tdRmMg9TamITukfhOf4iidFgfmuGRYlG_T89Pjxq_xIJ2se8wyLNYiFdiG24KGpRBPbGCBCp2sUjsvR5ootEzVDtISVZb3hTWHqiP89g7OdTUaqyV8ONjmgs1HjUcwpQp33bKcvMOk0mMg/s1600/fractal%20flower%20torus.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the flower begins to emerge, it unfurls from a torus shape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yNzivgAgoAOhSWa1kfNNd7Zdkmnrw4fiPGWYg2Jjt9YGAm0PZo0bX8nQxaksPUr5mvLzEOIqkosPCNpicqnn0MQi9ETbL6bULjgVgMOdwsMhThUKRDDTaTsS2QnwU77-Y7YUD_f9VV2nwqlWGiT5mET7-OScdT93JEf96T4C3ix71WOsjuuH2CY1lg/s104/horn_torus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="86" data-original-width="104" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yNzivgAgoAOhSWa1kfNNd7Zdkmnrw4fiPGWYg2Jjt9YGAm0PZo0bX8nQxaksPUr5mvLzEOIqkosPCNpicqnn0MQi9ETbL6bULjgVgMOdwsMhThUKRDDTaTsS2QnwU77-Y7YUD_f9VV2nwqlWGiT5mET7-OScdT93JEf96T4C3ix71WOsjuuH2CY1lg/s1600/horn_torus.jpg" width="104" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj8RyIYWOL17ir_BFA1GaTHgb2-5N64uEeGG43Hvffh_pqbRZhbPq3iLn7RTHH04Xh9OEEcNcq-4-3KDwUecWCxce7PA8bqpKwwjqsQkGxcmrN0JX685kmczT9HZrxLY7S9ocKm_kbmipwM5Qko6ZxwVRuTwyiufXI42CT1Rju4jlrxthlewR6CswiA/s361/fractal%20flower%20torus%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="358" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj8RyIYWOL17ir_BFA1GaTHgb2-5N64uEeGG43Hvffh_pqbRZhbPq3iLn7RTHH04Xh9OEEcNcq-4-3KDwUecWCxce7PA8bqpKwwjqsQkGxcmrN0JX685kmczT9HZrxLY7S9ocKm_kbmipwM5Qko6ZxwVRuTwyiufXI42CT1Rju4jlrxthlewR6CswiA/s320/fractal%20flower%20torus%202.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As the bud begins to open, you can see the torus walls and center. You can also see that its walls are composed of the fractals that will make up the bud cluster.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-VYq4ADy1cyFHsKuBdHNrcBCvMz_Z4oTlUrs10Ro5XFeHpFZQK1asY8FTXKQjL_rNtn7xBEGTEc1wrBewbcQa6jzlC_AIO8xb1T_GiAN3FWp-kDbh-Tuvc9eGpJilJQZ2qB_5QVgxMNnApen0cUHyVoi_uhqlJCCR0ASfbajsYgmKHlqs2Dmf1FRfQ/s451/fractal%20flower%20torus%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="437" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-VYq4ADy1cyFHsKuBdHNrcBCvMz_Z4oTlUrs10Ro5XFeHpFZQK1asY8FTXKQjL_rNtn7xBEGTEc1wrBewbcQa6jzlC_AIO8xb1T_GiAN3FWp-kDbh-Tuvc9eGpJilJQZ2qB_5QVgxMNnApen0cUHyVoi_uhqlJCCR0ASfbajsYgmKHlqs2Dmf1FRfQ/s320/fractal%20flower%20torus%203.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The more the bud opens, the less it looks like a torus as it begins to flatten out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8key7r0YMhRU9H9r75pB63Qrk2YXBjCpY98-KHcjWLmnYbbBITjs5j9MdE8HONRxa8XTNe2FZtP4RrKDY48tEIzBwzV9dNA6PcL2hlckCcRp_qBbkmj-f_5EDijY8L8zmwpnROoVntSmSNMK0n1wPZHsiZXtn3OZkucXdRepufeyZ0TMiVFTAB9Qrag/s788/fractal%20flower%20torus%20unfurls.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="753" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8key7r0YMhRU9H9r75pB63Qrk2YXBjCpY98-KHcjWLmnYbbBITjs5j9MdE8HONRxa8XTNe2FZtP4RrKDY48tEIzBwzV9dNA6PcL2hlckCcRp_qBbkmj-f_5EDijY8L8zmwpnROoVntSmSNMK0n1wPZHsiZXtn3OZkucXdRepufeyZ0TMiVFTAB9Qrag/s320/fractal%20flower%20torus%20unfurls.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At last the torus is replaced by the fractal flowers. You can see that this one toroidal bud has produced a fractal pattern of smaller buds that look like the mother bud. And inside of those smaller buds are another iteration of the flower bud pattern. If we look even closer, we would discover that the smallest flower heads are themselves also made of smaller flower heads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So what we have here, in this simple plant, is a fractal pattern of at least four iterations. It reminds me of this fractal formula:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5zpva0T2QcZSJWe24ULZB6OtJl4fodXXODHe7lSVtBjoeTEw4zTxiMU3oXYKhWxRn1ofS-hkMh0sxg7D1GGKT3NmIdriQ-rFkiPZCHlhsJGKIIWFOT2vWMooem_eIxPqXJCWWIktM4eaxR4ahcFyYqdIGvcR1kjUPEVJFs2zNFsMNg5dx43INjd4SJg/s400/fractal%20benice%20equation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5zpva0T2QcZSJWe24ULZB6OtJl4fodXXODHe7lSVtBjoeTEw4zTxiMU3oXYKhWxRn1ofS-hkMh0sxg7D1GGKT3NmIdriQ-rFkiPZCHlhsJGKIIWFOT2vWMooem_eIxPqXJCWWIktM4eaxR4ahcFyYqdIGvcR1kjUPEVJFs2zNFsMNg5dx43INjd4SJg/s320/fractal%20benice%20equation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNx2QPPs-g7sBTgP0uGlrxui0YwTy2ySXzgETDWmaigDCQUx7Kl7fcy9XznYPPOr17aP5ixkIjO4S7UcCed-e6mYI5Su1d8nSpVxR6ZHrR0HiT1EysDxw482TnVs4UeL-23gu7vD1l2ZVjVRMGDUeswN4gyvTpT0CrgLxoqd4OTQYJsSuvZm_wAIzIIg/s4032/fractal%20flower%20b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNx2QPPs-g7sBTgP0uGlrxui0YwTy2ySXzgETDWmaigDCQUx7Kl7fcy9XznYPPOr17aP5ixkIjO4S7UcCed-e6mYI5Su1d8nSpVxR6ZHrR0HiT1EysDxw482TnVs4UeL-23gu7vD1l2ZVjVRMGDUeswN4gyvTpT0CrgLxoqd4OTQYJsSuvZm_wAIzIIg/s320/fractal%20flower%20b.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-24560292125157476222022-07-14T06:58:00.005-07:002022-07-14T06:58:52.308-07:00A Simple Explanation of Consciousness and Time: Our Cherry-Jello Universe<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been a very long time since I developed any new concepts to add to A Simple Explanation, spending the past couple of years concentrating instead on the <a href="https://gnosticinsights.com" target="_blank">Gnostic Gospel</a>. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">So my longtime readers may be very happy to see this new posting featuring the torus, consciousness, and Jello? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yesterday my brother and I were musing over the nature of time--what is it exactly? It isn't a <i>thing</i>, it is nowhere to be located. Is it therefore a <i>force</i>? This was my response. I have long thought of the universe in this fashion, but I've never written it down or even shared it with my brother until yesterday. He flipped out over it. Let's see what you think...</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Giant Bowl of
Jello<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is how I picture time, space, and consciousness —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">We live in a Jello universe--a gigantic, torus-shaped, bowl
of gelatin, studded with an infinite number of cherries. </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Jello is the matrix that holds everything that ever was or will be.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The cherries are every thing that ever were or will be--all potential events, all potential objects. An infinite array of cherries already laid out as potential.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Consciousness is each spark of life making its way through this vast ocean of Jello.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Time can only be apprehended through consciousness; time is
nowhere to be found if there is no observer.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The cherries are the full panoply of choices we could make
along the way.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our free will chooses to swim this way and that as it moves toward
the next cherry of choice. This free will is swimming from the middle of the
torus in the direction of the outside boundary of the giant torus. All of these
cherries are being held within the shape of the torus—the doughy part of the
donut.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every lifetime is the trace of the worm-like path our
consciousness chooses as it travels through the universe of cherries.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">In a real sense, the entirety of all of our lives is already conceived in potential. It is our self-awareness and free will that plod along at the speed of matter as we live our lives out as a linearity of passing time.</span></li></ul></h4><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My brother, the professor of Philosophy, notes that this way
of looking at time and consciousness may have just solved one of the longstanding
conundrums of philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is,<i>
how can we reconcile the concept of an all-knowing God if we subjects have free
will? </i>The answer presented by this model is that the all-knowing God has pre-placed all possible choices before us, but it is our individual free will that plots the course through these choices. This combination of potential versus choice reflects our free will.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://newgnosticgospel.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-way-of-thinking-about-time.html" target="_blank">I'm posting a second version of this article over at my Gnostic blog, which further describes this Jello universe in Gnostic terms. If you are curious, you can head over there now.</a></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4kc6B-ipm7o49eKVvq7yBKJwBjiP0Pl9GNiNLOo8xzR3uYc5zT_Lula04pf3a1A14yvqQAlSqNlLGzK4namrgmDtMnhKjPBa9SaZ32HOVFnvTAGAHv4HVnarIKceacSJlzjSG51v-qic4kS7B_d1EFudPnnLWsi6SPdAd7LDwAFrFyEjMSYjDVsFog/s890/jello%20universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="890" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4kc6B-ipm7o49eKVvq7yBKJwBjiP0Pl9GNiNLOo8xzR3uYc5zT_Lula04pf3a1A14yvqQAlSqNlLGzK4namrgmDtMnhKjPBa9SaZ32HOVFnvTAGAHv4HVnarIKceacSJlzjSG51v-qic4kS7B_d1EFudPnnLWsi6SPdAd7LDwAFrFyEjMSYjDVsFog/s320/jello%20universe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Of course, the Jello salad pictured above is not to scale. The gelatin donut would be infinitely large, and the cherries relatively small.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-56135456661590595252022-05-23T07:42:00.002-07:002022-05-23T07:42:38.079-07:00Latest Science Journal Article on You Know What...<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Greetings, Simple Explanation followers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I haven't been posting much during this age of dissolution and disease. I've been advised not to bring attention to this Simple Explanation website for fear of being singled out for exclusion from the media herd. Thankfully, the powers that be don't get too excited about toruses and abstract articles on consciousness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But the truth of the situation is slowly leaking out. Thankfully, I do not carry the burden of revealing the errors and lies that are so prevalent now in our medical and social control mechanisms. the article below was published in a reputable medical journal--good for them!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'd like to remind you that my Ph.D. field of expertise just happens to be the rhetoric of conventional vs. alternative medical and scientific ideologies. I do have lots to say on the subject, if I were unbridled. Meanwhile, here's an excellent journal article concerning the pandemic and its interventions and lack thereof. Let's hope the bots don't take it/me down for this...</span></p><p>Surgical Neurology International • 2022 • 13(167) | 1 is is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others
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Editorial </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>COVID UPDATE: What is the truth? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Russell L. Blaylock
Retired Neurosurgeon, Theoretical Neuroscience Research, LLC, Ridgeland, Mississippi, United States.
E-mail: *Russell L. Blaylock - Blay6307@gmail.com </b></span></p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history,
characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical
associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3,6,57] We have witnessed a
long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts,
destruction of medical careers among doctors refusing to participate in killing their patients and
a massive regimentation of health care, led by non-qualified individuals with enormous wealth,
power and influence.
For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators
and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically
based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms
of care and “prevention”—including remdesivir, use of respirators and ultimately a series of
essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines. For the first time in history medical treatment,
protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest
number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated
a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state
public health officers and hospital administrators.[23,38] </p><p>The media (TV, newspapers, magazines, etc), medical societies, state medical boards and the
owners of social media have appointed themselves to be the sole source of information concerning
this so-called “pandemic”. Websites have been removed, highly credentialed and experienced
clinical doctors and scientific experts in the field of infectious diseases have been demonized,
careers have been destroyed and all dissenting information has been labeled “misinformation”
and “dangerous lies”, even when sourced from top experts in the fields of virology, infectious
diseases, pulmonary critical care, and epidemiology. These blackouts of truth occur even when
this information is backed by extensive scientific citations from some of the most qualified
medical specialists in the world.[23] </p><p>Incredibly, even individuals, such as Dr. Michael Yeadon, a
retired ex-Chief Scientist, and vice-president for the science division of Pfizer Pharmaceutical
company in the UK, who charged the company with making an extremely dangerous vaccine, is
ignored and demonized. Further, he, along with other highly qualified scientists have stated that
no one should take this vaccine.
Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most cited experts in his field, who has successfully treated
over 2000 COVID patients by using a protocol of early treatment (which the so-called experts
completely ignored), has been the victim of a particularly vicious assault by those benefiting
financially from the vaccines. He has published his results in peer reviewed journals, reporting
an 80% reduction in hospitalizations and a 75% reduction in deaths by using early treatment.
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SNI: Infection Editor
Ali Akhaddar, MD, IFAANS
Avicenne Military Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco Open Access
*Corresponding author:
Russell L. Blaylock,
Theoretical Neuroscience
Research, LLC, Ridgeland,
Mississippi, United States.
Blay6307@gmail.com
Received : 06 February 2022
Accepted : 11 February 2022
Published : 22 April 2022
DOI
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[44] </p><p>Despite this, he is under an unrelenting series of attacks
by the information controllers, none of which have treated a
single patient.
Neither Anthony Fauci, the CDC, WHO nor any medical
governmental establishment has ever offered any early
treatment other than Tylenol, hydration and call an
ambulance once you have difficulty breathing. This is
unprecedented in the entire history of medical care as
early treatment of infections is critical to saving lives and
preventing severe complications. Not only have these medical
organizations and federal lapdogs not even suggested early
treatment, they attacked anyone who attempted to initiate
such treatment with all the weapons at their disposal—loss of
license, removal of hospital privileges, shaming, destruction
of reputations and even arrest.[2] </p><p>A good example of this outrage against freedom of speech
and providing informed consent information is the recent
suspension by the medical board in Maine of Dr. Meryl
Nass’ medical license and the ordering of her to undergo a
psychiatric evaluation for prescribing Ivermectin and sharing
her expertise in this field.[9,65] I know Dr, Nass personally and
can vouch for her integrity, brilliance and dedication to truth.
Her scientific credentials are impeccable. This behavior by a
medical licensing board is reminiscent of the methodology
of the Soviet KGB during the period when dissidents were
incarcerated in psychiatric gulags to silence their dissent. </p><p>OTHER UNPRECEDENTED ATTACKS
Another unprecedented tactic is to remove dissenting
doctors from their positions as journal editors, reviewers and
retracting of their scientific papers from journals, even after
these papers have been in print. Until this pandemic event,
I have never seen so many journal papers being retracted—
the vast majority promoting alternatives to official dogma,
especially if the papers question vaccine safety. Normally a
submitted paper or study is reviewed by experts in the field,
called peer review. These reviews can be quite intense and nit
picking in detail, insisting that all errors within the paper be
corrected before publication. So, unless fraud or some other
major hidden problem is discovered after the paper is in
print, the paper remains in the scientific literature.
We are now witnessing a growing number of excellent
scientific papers, written by top experts in the field, being
retracted from major medical and scientific journals weeks,
months and even years after publication. A careful review
indicates that in far too many instances the authors dared
question accepted dogma by the controllers of scientific
publications—especially concerning the safety, alternative
treatments or efficacy of vaccines.[12,63] </p><p>These journals rely on
extensive adverting by pharmaceutical companies for their
revenue. Several instances have occurred where powerful
pharmaceutical companies exerted their influence on owners
of these journals to remove articles that in any way question
these companies’ products.[13,34,35]
Worse still is the actual designing of medical articles for
promoting drugs and pharmaceutical products that involve
fake studies, so-called ghostwritten articles.[49,64] </p><p>Richard
Horton is quoted by the Guardian as saying “journals
have devolved into information laundering operations
for the pharmaceutical industry.”[13,63] Proven fraudulent
“ghostwritten” articles sponsored by pharmaceutical giants
have appeared regularly in top clinical journals, such as
JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine—never to be
removed despite proven scientific abuse and manipulation
of data.[49,63]
Ghostwritten articles involve using planning companies
whose job it is to design articles containing manipulated data
to support a pharmaceutical product and then have these
articles accepted by high-impact clinical journals, that is,
the journals most likely to affect clinical decision making of
doctors. Further, they supply doctors in clinical practice with
free reprints of these manipulated articles. The Guardian
found 250 companies engaged in this ghostwriting business.
The final step in designing these articles for publication in
the most prestigious journals is to recruit well recognized
medical experts from prestigious institutions, to add their
name to these articles. These recruited medical authors are
either paid upon agreeing to add their name to these pre written articles or they do so for the prestige of having their
name on an article in a prestigious medical journal.[11] </p><p>Of vital importance is the observation by experts in the field
of medical publishing that nothing has been done to stop
this abuse. Medical ethicists have lamented that because
of this widespread practice “you can’t trust anything.”
While some journals insist on disclosure information,
most doctors reading these articles ignore this information
or excuse it and several journals make disclosure more
difficult by requiring the reader to find the disclosure
statements at another location. Many journals do not police
such statements and omissions by authors are common and
without punishment.
As concerns the information made available to the
public, virtually all the media is under the control of these
pharmaceutical giants or others who are benefitting from
this “pandemic”. Their stories are all the same, both in
content and even wording. Orchestrated coverups occur
daily and massive data exposing the lies being generated by
these information controllers are hidden from the public.
All data coming over the national media (TV, newspaper
and magazines), as well as the local news you watch every
day, comes only from “official” sources—most of which are
lies, distortions or completely manufactured out of whole
cloth—all aimed to deceive the public.
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Television media receives the majority of its advertising budget
from the international pharmaceutical companies—this
creates an irresistible influence to report all concocted studies
supporting their vaccines and other so-called treatments.[14]
In 2020 alone the pharmaceutical industries spent 6.56 billion
dollars on such advertising.[13,14] Pharma TV advertising
amounted to 4.58 billion, an incredible 75% of their budget.
That buys a lot of influence and control over the media.
World famous experts within all fields of infectious diseases
are excluded from media exposure and from social media
should they in any way deviate against the concocted lies and
distortions by the makers of these vaccines. In addition, these
pharmaceutical companies spend tens of millions on social
media advertising, with Pfizer leading the pack with $55
million in 2020.[14] </p><p>While these attacks on free speech are terrifying enough, even
worse is the virtually universal control hospital administrators
have exercised over the details of medical care in hospitals.
These hirelings are now instructing doctors which treatment
protocols they will adhere to and which treatments they will
not use, no matter how harmful the “approved” treatments
are or how beneficial the “unapproved” treatments are.[33,57]
Never in the history of American medicine have hospital
administrators dictated to its physicians how they will
practice medicine and what medications they can use. The
CDC has no authority to dictate to hospitals or doctors
concerning medical treatments. Yet, most physicians
complied without the slightest resistance.
The federal Care Act encouraged this human disaster by
offering all US hospitals up to 39,000 dollars for each ICU
patient they put on respirators, despite the fact that early on it
was obvious that the respirators were a major cause of death
among these unsuspecting, trusting patients. In addition,
the hospitals received 12,000 dollars for each patient that
was admitted to the ICU—explaining, in my opinion and
others, why all federal medical bureaucracies (CDC, FDA,
NIAID, NIH, etc) did all in their power to prevent life saving early treatments.[46] Letting patients deteriorate to the
point they needed hospitalization, meant big money for all
hospitals. A growing number of hospitals are in danger of
bankruptcy, and many have closed their doors, even before
this “pandemic”.[50] Most of these hospitals are now owned
by national or international corporations, including teaching
hospitals.[10]
It is also interesting to note that with the arrival of this
“pandemic” we have witnessed a surge in hospital corporate
chains buying up a number of these financially at-risk
hospitals.[1,54] </p><p>It has been noted that billions in Federal Covid
aid is being used by these hospital giants to acquire these
financially endangered hospitals, further increasing the
power of corporate medicine over physician independence.
Physicians expelled from their hospitals are finding it difficult
to find other hospitals staffs to join since they too may be
owned by the same corporate giant. As a result, vaccine
mandate policies include far larger numbers of hospital
employees. For example, Mayo Clinic fired 700 employees
for exercising their right to refuse a dangerous, essentially
untested experimental vaccine.[51,57] Mayo Clinic did this
despite the fact that many of these employees worked during
the worst of the epidemic and are being fired when the
Omicron variant is the dominant strain of the virus, has the
pathogenicity of a common cold for most and the vaccines
are ineffective in preventing the infection.
In addition, it has been proven that the vaccinated
asymptomatic person has a nasopharyngeal titer of the virus
as high as an infected unvaccinated person. If the purpose
of the vaccine mandate is to prevent viral spread among
the hospital staff and patients, then it is the vaccinated
who present the greatest risk of transmission, not the
unvaccinated. The difference is that a sick unvaccinated
person would not go to work, the asymptomatic vaccinated
spreader will.
What we do know is that major medical centers, such as
Mayo Clinic, receive tens of millions of dollars in NIH grants
each year as well as monies from the pharmaceutical makers
of these experimental “vaccines”. </p><p>In my view, that is the real
consideration driving these policies. If this could be proven
in a court of law the administrators making these mandates
should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and sued
by all injured parties.
The hospital bankruptcy problem has grown increasingly
acute due to hospitals vaccine mandates and resulting
large number of hospitals staff, especially nurses, refusing
to be forcibly vaccinated.[17,51] This is all unprecedented in
the history of medical care. Doctors within hospitals are
responsible for the treatment of their individual patients and
work directly with these patients and their families to initiate
these treatments. Outside organizations, such as the CDC,
have no authority to intervene in these treatments and to do
so exposes the patients to grave errors by an organization
that has never treated a single COVID-19 patient.
When this pandemic started, hospitals were ordered by
the CDC to follow a treatment protocol that resulted in
the deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients, most of
whom would have recovered had proper treatments been
allowed.[43,44] The majority of these deaths could have been
prevented had doctors been allowed to use early treatment
with such products as Ivermectin, hydroxy-chloroquine and
a number of other safe drugs and natural compounds. </p><p>It has
been estimated, based on results by physicians treating the
most covid patients successfully, that of the 800,000 people
that we are told died from Covid, 640,000 could have not only
been saved, but could have, in many cases, returned to their
pre-infection health status had mandated early treatment
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with these proven methods been used. This neglect of early
treatment constitutes mass murder. That means 160,000
would have actually died, far less than the number dying at
the hands of bureaucracies, medical associations and medical
boards that refused to stand up for their patients. According
to studies of early treatment of thousands of patients by
brave, caring doctors, seventy-five to eighty percent of the
deaths could have been prevented.[43,44]
Incredibly, these knowledgeable doctors were prevented
from saving these Covid-19 infected people. It should be
an embarrassment to the medical profession that so many
doctors mindlessly followed the deadly protocols established
by the controllers of medicine. </p><p>One must also keep in mind that this event never satisfied
the criteria for a pandemic. The World Health Organization
changed the criteria to make this a pandemic. To qualify
for a pandemic status the virus must have a high mortality
rate for the vast majority of people, which it didn’t (with a
99.98% survival rate), and it must have no known existing
treatments—which this virus had—in fact, a growing number
of very successful treatments.
The draconian measures established to contain this contrived
“pandemic” have never been shown to be successful, such
as masking the public, lockdowns, and social distancing.
A number of carefully done studies during previous flu
seasons demonstrated that masks, of any kind, had never
prevented the spread of the virus among the public.[60] </p><p>In fact, some very good studies suggested that the masks
actually spread the virus by giving people a false sense of
security and other factors, such as the observation that people
were constantly breaking sterile technique by touching their
mask, improper removal and by leakage of infectious aerosols
around the edges of the mask. In addition masks were being
disposed of in parking lots, walking trails, laid on tabletops in
restaurants and placed in pockets and purses.
Within a few minutes of putting on the mask, a number of
pathogenic bacteria can be cultured from the masks, putting
the immune suppressed person at a high risk of bacterial
pneumonia and children at a higher risk of meningitis.[16]
A study by researchers at the University of Florida cultured
over 11 pathogenic bacteria from the inside of the mask worn
by children in schools.[40]
It was also known that children were at essentially no risk of
either getting sick from the virus or transmitting it.
In addition, it was also known that wearing a mask for
over 4 hours (as occurs in all schools) results in significant
hypoxia (low blood oxygen levels) and hypercapnia (high
CO2 levels), which have a number of deleterious effects on
health, including impairing the development of the child’s
brain.[4,72,52]
We have known that brain development continues long
after the grade school years. A recent study found that
children born during the “pandemic” have significantly
lower IQs—yet school boards, school principals and other
educational bureaucrats are obviously unconcerned.[18] </p><p>TOOLS OF THE INDOCTRINATION TRADE
The designers of this pandemic anticipated a pushback by
the public and that major embarrassing questions would be
asked. To prevent this, the controllers fed the media a number
of tactics, one of the most commonly used was and is the
“fact check” scam. With each confrontation with carefully
documented evidence, the media “fact checkers” countered with
the charge of “misinformation”, and an unfounded “conspiracy
theory” charge that was, in their lexicon, “debunked”. Never
were we told who the fact checkers were or the source of their
“debunking” information—we were just to believe the “fact
checkers”. A recent court case established under oath that
facebook “fact checkers” used their own staff opinion and not
real experts to check “facts”.[59] When sources are in fact revealed
they are invariably the corrupt CDC, WHO or Anthony Fauci
or just their opinion. </p><p>Here is a list of things that were labeled as
“myths” and “misinformation” that were later proven to be true.
• The asymptomatic vaccinated are spreading the virus
equally as with unvaccinated symptomatic infected.
• The vaccines cannot protect adequately against new
variants, such as Delta and Omicron.
• Natural immunity is far superior to vaccine immunity
and is most likely lifelong.
• Vaccine immunity not only wanes after several months,
but all immune cells are impaired for prolonged periods,
putting the vaccinated at a high risk of all infections and
cancer.
• COVID vaccines can cause a significant incidence of
blood clots and other serious side effects
• The vaccine proponents will demand numerous boosters
as each variant appears on the scene.
• Fauci will insist on the covid vaccine for small children
and even babies.
• Vaccine passports will be required to enter a business, fly
in a plane, and use public transportation
• There will be internment camps for the unvaccinated (as
in Australia, Austria and Canada)
• The unvaccinated will be denied employment.
• There are secret agreements between the government,
elitist institutions, and vaccine makers
• Many hospitals were either empty or had low occupancy
during the pandemic.
• The spike protein from the vaccine enters the nucleus of
the cell, altering cell DNA repair function.
• Hundreds of thousands have been killed by the vaccines
and many times more have been permanently damaged.
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• Early treatment could have saved the lives of most of the
700,000 who died.
• Vaccine-induced myocarditis (which was denied
initially) is a significant problem and clears over a short
period.
• Special deadly lots (batches) of these vaccines are mixed
with the mass of other Covid-19 vaccines
Several of these claims by those opposing these vaccines now
appear on the CDC website—most still identified as “myths”. </p><p>Today, extensive evidence has confirmed that each of these
so-called “myths” were in fact true. Many are even admitted
by the “saint of vaccines”, Anthony Fauci. For example, we
were told, even by our cognitively impaired President, that
once the vaccine was released all the vaccinated people could
take off their masks. Oops! We were told shortly afterward—
the vaccinated have high concentrations (titers) of the virus in
their noses and mouths (nasopharynx) and can transmit the
virus to others in which they come into contact—especially
their own family members. On go the masks once again—
in fact double masking is recommended. The vaccinated
are now known to be the main superspreaders of the virus
and hospitals are filled with the sick vaccinated and people
suffering from serious vaccine complications.[27,42,45]
Another tactic by the vaccine proponents is to demonize
those who reject being vaccinated for a variety of reasons.
The media refers to these critically thinking individuals
as “anti-vaxxers”, “vaccine deniers”, “Vaccine resisters”,
“murders”, “enemies of the greater good” and as being the
ones prolonging the pandemic. I have been appalled by the
vicious, often heartless attacks by some of the people on
social media when a parent or loved one relates a story of the
terrible suffering and eventual death, they or their loved one
suffered as a result of the vaccines. Some psychopaths tweet
that they are glad that the loved one died or that the dead
vaccinated person was an enemy of good for telling of the
event and should be banned. This is hard to conceptualize.
This level of cruelty is terrifying, and signifies the collapse of
a moral, decent, and compassionate society.
It is bad enough for the public to sink this low, but the
media, political leaders, hospital administrators, medical
associations and medical licensing boards are acting in a
similar morally dysfunctional and cruel way. </p><p>LOGIC, REASONING, AND SCIENTIFIC
EVIDENCE HAS DISAPPEARED IN THIS EVENT </p><p>Has scientific evidence, carefully done studies, clinical
experience and medical logic had any effect on stopping
these ineffective and dangerous vaccines? Absolutely not!
The draconian efforts to vaccinate everyone on the planet
continues (except the elite, postal workers, members of
Congress and other insiders).[31,62]
In the case of all other drugs and previous conventional
vaccines under review by the FDA, the otherwise unexplained
deaths of 50 or less individuals would result in a halt in
further distribution of the product, as happened on 1976
with the swine flu vaccine. With over 18,000 deaths being
reported by the VAERS system for the period December
14, 2020 and December 31st, 2021 as well as 139,126 serious
injuries (including deaths) for the same period there is still no
interest in stopping this deadly vaccine program.[61] Worse,
there is no serious investigation by any government agency
to determine why these people are dying and being seriously
and permanently injured by these vaccines.[15,67] What we do
see is a continuous series of coverups and evasions by the
vaccine makers and their promoters.
The war against effective cheap and very safe repurposed
drugs and natural compounds, that have proven beyond all
doubt to have saved millions of lives all over the world, has
not only continued but has stepped up in intensity.[32,34,43]
Doctors are told they cannot provide these life-saving
compounds for their patients and if they do, they will be
removed from the hospital, have their medical license removed
or be punished in many other ways. A great many pharmacies
have refused to fill prescriptions for lvermectin or hydroxy chloroquine, despite the fact that millions of people have taken
these drugs safely for over 60 years in the case of hydroxy
chloroquine and decades for Ivermectin.[33,36] </p><p>This refusal to
fill prescriptions is unprecedented and has been engineered by
those wanting to prevent alternative methods of treatment, all
based on protecting vaccine expansion to all. Several companies
that make hydroxy chloroquine agreed to empty their stocks of
the drug by donating them to the Strategic National Stockpile,
making this drug far more difficult to get.[33] Why would the
government do that when over 30 well-done studies have
shown that this drug reduced deaths anywhere from 66% to
92% in other countries, such as India, Egypt, Argentina, France,
Nigeria, Spain, Peru, Mexico, and others?[23]
The critics of these two life-saving drugs are most often
funded by Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, both of which are
making millions from these vaccines.[48,15] </p><p>To further stop the use of these drugs, the pharmaceutical
industry and Bill Gates/Anthony Fauci funded fake research
to make the case that hydroxy chloroquine was a dangerous
drug and could damage the heart.[34] To make this fraudulent
case the researchers administered the sickest of covid
patients a near lethal dose of the drug, in a dose far higher
than used on any covid patient by Dr. Kory, McCullough and
other “real”, and compassionate doctors, physicians who were
actually treating covid patients.[23]
The controlled, lap-dog media, of course, hammered
the public with stories of the deadly effect of hydroxy chloroquine, all with a terrified look of fake panic. All these
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stories of ivermectin dangers were shown to be untrue and
some of the stories were incredibly preposterous.[37,43]
The attack on Ivermectin was even more vicious than against
hydroxy-chloroquine. All of this, and a great deal more is
meticulously chronicled in Robert Kennedy, Jr’s excellent
new book—The Real Anthony Fauci. Bill Gates, Big Pharma,
and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.
[32] </p><p>If
you are truly concerned with the truth and with all that has
occurred since this atrocity started, you must not only read,
but study this book carefully. It is fully referenced and covers
all topics in great detail. This is a designed human tragedy
of Biblical proportions by some of the most vile, heartless,
psychopaths in history.
Millions have been deliberately killed and crippled, not only
by this engineered virus, but by the vaccine itself and by the
draconian measures used by these governments to “control
the pandemic spread”. We must not ignore the “deaths by
despair” caused by these draconian measures, which can
exceed hundreds of thousands. Millions have starved in third
world countries as a result. In the United States alone, of the
800,000 who died, claimed by the medical bureaucracies, well
over 600,000 of these deaths were the result of the purposeful
neglect of early treatment, blocking the use of highly effective
and safe repurposed drugs, such as hydroxy-chloroquine and
Ivermectin, and the forced use of deadly treatments such
as remdesivir and use of ventilators. This does not count the
deaths of despair and neglected medical care caused by the
lockdown and hospital measures forced on healthcare systems.
To compound all this, because of vaccine mandates among
all hospital personnel, thousands of nurses and other hospital
workers have resigned or been fired.[17,30,51] This has resulted
in critical shortages of these vital healthcare workers and
dangerous reductions of ICU beds in many hospitals. In
addition, as occurred in the Lewis County Healthcare
System, a specialty-hospital system in Lowville, N.Y., closed
its maternity unit following the resignation of 30 hospital staff
over the state’s disastrous vaccine mandate orders. The irony
in all these cases of resignations is that the administrators
unhesitatingly accepted these mass staffing losses despite
rantings about suffering from short staffing during a
“crisis”. This is especially puzzling when we learned that the
vaccines did not prevent viral transmission and the present
predominant variant is of extremely low pathogenicity. </p><p>DANGERS OF THE VACCINES ARE
INCREASINGLY REVEALED BY SCIENCE </p><p>While most researchers, virologists, infectious disease
researchers and epidemiologists have been intimidated into
silence, a growing number of high integrity individuals
with tremendous expertise have come forward to tell the
truth—that is, that these vaccines are deadly.
Most new vaccines must go through extensive safety testing
for years before they are approved. New technologies, such
as the mRNA and DNA vaccines, require a minimum of
10 years of careful testing and extensive follow-up. These new
so-called vaccines were “tested” for only 2 months and then
the results of these safety test were and continue to be kept
secret. Testimony before Senator Ron Johnson by several who
participated in the 2 months study indicates that virtually no
follow-up of the participants of the pre-release study was ever
done.[67] Complains of complications were ignored and despite
promises by Pfizer that all medical expenses caused by the
“vaccines” would be paid by Pfizer, these individuals stated
that none were paid.[66] Some medical expenses exceed 100,000
dollars.</p><p>As an example of the deception by Pfizer, and the other
makers of mRNA vaccines, is the case of 12-year-old Maddie
de Garay, who participated in the Pfizer vaccine pre-release
safety study. At Sen. Johnson’s presentation with the families
of the vaccine injured, her mother told of her child’s recurrent
seizures, that she is now confined to a wheelchair, must be
tube fed and suffers permanent brain damage. On the Pfizer
safety evaluation submitted to the FDA her only side effect
is listed as having a “stomachache”. Each person submitted
similar horrifying stories. </p><p>The Japanese resorted to a FOIA (Freedom of Information
Act) lawsuit to force Pfizer to release its secret biodistribution
study. The reason Pfizer wanted it kept secret is that it
demonstrated that Pfizer lied to the public and the regulatory
agencies about the fate of the injected vaccine contents (the
mRNA enclosed nano-lipid carrier). They claimed that it
remained at the site of the injection (the shoulder), when in
fact their own study found that it rapidly spread throughout
the entire body by the bloodstream within 48 hours.
The study also found that these deadly nano-lipid carriers
collected in very high concentrations in several organs,
including the reproductive organs of males and females, the
heart, the liver, the bone marrow, and the spleen (a major
immune organ). The highest concentration was in the ovaries
and the bone marrow. These nano-lipid carriers also were
deposited in the brain.
Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist from Idaho reported a dramatic
spike in highly aggressive cancers among vaccinated
individuals, (not reported in the Media). He found a
frighteningly high incidence of highly aggressive cancers in
vaccinated individuals, especially highly invasive melanomas
in young people and uterine cancers in women.[26] Other
reports of activation of previously controlled cancers are also
appearing among vaccinated cancer patients.[47] Thus far, no
studies have been done to confirm these reports, but it is
unlikely such studies will be done, at least studies funded by
grants from the NIH.
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Surgical Neurology International • 2022 • 13(167) | 7 </p><p>The high concentration of spike proteins found in the ovaries
in the biodistribution study could very well impair fertility
in young women, alter menstruation, and could put them at
an increased risk of ovarian cancer. The high concentration
in the bone marrow, could also put the vaccinated at a high
risk of leukemia and lymphoma. The leukemia risk is very
worrisome now that they have started vaccinating children
as young as 5 years of age. No long-term studies have been
conducted by any of these makers of Covid-19 vaccines,
especially as regards the risk of cancer induction. Chronic
inflammation is intimately linked to cancer induction,
growth and invasion and vaccines stimulate inflammation.
Cancer patients are being told they should get vaccinated
with these deadly vaccines. This, in my opinion, is insane.
Newer studies have shown that this type of vaccine inserts
the spike protein within the nucleus of the immune cells (and
most likely many cell types) and once there, inhibits two very
important DNA repair enzymes, BRCA1 and 53BP1, whose
duty it is to repair damage to the cell’s DNA.[29] Unrepaired
DNA damage plays a major role in cancer.
There is a hereditary disease called xeroderma pigmentosum
in which the DNA repair enzymes are defective. These
ill-fated individuals develop multiple skin cancers and
a very high incidence of organ cancer as a result. Here
we have a vaccine that does the same thing, but to a less
extensive degree.
One of the defective repair enzymes caused by these vaccines
is called BRCA1, which is associated with a significantly
higher incidence of breast cancer in women and prostate
cancer in men.
It should be noted that no studies were ever done on several
critical aspects of this type of vaccine.
• They have never been tested for long term effects
• They have never been tested for induction of
autoimmunity
• They have never been properly tested for safety during
any stage of pregnancy
• No follow-up studies have been done on the babies of
vaccinated women
• There are no long-term studies on the children of
vaccinated pregnant women after their birth (Especially
as neurodevelopmental milestone occur).
• It has never been tested for effects on a long list of
medical conditions:
• Diabetes
• Heart disease
• Atherosclerosis
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Neuropsychiatric effects
• Induction of autism spectrum disorders and
schizophrenia
• Long term immune function
• Vertical transmission of defects and disorders
• Cancer
• Autoimmune disorders
Previous experience with the flu vaccines clearly
demonstrates that the safety studies done by researchers
and clinical doctors with ties to pharmaceutical companies
were essentially all either poorly done or purposefully
designed to falsely show safety and coverup side effects and
complications. This was dramatically demonstrated with the
previously mentioned phony studies designed to indicate
that hydroxy Chloroquine and Ivermectin were ineffective
and too dangerous to use.[34,36,37] </p><p>These fake studies resulted
in millions of deaths and severe health disasters worldwide.
As stated, 80% of all deaths were unnecessary and could
have been prevented with inexpensive, safe repurposed
medications with a very long safety history among millions
who have taken them for decades or even a lifetime.[43,44]
It is beyond ironic that those claiming that they are
responsible for protecting our health approved a poorly
tested set of vaccines that has resulted in more deaths in
less than a year of use than all the other vaccines combined
given over the past 30 years. Their excuse when confronted
was—“we had to overlook some safety measures because this
was a deadly pandemic”.[28,46]
In 1986 President Reagan signed the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act, which gave blanket protection
to pharmaceutical makers of vaccines against injury
litigation by families of vaccine injured individuals. The
Supreme Court, in a 57-page opinion, ruled in favor
of the vaccine companies, effectively allowing vaccine
makers to manufacture and distribute dangerous, often
ineffective vaccines to the population without fear of legal
consequences. The court did insist on a vaccine injury
compensation system which has paid out only a very
small number of rewards to a large number of severely
injured individuals. It is known that it is very difficult to
receive these awards. According to the Health Resources
and Services Administration, since 1988 the Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has agreed to pay
3,597 awards among 19,098 vaccine injured individuals
applying amounting to a total sum of $3.8 billion. This
was prior to the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccines, in
which the deaths alone exceed all deaths related to all the
vaccines combined over a thirty-year period.
In 2018 President Trump signed into law the “right-to-try”
law which allowed the use of experimental drugs and all
unconventional treatments to be used in cases of extreme
medical conditions. As we have seen with the refusal of
many hospitals and even blanket refusal by states to allow
Ivermectin, hydroxy-chloroquine or any other unapproved
“official” methods to treat even terminal Covid-19 cases,
these nefarious individuals have ignored this law.
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Surgical Neurology International • 2022 • 13(167) | 8 </p><p>Strangely, they did not use this same logic or the law when
it came to Ivermectin and Hydroxy Chloroquine, both of
which had undergone extensive safety testing by over 30
clinical studies of a high quality and given glowing reports on
both efficacy and safety in numerous countries. In addition,
we had a record of use for up to 60 years by millions of
people, using these drugs worldwide, with an excellent safety
record. It was obvious that a group of very powerful people
in conjunction with pharmaceutical conglomerates didn’t
want the pandemic to end and wanted vaccines as the only
treatment option. Kennedy’s book makes this case using
extensive evidence and citations.[14,32]
Dr. James Thorpe, an expert in maternal-fetal medicine,
demonstrates that these covoid-19 vaccines given during
pregnancy have resulted in a 50-fold higher incidence of
miscarriage than reported with all other vaccines combined.
[28] When we examine his graph on fetal malformations there
was a 144-fold higher incidence of fetal malformation with
the Covid-19 vaccines given during pregnancy as compared
to all other vaccines combined. Yet, the American Academy
of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College
of Obstetrics and Gynecology endorse the safety of these
vaccines for all stages of pregnancy and among women breast
feeding their babies.
It is noteworthy that these medical specialty groups have
received significant funding from Pfizer pharmaceutical
company. The American College of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, just in the 4th quarter of 2010, received a total
of $11,000 from Pfizer Pharmaceutical company alone.[70]
Funding from NIH grants are much higher.[20] The best way
to lose these grants is to criticize the source of the funds,
their products or pet programs. Peter Duesberg, because
of his daring to question Fauci’s pet theory of AIDS caused
by HIV virus, was no longer awarded any of the 30 grant
applications he submitted after going public. Prior to this
episode, as the leading authority on retroviruses in the world,
he had never been turned down for an NIH grant.[39] This is
how the “corrupted” system works, even though much of the
grant money comes from our taxes. </p><p>HOT LOTS—DEADLY BATCHES OF THE
VACCINES </p><p>A new study has now surfaced, the results of which are
terrifying.[25] A researcher at Kingston University in London,
has completed an extensive analysis of the VAERs data (a
subdepartment of the CDC which collects voluntary vaccine
complication data), in which he grouped reported deaths
following the vaccines according to the manufacturer’s lot
numbers of the vaccines. Vaccines are manufactured in large
batches called lots. What he discovered was that the vaccines
are divided into over 20,000 lots and that one out of every 200
of these batches (lots) is demonstrably deadly to anyone who
receives a vaccine from that lot, which includes thousands of
vaccine doses.
He examined all manufactured vaccines—Pfizer, Moderna,
Johnson and Johnson (Janssen), etc. He found that among
every 200 batches of the vaccine from Pfizer and other
makers, one batch of the 200 was found to be over 50x
more deadly than vaccines batches from other lots. The
other vaccine lots (batches) were also causing deaths
and disabilities, but nowhere near to this extent. These
deadly batches should have appeared randomly among
all “vaccines” if it was an unintentional event. However, he
found that 5% of the vaccines were responsible for 90% of
the serious adverse events, including deaths. The incidence
of deaths and serious complications among these “hot
lots” varied from over 1000% to several thousand percent
higher than comparable safer lots. If you think this was by
accident—think again. This is not the first time “hot lots”
were, in my opinion, purposefully manufactured and sent
across the nation—usually vaccines designed for children. In
one such scandal, “hot lots” of a vaccine ended up all in one
state and the damage immediately became evident. What was
the manufacture’s response? It wasn’t to remove the deadly
batches of the vaccine. He ordered his company to scatter the
hot lots across the nation so that authorities would not see
the obvious deadly effect.
All lots of a vaccine are numbered—for example Modera
labels them with such codes as 013M20A. It was noted that
the batch numbers ended in either 20A or 21A. Batches
ending in 20A were much more toxic than the ones ending
in 21A. The batches ending in 20A had about 1700 adverse
events, versus a few hundred to twenty or thirty events for
the 21A batches. This example explains why some people had
few or no adverse events after taking the vaccine while others
are either killed or severely and permanently harmed. To
see the researcher’s explanation, go to https://www.bitchute.
com/video/6xIYPZBkydsu/ In my opinion these examples
strongly suggest an intentional alteration of the production
of the “vaccine” to include deadly batches.
I have met and worked with a number of people concerned
with vaccine safety and I can tell you they are not the evil
anti-vaxxers you are told they are. They are highly principled,
moral, compassionate people, many of which are top
researchers and people who have studied the issue extensively.
Robert Kennedy, Jr, Barbara Lou Fisher, Dr. Meryl Nass,
Professor Christopher Shaw, Megan Redshaw, Dr. Sherri
Tenpenny, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Neil Z. Miller, Dr. Lucija
Tomjinovic, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Dr. Steve Kirsch and
Dr. Peter McCullough just to name a few. These people have
nothing to gain and a lot to lose. They are attacked viciously
by the media, government agencies, and elite billionaires who
think they should control the world and everyone in it.
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THOSE WHO DIED AFTER VACCINATION? </p><p>There are many things about this “pandemic” that are
unprecedented in medical history. One of the most startling
is that at the height of the pandemic so few autopsies,
especially total autopsies, were being done. A mysterious
virus was rapidly spreading around the world, a selected
group of people with weakened immune systems were
getting seriously ill and many were dying and the one way we
could rapidly gain the most knowledge about this virus—an
autopsy, was being discouraged.
Guerriero noted that by the end of April, 2020 approximately
150,000 people had died, yet there were only 16 autopsies
performed and reported in the medical literature.[24] Among
these, only seven were complete autopsies, the remaining 9
being partial or by needle biopsy or incisional biopsy. Only
after 170,000 deaths by Covid-19 and four months into the
pandemic were the first series of autopsies actually done, that
is, more than ten. And only after 280,000 deaths and another
month, were the first large series of autopsies performed,
some 80 in number.[22] Sperhake, in a call for autopsies to
be done without question, noted that the first full autopsy
reported in the literature along with photomicrographs
appeared in a medico-legal journal from China in February
2020.[41,68] Sperhake expressed confusion as to why there
was a reluctance to perform autopsies during the crisis,
but he knew it was not coming from the pathologists. The
medical literature was littered with appeals by pathologist
for more autopsies to be performed.[58] Sperhake further
noted that the Robert Koch Institute (The German health
monitoring system) at least initially advised against doing
autopsies. He also knew that at the time 200 participating
autopsy institutions in the United States had done at least 225
autopsies among 14 states.
Some have claimed that this dearth of autopsies was based
on the government’s fear of infection among the pathologists,
but a study of 225 autopsies on Covid-19 cases demonstrated
only one case of infection among the pathologist and this was
concluded to have been an infection contracted elsewhere.[19]
Guerriero ends his article calling for more autopsies with
this observation: “Shoulder to shoulder, clinical and forensic
pathologists overcame the obstructions of autopsy studies in
Covid-19 victims and hereby generated valuable knowledge
on the pathophysiology of the interaction between the
SARS-CoV-2 and the human body, thus contributing to our
understanding of the disease.”[24] </p><p>Suspicion concerning the worldwide reluctance of nations
to allow full post mortem studies of Covid-19 victims
may be based on the idea that it was more than by chance.
There are at least two possibilities that stand out. First, those
leading the progression of this “non-pandemic” event into
a perceived worldwide “deadly pandemic”, were hiding an
important secret that autopsies could document. Namely, just
how many of the deaths were actually caused by the virus?
To implement draconian measures, such as mandated mask
wearing, lockdowns, destruction of businesses, and eventually
mandated forced vaccination, they needed very large numbers
of covid-19 infected dead. Fear would be the driving force for
all these destructive pandemic control programs.
Elder et al in his study classified the autopsy findings into
four groups.[22]
1. Certain Covid-19 death
2. Probably Covid-19 death
3. Possible Covid-19 death
4. Not associated with Covid-19, despite the positive test. </p><p>What possibly concerned or even terrified the engineers of
this pandemic was that autopsies just might, and did, show
that a number of these so-called Covid-19 deaths in truth
died of their comorbid diseases. In the vast majority of
autopsy studies reported, pathologists noted multiple
comorbid conditions, most of which at the extremes of life
could alone be fatal. Previously it was known that common
cold viruses had an 8% mortality in nursing homes.
In addition, valuable evidence could be obtained from the
autopsies that would improve clinical treatments and could
possibly demonstrate the deadly effect of the CDC mandated
protocols all hospitals were required to follow, such as the
use of respirators and the deadly, kidney-destroying drug
remdesivir. The autopsies also demonstrated accumulating
medical errors and poor-quality care, as the shielding of
doctors in intensive care units from the eyes of family
members inevitably leads to poorer quality care as reported
by several nurses working in these areas.[53-55] </p><p>As bad as all this was, the very same thing is being done
in the case of Covid vaccine deaths—very few complete
autopsies have been done to understand why these people
died, that is, until recently. Two highly qualified researchers,
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi a microbiologist and highly qualified
expert in infectious disease and Dr. Arne Burkhardt, a
pathologist who is a widely published authority having been
a professor of pathology at several prestigious institutions,
recently performed autopsies on 15 people having died
after vaccination. What they found explains why so many
are dying and experiencing organ damage and deadly
blood clots.[5]
They determined that 14 of the fifteen people died as a result
of the vaccines and not of other causes. Dr. Burkhardt, the
pathologist, observed widespread evidence of an immune
attack on the autopsied individuals’ organs and tissues—
especially their heart. This evidence included extensive
invasion of small blood vessels with massive numbers of
lymphocytes, which cause extensive cell destruction when
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unleashed. Other organs, such as the lungs and liver, were
observed to have extensive damage as well. </p><p>These findings
indicate the vaccines were causing the body to attack itself
with deadly consequences. One can easily see why Anthony
Fauci, as well as public health officers and all who are heavily
promoting these vaccines, publicly discouraged autopsies on
the vaccinated who subsequently died. One can also see that
in the case of vaccines, that were essentially untested prior to
being approved for the general public, at least the regulatory
agencies should have been required to carefully monitor and
analyze all serious complications, and certainly deaths, linked
to these vaccines. The best way to do that is with complete
autopsies.
While we learned important information from these autopsies
what is really needed are special studies of the tissues of those
who have died after vaccination for the presence of spike
protein infiltration throughout the organs and tissues. This
would be critical information, as such infiltration would result
in severe damage to all tissues and organs involved—especially
the heart, the brain, and the immune system. Animal studies
have demonstrated this. In these vaccinated individuals the
source of these spike proteins would be the injected nanolipid
carriers of the spike protein producing mRNA. </p><p>It is obvious
that the government health authorities and pharmaceutical
manufacturers of these “vaccines” do not want these critical
studies done as the public would be outraged and demand
an end to the vaccination program and prosecution of the
involved individuals who covered this up.
CONCLUSIONS
We are all living through one of the most drastic changes in
our culture, economic system, as well as political system in
our nation’s history as well as the rest of the world. We have
been told that we will never return to “normal” and that a
great reset has been designed to create a “new world order”.
This has all been outlined by Klaus Schwab, head of the
World Economic Forum, in his book on the “Great Reset”.[66]
This book gives a great deal of insight as to the thinking of
the utopians who are proud to claim this pandemic “crisis”
as their way to usher in a new world. This new world order
has been on the drawing boards of the elite manipulators
for over a century.[73,74] </p><p>In this paper I have concentrated
on the devastating effects this has had on the medical care
system in the United States, but also includes much of the
Western world. In past papers I have discussed the slow
erosion of traditional medical care in the United States and
how this system has become increasingly bureaucratized and
regimented.[7,8] This process was rapidly accelerating, but the
appearance of this, in my opinion, manufactured “pandemic”
has transformed our health care system over night.
As you have seen, an unprecedented series of events have
taken place within this system. Hospital administrators,
for example, assumed the position of medical dictators,
ordering doctors to follow protocols derived not from those
having extensive experience in treating this virus, but rather
from a medical bureaucracy that has never treated a single
COVID-19 patient. The mandated use of respirators on ICU
Covid-19 patients, for example, was imposed in all medical
systems and dissenting physicians were rapidly removed from
their positions as caregivers, despite their demonstration of
markedly improved treatment methods. </p><p>Further, doctors
were told to use the drug remdesivir despite its proven
toxicity, lack of effectiveness and high complication rate.
They were told to use drugs that impaired respiration and
mask every patient, despite the patient’s impaired breathing.
In each case, those who refused to abuse their patients
were removed from the hospital and even faced a loss of
license—or worse.
For the first time in modern medical history, early medical
treatment of these infected patients was ignored nationwide.
Studies have shown that early medical treatment was saving
80% of higher number of these infected people when initiated
by independent doctors.[43,44] Early treatment could have
saved over 640,000 lives over the course of this “pandemic”. </p><p>Despite the demonstration of the power of these early
treatments, the forces controlling medical care continued this
destructive policy.
Families were not allowed to see their loved ones, forcing
these very sick individuals in the hospitals to face their
deaths alone. To add insult to injury, funerals were limited
to a few grieving family members, who were not allowed to
even sit together. All the while large stores, such as Walmart
and Cosco were allowed to operate with minimal restrictions.
Nursing home patients were also not allowed to have
family visitations, again being forced to die a lonely death.
All the while, in a number of states, the most transparent
being in New York state, infected elderly were purposefully
transferred from hospitals into nursing homes, resulting in
a very high death rates of these nursing home residents. At
the beginning of this “pandemic” over 50% of all death were
occurring in nursing homes.
Throughout this “pandemic” we have been fed an unending
series of lies, distortions and disinformation by the media,
the public health officials, medical bureaucracies (CDC, FDA
and WHO) and medical associations. Physicians, scientists,
and experts in infectious treatments who formed associations
designed to develop more effective and safer treatments, were
regularly demonized, harassed, shamed, humiliated, and
experience a loss of licensure, loss of hospital privileges and, in
at least one case, ordered to have a psychiatric examination.[2,65,71] </p><p>Anthony Fauci was given essentially absolute control of all
forms of medical care during this event, including insisting
that drugs he profited from be used by all treating physicians.
He ordered the use of masks, despite at first laughing at the
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use of masks to filter a virus. Governors, mayors, and many
businesses followed his orders without question.
The draconian measures being used, masking, lockdowns,
testing of the uninfected, use of the inaccurate PCR test, social
distancing, and contact tracing had been shown previously
to be of little or no use during previous pandemics, yet all
attempts to reject these methods were to no avail. Some states
ignored these draconian orders and had either the same or
fewer cases, as well as deaths, as the states with the most
strictly enforced measures. </p><p>Again, no amount of evidence or
obvious demonstration along these lines had any effect on
ending these socially destructive measures. Even when entire
countries, such as Sweden, which avoided all these measures,
demonstrated equal rates of infections and hospitalization as
nations with the strictest, very draconian measures, no policy
change by the controlling institutions occurred. No amount
of evidence changed anything.
Experts in the psychology of destructive events, such as
economic collapses, major disasters and previous pandemics
demonstrated that draconian measures come with an
enormous cost in the form of “deaths of despair” and in
a dramatic increase in serious psychological disorders.
The effects of these pandemic measures on children’s
neurodevelopment is catastrophic and to a large extent
irreversible.
Over time tens of thousands could die as a result of this
damage. Even when these predictions began to appear, the
controllers of this “pandemic” continued full steam ahead.
Drastic increases in suicides, a rise in obesity, a rise in drug
and alcohol use, a worsening of many health measures
and a terrifying rise in psychiatric disorders, especially
depression and anxiety, were ignored by the officials
controlling this event.
We eventually learned that many of the deaths were a
result of medical neglect. Individuals with chronic medical
conditions, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and
neurological diseases were no longer being followed properly
in their clinics and doctor’s offices. Non-emergency surgeries
were put on hold. Many of these patients chose to die at home
rather than risk going to the hospitals and many considered
hospitals “death houses”. </p><p>Records of deaths have shown that there was a rise in deaths
among those aged 75 and older, mostly explained by Covid-19
infections, but for those between the ages of 65 to 74, deaths
had been increasing well before the pandemic onset.[69]
Between ages of 18 and aged 65 years, records demonstrate a
shocking hike in non-Covid-19 deaths. Some of these deaths
were explained by a dramatic increase in drug-related deaths,
some 20,000 more than 2019. Alcohol related deaths also
increased substantially, and homicides increased almost 30%
in the 18 to 65-year group.
The head of the insurance company OneAmerica stated
that their data indicated that the death rate for individuals
aged 18 to 64 had increased 40% over the pre-pandemic
period.[21] Scott Davidson, the company’s CEO, stated that
this represented the highest death rate in the history of
insurance records, which does extensive data collections on
death rates each year. Davidson also noted that this high of
a death rate increase has never been seen in the history of
death data collection. Previous catastrophes of monumental
extent increased death rates no more than 10 percent, 40% is
unprecedented. </p><p>Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, stated
that hospitalizations in Indiana are higher than at any point
in the past five years. This is of critical importance since
the vaccines were supposed to significantly reduce deaths,
but the opposite has happened. Hospitals are being flooded
with vaccine complications and people in critical condition
from medical neglect caused by the lockdowns and other
pandemic measures.[46,56]
A dramatic number of these people are now dying, with
the spike occurring after the vaccines were introduced. The
lies flowing from those who have appointed themselves
as medical dictators are endless. First, we were told that
the lockdown would last only two weeks, they lasted over
a year. Then we were told that masks were ineffective and
did not need to be worn. Quickly that was reversed. Then
we were told the cloth mask was very effective, now it’s not
and everyone should be wearing an N95 mask and before
that that they should double mask. We were told there was
a severe shortage of respirators, then we discover they are
sitting unused in warehouses and in city dumps, still in
their packing crates. We were informed that the hospitals
were filled mostly with the unvaccinated and later found the
exact opposite was true the world over. We were told that
the vaccine was 95% effective, only to learn that in fact the
vaccines cause a progressive erosion of innate immunity.
Upon release of the vaccines, women were told the vaccines
were safe during all states of pregnancy, only to find out no
studies had been done on safety during pregnancy during the
“safety tests” prior to release of the vaccine. We were told that
careful testing on volunteers before the EUA approval for
public use demonstrated extreme safety of the vaccines, only
to learn that these unfortunate subjects were not followed,
medical complications caused by the vaccines were not paid
for and the media covered this all up.[67] </p><p>We also learned
that the pharmaceutical makers of the vaccines were told by
the FDA that further animal testing was unnecessary (the
general public would be the Guinea pigs.) Incredibly, we were
told that the Pfizer’s new mRNA vaccines had been approved
by the FDA, which was a cleaver deception, in that another
vaccine had approval (comirnaty) and not the one being
used, the BioNTech vaccine. The approved comirnaty vaccine
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was not available in the United States. The national media
told the public that the Pfizer vaccine had been approved and
was no longer classed as experimental, a blatant lie. These
deadly lies continue. It is time to stop this insanity and bring
these people to justice.
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Here's what they look like when this happens:</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikvWsAbiIj5l-YhgZh88MjGwkeuqF1bZDiJ32ov4HXjdsWaPl75J8EGd3nThY9XrWlzwAX2FbOmoBymUXBb7bavSp2CZUjncfxPj4mkdYaI8zaYFaNAohHu7XXrKZJl_5EOnMXenKHfKgsiuIIOKAFYRdBG8KeIcMD-mlsbZImdtajWPkuHfaMFiCBAA=s1440" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikvWsAbiIj5l-YhgZh88MjGwkeuqF1bZDiJ32ov4HXjdsWaPl75J8EGd3nThY9XrWlzwAX2FbOmoBymUXBb7bavSp2CZUjncfxPj4mkdYaI8zaYFaNAohHu7XXrKZJl_5EOnMXenKHfKgsiuIIOKAFYRdBG8KeIcMD-mlsbZImdtajWPkuHfaMFiCBAA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #31313b; font-family: museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Turbatrix aceti</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-family: museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">, a species of nematode commonly known as vinegar eels, engage in synchronized swimming when confined to a water droplet. </span>photo: ANTON PESHKOV</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">These vinegar eels coordinate two types of movement, directional motion plus oscillation, to create the torus shape pictured above. Confinement to a globular water droplet is required in order to coordinate these movements, otherwise the tiny nematodes swim by themselves through their liquid mediums.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The toroidal distribution exerts a measurable outward pressure toward the outside of the droplet to keep it from collapsing inward. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scientists are puzzled as to how these mindless, primitive organisms can coordinate this complex behavior. Such behavior has been predicted by computer modeling of fluid dynamics, but this is the first example discovered in living organisms.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The original report appears in the journal <a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/SM/D1SM01572A" target="_blank"><u>Soft Matter</u>.</a></span></p><div class="article__title" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.79); display: table; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", source-sans-pro, museo_sans300, museo-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; width: 617.594px;"><h2 class="capsule__title fixpadv--m" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); display: table-cell; font-family: Gotham, museo_sans700, museo-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 28px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 12px;"><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/SM/D1SM01572A" target="_blank">Synchronized oscillations in swarms of nematode <em>Turbatrix aceti</em></a></h2><div class="fixpadv--m crossmark-button visible" style="display: table-cell; height: 35px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 12px; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 150px;"><br /></div></div><div class="article__authors" style="background-color: white; color: #54585a; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", source-sans-pro, museo_sans300, museo-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 8px 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="article__author-link" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?searchtext=Author%3AAnton%20Peshkov" style="color: #007aaf;">Anton Peshkov</a>, </span><span class="article__author-link" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?searchtext=Author%3ASonia%20McGaffigan" style="color: #007aaf;">Sonia McGaffigan</a> and </span><span class="article__author-link" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?searchtext=Author%3AAlice%20C.%20Quillen" style="color: #007aaf;">Alice C. Quillen</a> </span></div><div class="article__authors" style="background-color: white; color: #54585a; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", source-sans-pro, museo_sans300, museo-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 8px 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is another look at the nematodes in the process of organizing themselves into the torus.</span></div><div class="article__authors" style="background-color: white; color: #54585a; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", source-sans-pro, museo_sans300, museo-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 8px 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPXLO5tOEB4PtzACHhunD4mhNzVnMA08-2MtydWBlswxpmASa8by0r3wuj1oAFsBBG_Dalx1BziPqd0Fb0goZhTmhul2Czw185Gobhrr1jgl5K6T-xS6BtiPSEUcLvLlpGSXCjhlhhDQuoqencC0lCDVxMvS7gzROLVYZC2JmuEbQeWiwDl3ufPQ7a_Q=s282" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="282" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPXLO5tOEB4PtzACHhunD4mhNzVnMA08-2MtydWBlswxpmASa8by0r3wuj1oAFsBBG_Dalx1BziPqd0Fb0goZhTmhul2Czw185Gobhrr1jgl5K6T-xS6BtiPSEUcLvLlpGSXCjhlhhDQuoqencC0lCDVxMvS7gzROLVYZC2JmuEbQeWiwDl3ufPQ7a_Q" width="282" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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Actually Dark Energy Stars?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why one physicist believes our whole
understanding of black holes is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.15pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://nautil.us/?utm_source=pocket"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nautilus</span></b></a> </span><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jesse
Stone</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SHHqDXjscs1EngybhpLo2osUcUq-u1-pa5UcrxDeG1SbBb2R1NbzMidhCrAu6aOyHSWlaubkd-OBaW2ldF0-7xDlmuxpU99MtJ0JWmW77wP2vQRvnJvPKjfvhyphenhyphenl8PGBW4U-oV2QcOTdf/s733/NASA+event+horizon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="733" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SHHqDXjscs1EngybhpLo2osUcUq-u1-pa5UcrxDeG1SbBb2R1NbzMidhCrAu6aOyHSWlaubkd-OBaW2ldF0-7xDlmuxpU99MtJ0JWmW77wP2vQRvnJvPKjfvhyphenhyphenl8PGBW4U-oV2QcOTdf/s320/NASA+event+horizon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George
Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that
black holes are really dark energy stars. Photo by NASA.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What does the supermassive black
hole at the center of the Milky Way look like? We might find out. The Event
Horizon Telescope—really a virtual telescope with an effective diameter of the
Earth—has been pointing at Sagittarius A* for the last several years. Most
researchers in the astrophysics community expect that its images, taken from
telescopes all over the Earth, will show the telltale signs of a black hole: a
bright swirl of light, produced by a disc of gases trapped in the black hole’s
orbit, surrounding a black shadow at the center—the event horizon. This
encloses the region of space where the black-hole singularity’s gravitational
pull is too strong for light to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But George Chapline, a physicist at
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, doesn’t expect to see a black hole.
He doesn’t believe they’re real. In 2005, he told <i>Nature</i> that
“it’s a near certainty that black holes don’t exist” and—building on previous
work he’d done with physics Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin—introduced an
alternative model that he dubbed “dark energy stars.” Dark energy is a term
physicists use to describe a peculiar kind of energy that appears to permeate
the entire universe. It expands the fabric of spacetime itself, even as gravity
attempts to bring objects closer together. Chapline believes that the immense
energies in a collapsing star cause its protons and neutrons to decay into a
gas of photons and other elementary particles, along with what he refers to as
“droplets of vacuum energy.” These form a “condensed” phase of spacetime—much
like a gas under enough pressure transitions to liquid—that has a much higher
density of dark energy than the spacetime surrounding the star. This provides
the pressure necessary to hold gravity at bay and prevent a singularity from
forming. Without a singularity in spacetime, there is no black hole.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The idea has found no support in the
astrophysical community—over the last decade, Chapline’s papers on this topic
have garnered only single-digit citations. His most popular paper in particle
physics, by contrast, has been cited over 600 times. But Chapline suspects his
days of wandering in the scientific wilderness may soon be over. He believes that
the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that dark energy stars are
real.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
strange toroidal geometry isn’t a bug of dark energy stars, but a feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The idea goes back to a 2000 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012094" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">paper</span></a>, with Evan Hohlfeld and David Santiago, in
which Chapline and Laughlin modeled spacetime as a Bose-Einstein condensate—a
state of matter that arises when taking an extremely low-density gas to
extremely low temperatures, near absolute zero. Chapline and Laughlin’s model
is quantum mechanical in nature: General relativity emerges as a consequence of
the way that the spacetime condensate behaves on large scales. Spacetime in
this model also undergoes phase transformations when it gains or loses energy.
Other scientists find this to be a promising path, too. A 2009 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.3088.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">paper</span></a> by a group of Japanese physicists
stated that “[Bose-Einstein Condensates] are one of the most promising quantum
fluids for” analogizing curved spacetime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapline and Laughlin argue that
they can describe the collapsed stars that most scientists take to be black
holes as regions where spacetime has undergone a phase transition. They find
that the laws of general relativity are valid everywhere in the vicinity of the
collapsed star, except at the event horizon, which marks the boundary between
two different phases of spacetime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the condensate model the event
horizon surrounding a collapsed star is no longer a point of no return but
instead a traversable, physical surface. This feature, along with the lack of a
singularity that is the signature feature of black holes, means that paradoxes
associated with black holes, like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">destruction of information</span></a>,
don’t arise. Laughlin has been reticent to conjecture too far beyond his and
Chapline’s initial ideas. He believes Chapline is onto something with dark
energy stars, “but where we part company is in the amount of speculating
we are willing to do about what ‘phase’ of the vacuum might be inside”
what most scientists call black holes, Laughlin said. He’s holding off until
experimental data reveals more about the interior phase. “I will then write my
second paper on the subject,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In recent years Chapline has
continued to refine his dark energy star model in collaboration with several
other authors, including Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina and
Piotr Marecki of Leipzig University. He’s concluded that dark energy stars
aren’t spherical or oblate, like black holes. Instead, they have the shape of a
torus, or donut. In a rotating compact object, like a dark energy star,
Chapline believes quantum effects in the spacetime condensate generate a large
vortex along the object’s axis of rotation. Because the region inside the
vortex is empty—think of the depression that forms at the center of
whirlpool—the center of the dark energy star is hollow, like an apple without
its core. A similar effect is observed when quantum mechanics is used to model
rotating drops of superfluid. There too, a central vortex can form at the
center of a rotating drop and, surprisingly, change its shape from a sphere to
a torus. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "var(--fontSansSerif)",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the condensate model the event horizon surrounding a collapsed star is no
longer a point of no return but instead a traversable, physical surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Chapline, this strange toroidal
geometry isn’t a bug of dark energy stars, but a feature, as it helps explain
the origin and shape of astrophysical jets—the highly energetic beams of
ionized matter that are generated along the axis of rotation of a compact
object like a black hole. Chapline believes he’s identified a mechanism in dark
energy stars that explains observations of astrophysical jets better than
mainstream ones, which posit that energy is extracted from the accretion disk
outside of a black hole and focused into a narrow beam along the black hole’s
axis of rotation. To Chapline, matter and energy falling toward a dark energy star
would make its way to the inner throat (the “donut hole”), where electrons
orbiting the throat would, as in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biermann_battery" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Biermann Battery</span></a>, generate magnetic fields
powerful enough to drive the jets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapline points to <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016APS..DPPN10132L" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">experimental work</span></a> where scientists, at the
OMEGA Laser Facility at the University of Rochester, created magnetized jets
using lasers to form a ring-like excitation on a flat surface. Though the
experiments were not conducted with dark energy stars in mind, Chapline
believes it provides support for his theory since the ring-like
excitation—Chapline calls it a “ring of fire”—is exactly what he would expect
to happen along the throat of a dark energy star. He believes the ring could be
the key to supporting the existence of dark energy stars. “This ought to
eventually show up clearly” in the Event Horizon Telescope images, Chapline
said, referring to the ring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hole vs. Dark Energy Star: When viewed from the top down, a dark energy star
has a central opening, the donut hole. Chapline believes that matter and energy
rotating around the central opening (forming the “ring of fire”) is the source
of the astrophysical jets observed by astronomers in the vicinity of what most
believe to be black holes.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapline also points out that dark
energy stars will not be completely opaque to light, as matter and light can
pass into, but also out of, a dark energy star. A dark energy star won’t have a
completely black interior—instead it will show a distorted image of any stars
behind it. Other physicists, though, are skeptical that these kinds of
deviations from conventional black hole models would show up in the Event
Horizon Telescope data. Raul Carballo-Rubio, a physicist at the International
School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy, has developed his own
alternative model to black holes known as semi-classical relativistic stars.
Speaking more generally about alternative black hole models Caraballo-Rubio said,
“The differences [with black holes] that would arise in these models are too
minute to be detected” by the Event Horizon Telescope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapline plans to discuss his dark
energy star predictions in December 2018, at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. But even if his predictions are
confirmed, he said he doesn’t expect the scientific community to become
convinced overnight. “I expect that for the next few years the [Event Horizon
Telescope] people will be confused by what they see.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesse Stone is a freelance writer
based in Iowa City, Iowa. Reach him at jessebstone@gmail.com. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is what a solid made of electrons looks like (nature.com)</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">This
is what a solid made of electrons looks like<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Physicists have imaged elusive ‘Wigner
crystals’ for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Castelvecchi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqp7u-1n7i57SJRycaEdfR0xCyzGEKcwhi2SbwkXzMhegvVhUCovpc2hSG6-5c6eTiFmcIwjtKY4FCHp8ipK3aLj1weJXlL28XbV100PjOw9EMxJGH38Md_pp6mpXIU1zzmFgjYy2G7Kuz/s800/honeycomb+electrons.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqp7u-1n7i57SJRycaEdfR0xCyzGEKcwhi2SbwkXzMhegvVhUCovpc2hSG6-5c6eTiFmcIwjtKY4FCHp8ipK3aLj1weJXlL28XbV100PjOw9EMxJGH38Md_pp6mpXIU1zzmFgjYy2G7Kuz/s320/honeycomb+electrons.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.5pt;">This scanning
tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a ‘Wigner crystal’
— a honeycomb arrangement of electrons — has formed inside a layered structure
underneath. Credit: H. Li </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">et al./Nature</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the conditions are
just right, some of the electrons inside a material will arrange themselves
into a tidy honeycomb pattern — like a solid within a solid. Physicists have
now directly imaged these ‘Wigner crystals’, named after the Hungarian-born
theorist Eugene Wigner, who first imagined them almost 90 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Researchers had
convincingly created Wigner crystals and measured their properties before, but
this is the first time that anyone has actually taken a snapshot of the
patterns, says study co-author Feng Wang, a physicist at the University of
California, Berkeley. “If you say you have an electron crystal, show me the
crystal,” he says. The results were published on 29 September in <i>Nature</i></span><sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02657-6#ref-CR1"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span></a></span></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">To create the Wigner
crystals, Wang’s team built a device containing atom-thin layers of two similar
semiconductors: tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide. The team then used
an electric field to tune the density of the electrons that moved freely along
the interface between the two layers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In ordinary materials,
electrons zoom around too quickly to be significantly affected by the repulsion
between their negative charges. But Wigner predicted that if electrons
travelled slowly enough, that repulsion would begin to dominate their
behaviour. The electrons would then find arrangements that minimize their total
energy, such as a honeycomb pattern. So Wang and his colleagues slowed the
electrons in their device by cooling it to just a few degrees above absolute
zero.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A mismatch between the
two layers in the device also helped the electrons to form Wigner crystals. The
atoms in each of the two semiconductor layers are slightly different distances
apart, so pairing them together creates a honeycomb ‘moiré pattern’, similar to
that seen when overlaying two grids. That repeating pattern created regions of
slightly lower energy, which helped the electrons settle down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Graphene trick<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The team used a
scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to see this Wigner crystal. In an STM, a
metal tip hovers above the surface of a sample, and a voltage causes electrons
to jump down from the tip, creating an electric current. As the tip moves across
the surface, the changing intensity of the current reveals the location of
electrons in the sample.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Initial attempts to
image the Wigner crystal by applying the STM directly on the double-layer
device were unsuccessful, Wang says, because the current destroyed the fragile
Wigner arrangements. So the team added a layer of graphene, a single-atom sheet
of carbon, on top. The presence of the Wigner crystal slightly changed the
electron structure of the graphene directly above, which was then picked up by
the STM. The images clearly show the neat arrangement of the underlying Wigner
electrons. As expected, consecutive electrons in the Wigner crystal are nearly
100 times farther apart than are the atoms in the semiconductor device’s actual
crystals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I think that’s a
great advancement, being able to perform STM on this system,” says Carmen Rubio
Verdú, a physicist at Columbia University in New York City. She adds that the
same graphene-based method will enable STM studies of a number of other
interesting physical phenomena beyond Wigner crystals. Kin Fai Mak, a physicist
at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, agrees. “The technique is
non-invasive to the state you want to probe. To me, it is a very clever idea.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02657-6"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02657-6</span></a></span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">My two cents: Those frozen electrons reminds me of orange sections and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7475296651918472095/2019542000706418606" target="_blank">autumnal toroidal fruit.</a> Somewhat like the flower of life, but looks more like orange slices arranged in an impossible way, to me.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cyd</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MY_2mV2ppvbCIkvpwiUfNaFF5V271pvTEQcj7Yi7g_VSxkuljtTd8MJyCZVX9nyzZkOEhS3zsnZNpFJulbllFIDhrCnbv6kQA29k9qWKyp5Uy-lU0pI9GwIjGLOLbRMz0Chdtme7Pwv9/s310/peeled_orange_bigger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="310" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MY_2mV2ppvbCIkvpwiUfNaFF5V271pvTEQcj7Yi7g_VSxkuljtTd8MJyCZVX9nyzZkOEhS3zsnZNpFJulbllFIDhrCnbv6kQA29k9qWKyp5Uy-lU0pI9GwIjGLOLbRMz0Chdtme7Pwv9/s0/peeled_orange_bigger.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBch12TfS6E54TAt3IKMjLgEStfAF8iCIYTXF4zFPmXYcHbacZTa-EWakae3qYlHrM9OMwD8DocI_UrGEMgr2p955afSS9MljaJw2dxr5gfRBN_r5K2dQpQuQ3DwsNLbaH5klHb9g5d_zc/s357/torus_squash_toms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBch12TfS6E54TAt3IKMjLgEStfAF8iCIYTXF4zFPmXYcHbacZTa-EWakae3qYlHrM9OMwD8DocI_UrGEMgr2p955afSS9MljaJw2dxr5gfRBN_r5K2dQpQuQ3DwsNLbaH5klHb9g5d_zc/s320/torus_squash_toms.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLtmHmNaqfWYgdDorG-pbFL15uhwYBY29V5i8HU4EEsYvP7jnQExn6TzOYBv-GUE7-8kK_g34LEQJ4H-NUlchD7l2qcAak6KktsVlxB2PGaJZr8Fxi8pDp2Vi5h_wIn9AUzVTpg2HJdWr/s474/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLtmHmNaqfWYgdDorG-pbFL15uhwYBY29V5i8HU4EEsYvP7jnQExn6TzOYBv-GUE7-8kK_g34LEQJ4H-NUlchD7l2qcAak6KktsVlxB2PGaJZr8Fxi8pDp2Vi5h_wIn9AUzVTpg2HJdWr/w400-h400/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJ6IKkgNLCBoAHVOfZ3BwfDg2F9heToZcV1yCaEJRoaiz4YkMkMxDgD4fE4q92W06xShs46LXltjQlsu87B8DjNTg-7h9_TglcbF6szVSM6uN9L3qoET5Q9ug9c70APoUO-wWnOfblE34/s180/floweroflife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJ6IKkgNLCBoAHVOfZ3BwfDg2F9heToZcV1yCaEJRoaiz4YkMkMxDgD4fE4q92W06xShs46LXltjQlsu87B8DjNTg-7h9_TglcbF6szVSM6uN9L3qoET5Q9ug9c70APoUO-wWnOfblE34/w400-h400/floweroflife.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-89433828653628526482021-08-22T16:24:00.037-07:002021-08-22T18:57:41.198-07:00The Great Torus of Jupiter<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">After this many years of writing the Simple Explanation blog, what can I say here other than, "Hey! Look at that torus they're calling Jupiter!" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scientists have known for a few decades that the upper atmosphere of Jupiter is hundreds of degrees warmer than expected. Now they are offering an explanation that looks suspiciously like another planetary torus has been discovered. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Using Hawaii's Keck 2 telescope, scientists looked for positively charged hydrogen particles in Jupiter's atmosphere. They found a ring around the north and south poles and particles coming in (they assume) [or going out, I would conjecture], as well as waves of heat cascading down the outside of the planet. Yes, it can be explained by the way they conjecture the mechanism, or could be explained by the Simple Explanation's toroidal core theory of planetary development. The official imagery certainly implies that as a possible mechanism. We'll await further proof at some later date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03706-w" target="_blank">Meanwhile, here's the link to the original article.</a> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONym1T59u3hglRAIvMVVllHrOd-Y9Qx-gxFRymIrxWCLUAkswXB6zT4wTb6T4n6LGl0d_wjgOKMCUI6z4dIwOyBjLjlUEHMxr_6A7wAw2lvVFFAXTDTAuFrZsSYqbpxejlL-6Fgvcmb20/s1030/080621_sp_jupiter-auroras_feat.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1030" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONym1T59u3hglRAIvMVVllHrOd-Y9Qx-gxFRymIrxWCLUAkswXB6zT4wTb6T4n6LGl0d_wjgOKMCUI6z4dIwOyBjLjlUEHMxr_6A7wAw2lvVFFAXTDTAuFrZsSYqbpxejlL-6Fgvcmb20/s320/080621_sp_jupiter-auroras_feat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><header class="wrapper header-default__wrapper___35oLr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 2.75rem; max-width: 57.0836rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(66.6667vw - 2.9164rem);"><figure class="header-default__figure___1N2fo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figcaption class="header-default__figcaption___fwdFy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #31313b; font: inherit; margin: 0.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="header-default__caption___1B6mW" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></span></figcaption></figure></header></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Jupiter’s magnetic field lines (blue) steer charged particles in the solar wind toward</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">the planet’s poles, generating auroras (white) similar to Earth’s. High-altitude winds </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">then carry heat (red) from the auroras toward Jupiter’s equator, warming the planet’s </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">upper atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s illustration, which overlays a visible </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">light image of the planet.</p><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"><span class="header-default__caption___1B6mW" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span class="header-default__credit___34nDz" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">J. O'DONOGHUE/JAXA, HUBBLE/NASA, ESA, A. SIMON, J. SCHMIDT</p><p><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;">J. O’Donoghue </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #31313b; font-family: museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">et al</em><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;">. </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03706-w" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #176cab; font-family: museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Global upper-atmospheric heating on Jupiter by the polar aurorae</a><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;">. </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #31313b; font-family: museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nature.</em><span face="museo-sans, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #31313b; font-size: 12px;"> Vol. 596, August 5, 2021, p. 54. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03706-w.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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Here's the abstract of the study, published at <a href="http://PubMed.gov">PubMed.gov</a>--</span></p><header class="heading" id="heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #212121; font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 3.6rem;"><div class="full-view" id="full-view-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="heading-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 2.6rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields</h1><div class="inline-authors" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #5b616b; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.2rem;"><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="authors-list" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="authors-list-item " style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block;"><a class="full-name" data-ga-action="author_link" data-ga-category="search" data-ga-label="Martin Blank" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Blank+M&cauthor_id=21457072" ref="linksrc=author_name_link" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0071bc; display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;">Martin Blank</a><span class="affiliation-links" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="author-sup-separator" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span><a class="affiliation-link" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21457072/#affiliation-1" ref="linksrc=author_aff" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 2px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #323a45; display: inline-block; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0.1rem 0.3rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" title="Department of Physiology, Columbia University, New York 10032, USA. mb32@columbia.edu">1</a></span><span class="comma" style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </span></span><span class="authors-list-item " style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block;"><a class="full-name" data-ga-action="author_link" data-ga-category="search" data-ga-label="Reba Goodman" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Goodman+R&cauthor_id=21457072" ref="linksrc=author_name_link" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0071bc; display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;">Reba Goodman</a></span></div></div></div><div class="short-article-details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.3rem;">Affiliations <button aria-controls="expanded-authors" aria-expanded="false" class="more-details" data-alt-text="Collapse" data-fetch-url="/21457072/long-authors/" data-id-prefix="" data-pinger-ignore="" id="toggle-authors" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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display: inline-block; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="identifier doi" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="id-label" style="box-sizing: inherit;">DOI: </span><a class="id-link" data-ga-action="DOI" data-ga-category="full_text" href="https://doi.org/10.3109/09553002.2011.538130" ref="linksrc=article_id_link&article_id=10.3109/09553002.2011.538130&id_type=DOI" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0071bc; font-size: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">10.3109/09553002.2011.538130</a></span></li></ul></div></header><div class="abstract" id="abstract" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #212121; font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 3.6rem 0px 0px; position: relative; word-break: break-word;"><h2 class="title" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; margin-top: 3.6rem;">Abstract</h2><div class="abstract-content selected" id="enc-abstract" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: left;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><strong class="sub-title" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Purpose: </strong>To review the responses of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in different frequency ranges, and characterize the properties of DNA as an antenna.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><strong class="sub-title" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Materials and methods: </strong>We examined published reports of increased stress protein levels and DNA strand breaks due to EMF interactions, both of which are indicative of DNA damage. We also considered antenna properties such as electronic conduction within DNA and its compact structure in the nucleus.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><strong class="sub-title" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Results: </strong>EMF interactions with DNA are similar over a range of non-ionising frequencies, i.e., extremely low frequency (ELF) and radio frequency (RF) ranges. There are similar effects in the ionising range, but the reactions are more complex.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><strong class="sub-title" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Conclusions: </strong>The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment, and the DNA damage could account for increases in cancer epidemiology, as well as variations in the rate of chemical evolution in early geologic history.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;">***************************************</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;">The conclusion of the article is the important part to the Simple Explanation. It is saying that DNA reacts to electromagnetic frequencies at varying scales of transmission, as the EMFs cause the DNA to respond to them as if they were antennas set up to receive these transmissions. Because the DNA vibrates to these external frequencies, the huge proliferation of EMF devices in our environment constantly bombard our DNA with vibrations at a fractal scale small enough to cause changes to the DNA. Although I haven't talked about the 5G networks here before, be assured that 5G exposure is extremely dangerous to our DNA. I will be avoiding it like the plague. A real plague, that is, not this excuse-of-a-plague everyone is freaking out over. Masks won't help stop EMF bombardment!</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><a href="http://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2011/01/simple-fractal-model-of-conscious.html" target="_blank">Back to the <i>Simple Explanation</i>, our bodies are made up of fractals of consciousness.</a> The Simple Explanation calls these consciousness fractals UCs, which stands for Units of Consciousness.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTHiZcYtAX__hhZppHT8y5fWP8eNbsuk5zVydC4uteJK7wnDpC3C_DCTa4S-XA_ACux97Etabtz-C24opqE17o6wuA2-snyQAstrZOuXfixQr8-iuPNqhyKmwLma9CDRf4OLMyPnNO4zq/s960/humanhierarchy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTHiZcYtAX__hhZppHT8y5fWP8eNbsuk5zVydC4uteJK7wnDpC3C_DCTa4S-XA_ACux97Etabtz-C24opqE17o6wuA2-snyQAstrZOuXfixQr8-iuPNqhyKmwLma9CDRf4OLMyPnNO4zq/w400-h300/humanhierarchy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><a href="http://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-scientific-proof-mind-is-not-brain.html" target="_blank">And our brains are made up of fractal neuronal antennae that pick up information from our environment in exactly the same way these DNA strands pick up EMFs.</a></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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or Aliens? </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Gnostic Interpretation of Ancient Aliens Theory</span></b></h2><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Cyd Charise Ropp,
Ph.D.</span></h4><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the lost months of the 2020 shutdown, I spent much of my
time watching the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens." I began with a
skeptical mind, but was soon persuaded by the variety of evidence presented.
Many years earlier I had read Erich von Danikens’ <u>Chariots of the Gods</u>,
so I had the basic outline of ancient alien theory already in my head. I had
also read Whitley Streiber’s <u>Communion</u> when it came out, so I felt I had
a passing familiarity with the concept of alien abductions. But the evidence
presented on "Ancient Aliens" goes far beyond those early revelations. By this
point in time, only a dedicated naysayer could remain completely skeptical. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s the ancient aliens theory: that a variety of aliens
from off-planet have been visiting our earth for thousands, if not millions, of
years. That the stories told around the world by ancient human cultures of gods
descending from the sky and living among them are true histories and not mere
fables. That ancient aliens have given knowledge to humanity, particularly technological
knowledge, to assist in the progress of human culture. That ancient aliens may
have edited our DNA to make us into the modern human form we see today, and
that they are possibly continuing to edit our DNA by means of alien abductions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, it is even suggested that our
entire ecosystem may have been seeded by aliens from the get-go, including the
placement of our moon to stabilize earth’s axis and to create tidal motion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I persuaded my brother, Bill, to watch the program with me,
and so it is that we have watched and discussed every episode of their
15-season run that has been rebroadcast over the past couple of years, some
more than once. Yes, many of the stories presented in the series overlap, and
most of the evidence shows up time and again with the same commentary attached,
yet my brother and I have found the repetition helpful in our effort to discern
the truth of various aspects of the ancient aliens claim.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bill and I are nothing if not open-minded, yet we anchor our
gullibility with an unusually well-developed sense of logic and critical
thinking. As you know, both of us are PhDs with specialties in Philosophy and Rhetoric, and we have both taught critical thinking and logic at universities. So
do not come away with the idea that we uncritically bought every claim hook,
line, and sinker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have paid special attention to the question continually
raised by the ancient aliens theorists—were these “gods” of the pre-flood era
merely misinterpreted alien visitors with alien tech? Are the “fallen angels”
of the Book Enoch angels from God, or were they actually ancient astronauts who
moved to earth and occasionally married human women? It is said that the
worldwide flood was sent by God to wipe out the angel-human offspring known as Nephilim.
What were the Nephilim and what God would have wiped out the entire earth and
everyone on it to kill them off, and how is it that some humans were spared by
warnings from “angels”? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As observed by the program’s resident theorists, these types
of stories can be taken as fables or as true histories and, if histories, are
these actually the Biblical God, angels, and the gods of ancient cultures, or
are they actually advanced, off-planet aliens who are apparently engaged in
disagreements over human destiny, with sometimes catastrophic consequences?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the questions that have occupied
much discussion between Bill and me over the past couple of years, and they
have run on a parallel track to our Gnostic Theology pursuits as we untangle the
differences and origins of archons, aeons, angels, and fallen angels, and the
difference between the God Above All Gods and the God of this world. I am happy
to announce that we have turned a rhetorical corner and landed upon some sound
hypotheses at last. Perhaps you can use our analysis the next time you consider
the role of extra-terrestrials in our world. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I realize that the following memes I’m going to share with
you may sound new and strange unless you have previously studied gnostic
cosmology. If you are new to Gnostic Insights, I encourage you to go to the
GnosticInsights.com website and open the menu tab called “The Gnostic Gospel
Primer.” There you will find a Valentinian Gnostic cosmology based upon the
Tripartite Tractate book of the Nag Hammadi library. These initial eight
episodes lay out in a clear and understandable way the basic cosmology of our
universe and the origins of all things. The story is not difficult to
understand, but it helps to listen to it from the beginning and go in order.
There you will find episodes describing the God Above All Gods, as well as
entities known as Aeons which dwell in a space called the Fullness of God, also
known as the Pleroma. Aeons, by virtue of the fact that they dwell in the
Pleroma, are by definition a type of ET.<o:p></o:p></p>
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi838KoS6ATqrGUe8CV-J07HSNwpSc1UkaJezBSq_MTml__X1qwocukDLi_a5EjqjZ5K9LApMy8RAkKeiHwfR0NJZfjVwbCNhDtXj_FR5fTJCP5SfX8XdLhZZZUkk8N0j2d66OL4yCd-N2C/s855/Sardinian+Well.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi838KoS6ATqrGUe8CV-J07HSNwpSc1UkaJezBSq_MTml__X1qwocukDLi_a5EjqjZ5K9LApMy8RAkKeiHwfR0NJZfjVwbCNhDtXj_FR5fTJCP5SfX8XdLhZZZUkk8N0j2d66OL4yCd-N2C/s320/Sardinian+Well.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">This ancient well in Sardinia, Italy, the Santa Christina
well, is said to represent the “keyhole shape” found throughout the ancient
world. To me, it looks like the Pleroma.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ancient alien theorists speak of ETs directing evolution to
create our intelligent hominid species. Ancient alien theorists call into
question the mainstream theory of evolution. They rightly point out that this
planet of ours has not been around long enough for evolution to have
spontaneously bumbled upon our exquisite design. They even call into question
the premise that life on earth evolved randomly from a primordial soup into
ever-increasing complexity and function. “Pan-spermia” has been proposed as a
method by which primitive alien life forms hitchhiked their way across the heavens
on asteroids to seed our oceans. According to ancient alien theorists, ETs
probably interfered throughout ancient history to promote life on earth,
including many interventions in protohumans to direct our upward evolution.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tend to agree with much of what they say about the
impossibility of Darwinian evolution to achieve our current biosphere. I invite
you to listen to the Gnostic Insights podcast called “Evolution and Conscious
Aeonic Design,” which you can find at the Gnostic Insights.com website menu
under the tab “Complete Episodes Library.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that episode I call into question Darwinian
evolution in favor of the same sort of planned evolution promoted by the
ancient alien theorists. But where they identify “ETs” as the source, I
identify those ETs as Aeons of the Fullness directing evolution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Episode Four of the Gnostic Insights Primer describes these
Aeons that came before this universe. The Aeons populate the Fullness of God in
the Pleroma, and they consist of names, places, personalities, powers, and
forces, all arranged in a hierarchy, each of them representing a quality of God
that would come to realization in this cosmos in which we dwell. It is through
their intervention in our universe that evolution occurs to bring about their
vision of our material cosmos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply
ascribing evolution to the intervention of flesh and blood ETs merely pushes
back the same ontological problems of random evolution—order cannot arise
spontaneously out of disorder. 52 card pickup never finds the cards stacked in
suits, and endless games of 52 card pickup over billions of years simply cannot
achieve endless results of order from chaos. The physics of entropy always wins
out. No matter how many times you toss the components of life up into the air,
they never assemble themselves into complex working structures on the way down.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What is true for physical evolution is also true of
technological innovation. Ancient alien theorists point out that our most
important technological innovations are often discovered simultaneously by
multiple inventors worldwide. Whether it’s old tech such as language, medicine,
metallurgy, and architecture, or new tech such as radio, relativity theory, and
the telephone, these inventions appear without evolutionary precedent, arriving
fully formed to multiple people, often through dreams and visions. The ancient
alien theorists ascribe these technological innovations to ETs guiding our
development, either through physical manifestation as the benevolent gods of
ancient earth cultures, or nowadays through the transpersonal field or Askashic
record. They suggest the Akashic record is a pre-scripted, computer-type code,
existing in a transdimensional space, that humans are programmed to access as
needed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ancient alien theorist include our DNA as a form of proof of
non-evolutionary technological leaps, as our modern human form does not appear
to have evolved from more primitive versions. Yes, there were numerous
protohumans, but they all mysteriously disappeared by the end of the last ice
age, or the time of the great flood.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I agree that there is a transpersonal field, which is the
repository of our collective memes—all that were, are, and will be. But I
ascribe this transpersonal field to the divine dimension of the mind of the
Universal Unit of Consciousness as described in my Simple Explanation blog and
book. And I would agree that we are triggered to access this field as needed.
It happens all the time in our daily lives for all sorts of information. Same
thing holds true for inventors who see a need and whose contemplation leads
them into the field for solutions. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ancient alien theorists suggest that it is our
familiarity with the field that is leading us in the trans-human direction of
hooking our human brains up to a computer-mediated “cloud” so we can access
information on demand and even download our complete consciousness, thereby
achieving non-material immortality. Here I strongly disagree. I would say that
the force behind such a drive for incorporeal immortality has two motivations. One
motivation is our innate spiritual connectivity to the Fullness of God, the
Son, and the Father, which promises the continuation of our immortal souls
after death. The other motivation is from the other side of the coin—that of
the archonic desire to achieve god-like status, including omniscience and
immortality, without the benefit of God’s will and blessing. In other words,
it’s replay of the presumptuous thought that brought about the Fall of Logos.
It seems clear to me that our tech billionaires who are leading the way with
transhumanism and space exploration are themselves personally playing out the
Fall of Logos in their attempt to play God. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Again, if you have not listened to the Gnostic Insights
Primer episodes, you will find a full episode devoted to the Fall of Logos and
its cosmic consequences. You will find these episodes at the Gnostic
Insights.com website under the menu tab labeled “The Gnostic Gospel Primer.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ancient alien theorists suggest that ancient astronauts
developed our planet in order to create a sentient species fit to house the Ba,
or soul, as described by ancient Egyptians. They theorize that ETs created
humans to be vessels for souls, which implies that without their intervention,
creatures do not have souls. Of all the theories proposed, this one strikes me
as completely off-base. I would say that all creatures have souls. According to
Gnostic cosmology, all creatures are the fruit of the Aeons. The Aeons sent
their fruit into creation in order to populate creation with the Fullness of
God. This fruit is called the Second Order of Powers, and we are all Second
Order Powers, from bacteria on up to humans and beyond. If the universe is
indeed populated by extra terrestrial life forms, then these, too, would be
Second Order Powers because all life forms are. And all of us Second Order
Powers possess souls.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is, however, one type of entity in the universe that
does not possess a soul, because these entities are not creatures from the
Fullness of God. These entities are called archons. Archons are the inverted
shadows of Aeons. Archons are incorporeal waves of entropy that emanate from
the Demiurge. Archons are not "fallen angels" because they never were
angels. We know these archons as demonic forces that frustrate and bedevil us in
order to feed off of our negative energy. The world's bad habits and cruelty
are shepherded by archons. They are the forces the Second Order Powers were
sent to do battle with in a never-ending war for dominion of the cosmos. For
more on this topic, listen to Episode Five of The Gnostic Gospel Primer called
"The Deficiency and Boundary." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Knowing what we know about archons, we can identify the
non-physical entity known as Satan as an archon. Satan is also called The
Accuser, and he is the source of temptation and illness, and the head of an
army of demons or archons. Traditional theology identifies Satan as a fallen
angel who rebelled against God because God elevated humans above angels. I
would reinterpret this myth in a Gnostic way by saying that the God against
whom Satan rebelled was not the Father God Above All Gods, but rather the God
of this world, who is called the Demiurge in Gnostic texts. It is the Demiurge
that Satan sprang from and it is the Demiurge with whom Satan struck the wager
concerning the fate of Job. Satan is also credited with advancing human
technology.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The archons appear to be very interested in advancing human
technology. I suspect this is because it is easier to distract, delude, and even
destroy humanity via technology than with any other means. Not only war
technology and weaponry, but more benign appearing helpful technologies. I'm
sure I don't need to tell you how destructive and divisive the internet has
become through the innovation of social media. And how appealing and
irresistible television has become! Then there is the realm of virtual reality—a
realm controlled by archons who want nothing more than to delude and ensnare
human souls. This type of delusion and division is the bread and butter of
archons. So, when ancient aliens theorists point out the leaps made in
technological innovation by the influence of incorporeal beings, I suspect
archons at play.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which brings us to angels. Angels are described as beings
who appear to be trans-dimensional. By that I mean that sometimes they appear
as physical humans and sometimes they appear as incorporeal light beings. They
can physically touch humans, as when Peter was awakened in his prison cell by
an angel's touch, yet the same angel can pass through solid walls, as recounted
in Acts 12:7. It is said that angels were sent to earth to protect and assist
humans, and 70% of Americans believe they have a guardian angel. In Gnostic
cosmology, it appears that angels are a type of being created by the Fullness
of God, specifically for the benefit of humans, to assist them in the
never-ending war against the archons. Angels are possibly aeonic personalities
that have come from the Pleroma to assist. Therefore, when ancient alien
theorists tell of incidents where non-corporeal beings appear as light forms to
interfere in a positive manner with human technology, these are angels. Examples
of angelic interference include the occasions where mysterious forces have
appeared above U.S. ICBM sites and disabled nuclear-armed missles in their
silos. These beings have also appeared outside the windows of the International
Space Station and U.S. space missions to the moon. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So far we have identified Aeons, archons, and angels as
entities who insert themselves into human affairs. But what of actual
off-world, flesh and blood ETs from other planets and galaxies? Do they really
exist? Yes, the remainder of encounters appear to be ETs. Ancient alien
theorists propose that in the days before the flood, "gods" lived
side by side with humans and occasionally took human women as sexual partners.
These ETs claimed to have come from the star systems of Sirius and Orion in
particular. These ETs had advanced technologies that they shared with the
humans around them. They designed the ancient monolithic structures, including
the pyramids found around the earth on every continent. They were the ones who
used their tech to levitate gigantic boulders into place in stone structures
all over the earth. Many of them appeared to have elongated skulls and green or
blue skin. Some of them had reptilian, birdlike, or insectoid features, and
some appeared to have non-human heads of canines, lions, and other animals. The
Book of Enoch reports that some ETs mated with human women and produced
monstrous offspring known as the Nephilim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Enoch says that the great flood unleashed to cleanse the earth of these
hybrid abominations, as they were not part of God's plan for humanity. After
the flood, the ETs on earth seem to have retreated or gone into hiding.
Occasional modern sightings of strange humanoid creatures living deep
underground, under the ocean, or under the ice of Antarctica, hint at their
possible continued presence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwULjnCMA0Scoyaiz30Ghuu50Qrw-Euq5rCruWYPLGVL-irZlf_iu1YILX6Z341i10H9eGbzHv1CndwHGca6zyGxwTP01nsAriSsq-CqnBKlQy5NLBb75eFz6gFzU0gkt-KoooQRU1ZdZ4/s591/525px-Himmelserscheinung_%25C3%25BCber_N%25C3%25BCrnberg_vom_14._April_1561.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="525" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwULjnCMA0Scoyaiz30Ghuu50Qrw-Euq5rCruWYPLGVL-irZlf_iu1YILX6Z341i10H9eGbzHv1CndwHGca6zyGxwTP01nsAriSsq-CqnBKlQy5NLBb75eFz6gFzU0gkt-KoooQRU1ZdZ4/s320/525px-Himmelserscheinung_%25C3%25BCber_N%25C3%25BCrnberg_vom_14._April_1561.jpg" /></a><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;">
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</tbody></table>It is my opinion that the extra-terrestrials can be thought of as Second Order
Powers just like us. It is often suggested by ancient alien theorists that the
ET civilizations may be a million years more advanced than our own, and that is
how it is they have interstellar flight and other advanced powers and
technology. Looking at this theory with a Gnostic eye, it is my theory that we
can think of their home planets as exactly like ours, but far ahead of us in time.
In keeping with the concept of fractals, I suggest that these ET civilizations
advanced with the aid of Aeonic design, and struggled with their own archonic
influences, exactly as we do now. It is highly likely that civilizations all
eventually fall as the egos of the ETs struggle against one another for
dominion and control, even as we do—a fractal replication of the Fall of Logos.
Ancient alien theorists point to evidence of space battles above and on earth
in the past, including a notable battle above Nuremberg in 1561.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just as we are planning to do, it is likely that ETs sent
out their own exploration and colonization missions, and that some of them came
to planet earth. They probably had the same motivations that our own tech
billionaires have—preservation of their genetic line against future
catastrophes married to the archonic drive to be as gods and terraform worlds
to their own ends. There is also pictorial evidence that some of these ETs may
have been robots given the task of seeking out and terraforming worlds. It is
also quite possible that the civilizations that sent out the ET missions have
already destroyed themselves through plague or warfare. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, let us turn to the question of the ultimate ET:
God. Who and What Is He?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Episode Two of the Gnostic Insights podcasts describes the
attributes of the Father, also known as the God Above All Gods. Briefly, the
Father is the Illimitable, Eternal, Omniscient Consciousness that underlies our
reality. The Father does not look or sound like anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t hold conversations the way we do. The
Father is undifferentiated consciousness itself. This Consciousness is the
ground state from which all subsequent events emerge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Possibly the most egregious heresy in Gnosticism is the
proposition that the God of the Old Testament, Creator of Heaven and Earth, the
Jealous God of the Hebrews, Yahweh, or Jehovah, is not the Father on High that
Jesus called Father. The God of this earth is known to Gnostics as the
Demiurge, and He arose as a result of the Fall of Logos the Aeon due to Logos’s
presumptuous thought. To learn more about this topic in depth, please listen to
Episode Four of the Gnostic Insights podcast. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The God of the Old Testament, Yahweh, is more tangible than
the Father Above. Yahweh has discussions with humans as well as with entities
such as Satan. He uses language and engages in prolonged conversations, as when
He gave precise building instructions for the ark to Noah. He even makes wagers
over Job and appears to change his mind regarding the sacrifice of Isaac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When people refer to God as an old white man
with a beard, it is the image of the Demiurge to which they refer, not the
undifferentiated consciousness of the Father. This Demiurge character is the
God Yahweh, the God of this world and the God of the Hebrews especially. It is
the Demiurge that has a special relationship with the children of Abraham.
Yahweh takes care of the Hebrews when they pray to Him and follow His rules,
and He has arranged a variety of cataclysms, plagues, and floods, to preserve
their particular line of DNA. Yahweh favors the Hebrews in battles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, it seems to me that when ancient alien theorists
refer to God as having sent the world wide cataclysm and flood that wiped out
the Nephilim and all but about 3,000 surviving humans, it is the work of the
Demiurge calling himself God. This is the jealous God who wants sole control of
the earth and the God who is angered by uppity archons like Satan and other "fallen angels." This is the
God who wants Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on the mountain as a show of
faith. But it was a true angel of the true Father Above who stayed Abraham's
hand and saved Isaac's life. It is the Demiurge who tired of his people's
captivity in Egypt and sent the plagues so the Pharoah would release the
Hebrew slaves and who parted the seas to make good their escape. But it was
true angels from the true God who protected the Hebrews during their 40 year
trek through the desert, guiding them with their light bodies and feeding them
with mana.</p>Well, there you have it. Aeons, archons, angels, or
aliens?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope these distinctions help
you sort out the ancient aliens theory.<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-13719086098643866382021-07-06T06:46:00.002-07:002021-07-06T06:46:14.790-07:00Birth of Planets in Orion Nebula<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">These NASA/Hubble images are thought to be planetary proplyds, or the beginnings of planets surrounding stars in the Orion nebula. Their press release says, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The brighter discs are indicated by a glowing cusp in the excited material and facing the bright star, but which we see at a random orientation within the nebula, so some appear edge on, and others face on, for instance. Other interesting features enhance the look of these captivating objects, such as emerging jets of matter and shock waves."</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJHSwM7O_aRwsLUEBvQ4353Dcijb9JQVmCijxwV0p4LMtM7H_0QHdEU0MLhrQeZUcy7AAoqGxnUKVhoqNNh-u0dzc8UdZuvJwPQ8LAbTCV9C08p9xjioz7MfKvpg2pLWm95SQV-qm_0Ct/s1280/proplyds-30+Orion+Nebula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJHSwM7O_aRwsLUEBvQ4353Dcijb9JQVmCijxwV0p4LMtM7H_0QHdEU0MLhrQeZUcy7AAoqGxnUKVhoqNNh-u0dzc8UdZuvJwPQ8LAbTCV9C08p9xjioz7MfKvpg2pLWm95SQV-qm_0Ct/w640-h480/proplyds-30+Orion+Nebula.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">You can tell that many of these objects appear to be toruses surrounding stars. One image in particular resembles a developing zygote--look at the fourth row down and the fourth image in from the left. You can clearly see the opening at the top of the torus and can easily imagine the toroidal funnel going down to the center and out the bottom.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvoSfODIrMBl9htOWPzTPHinPuN9vuTQitFawssZqkMmEDOScETWZCTvbtZY7m9-cy7xAUn8leNurOfIBMmqXkS6mYZrmWAn0PCCVqGTETWb8uJsQ1GcUjrrhkW98cSA_EBxDLM3RFFyU/s580/zygote+in+Orion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="580" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvoSfODIrMBl9htOWPzTPHinPuN9vuTQitFawssZqkMmEDOScETWZCTvbtZY7m9-cy7xAUn8leNurOfIBMmqXkS6mYZrmWAn0PCCVqGTETWb8uJsQ1GcUjrrhkW98cSA_EBxDLM3RFFyU/s320/zygote+in+Orion.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Now compare the image above to this image of a developing mouse embryo. It appears that a similar dynamic mechanism is involved in both cases.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: libre franklin, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: libre franklin, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0eiKVcCuhcLxynp0aCYUWts_ILIbSjmy7ED_1l0vcmXrX-4cHXxldK54DePLu9Ww0o1-RquySC_7lLwIZBUpet5GhZQPrIerZheJzoCXnxAP3MdSCdswGtbRF_54NObiBCV9f6fOYHxH/s860/mouse_100918_cm_mouseembryo_feat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0eiKVcCuhcLxynp0aCYUWts_ILIbSjmy7ED_1l0vcmXrX-4cHXxldK54DePLu9Ww0o1-RquySC_7lLwIZBUpet5GhZQPrIerZheJzoCXnxAP3MdSCdswGtbRF_54NObiBCV9f6fOYHxH/s320/mouse_100918_cm_mouseembryo_feat.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: libre franklin, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2018/07/first-confirmed-image-of-birth-of.html" target="_blank">In 2018 I posted this article on the torus of a newly forming planet, which you can access here.</a></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: libre franklin, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2020/03/fertilized-eggs-and-our-expanding.html" target="_blank">Then again in 2020 I posted an article noting the similarities between a newly fertilized egg and swirling patterns of massive systems.</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ-ES243pIUOgPWvCIKeOlcvuJC6pS6AyOmKzz0Gtt19V2cwpS4uCI0TTUdbotqBtQ26dfTXTWAwXKHu1ErKnMzaHDCuuoMuh6RI79U9bNFSnh7svIV0-avVLH7VPuLCa9HFZkgZXQXHU_/s500/egg+swirls.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ-ES243pIUOgPWvCIKeOlcvuJC6pS6AyOmKzz0Gtt19V2cwpS4uCI0TTUdbotqBtQ26dfTXTWAwXKHu1ErKnMzaHDCuuoMuh6RI79U9bNFSnh7svIV0-avVLH7VPuLCa9HFZkgZXQXHU_/s320/egg+swirls.gif" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">MIT researchers were surprised to discover that the swirling patterns precisely mirror other systems, from atmospheric hurricanes to ocean circulation hydrodynamics to quantum fluids. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;" /></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As you can see, the swirling patterns emanate from a central interior position and spread over the surface of the egg. You can also see the depression on the far side of the egg begin to appear as it prepares to sink inward toward the middle, where it will eventually form the hollow tube of the organism's gut.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I predict that when NASA/Hubble is able to photograph the planetary proplyds as motion pictures, we will see the same exact swirling patterns found in embryos and hurricanes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As above, so below.</span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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Lush or Dead</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">BY DAVID GRINSPOON </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; line-height: 107%;">JANUARY 12, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Can
a planet be alive? Lynn Margulis, a giant of late 20th-century biology, who had
an incandescent intellect that veered toward the unorthodox, thought so. She
and chemist James Lovelock together theorized that life must be a
planet-altering phenomenon and the distinction between the “living” and
“nonliving” parts of Earth is not as clear-cut as we think. Many members of the
scientific community derided their theory, called the Gaia hypothesis, as pseudoscience,
and questioned their scientific integrity. But now Margulis and Lovelock may
have their revenge. Recent scientific discoveries are giving us reason to take
this hypothesis more seriously. At its core is an insight about the
relationship between planets and life that has changed our understanding of
both, and is shaping how we look for life on other worlds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Studying
Earth’s global biosphere together, Margulis and Lovelock realized that it has
some of the properties of a life form. It seems to display “homeostasis,” or
self</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">regulation. Many of
Earth’s life</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">sustaining qualities
exhibit remarkable stability. The temperature range of the climate; the oxygen
content of the atmosphere; the pH, chemistry, and salinity of the ocean—all
these are biologically mediated. All have, for hundreds of millions of years,
stayed within a range where life can thrive. Lovelock and Margulis surmised
that the totality of life is interacting with its environments in ways that
regulate these global qualities. They recognized that Earth is, in a sense, a
living organism. Lovelock named this creature Gaia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Margulis
and Lovelock showed that the Darwinian picture of biological evolution is
incomplete. Darwin identified the mechanism by which life adapts due to changes
in the environment, and thus allowed us to see that all life on Earth is a
continuum, a proliferation, a genetic diaspora from a common root. In the
Darwinian view, Earth was essentially a stage with a series of changing
backdrops to which life had to adjust. Yet, what or who was changing the sets?
Margulis and Lovelock proposed that the drama of life does not unfold on the
stage of a dead Earth, but that, rather, the stage itself is animated, part of
a larger living entity, Gaia, composed of the biosphere together with the
“nonliving” components that shape, respond to, and cycle through the biota of
Earth. Yes, life adapts to environmental change, shaping itself through natural
selection. Yet life also pushes back and changes the environment, alters the
planet. This is now as obvious as the air you are breathing, which has been
oxygenated by life. So evolution is not a series of adaptations to inanimate
events, but a system of feedbacks, an exchange. Life has not simply molded
itself to the shifting contours of a dynamic Earth. Rather, life and Earth have
shaped each other as they’ve co-evolved. When you start looking at the planet
in this way, then you see coral reefs, limestone cliffs, deltas, bogs, and
islands of bat guano as parts of this larger animated entity. You realize that
the entire skin of Earth, and its depths as well, are indeed alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
acceptance of the Gaia hypothesis was, and remains, slow, halting, and
incomplete. There are several reasons for this. One is just the usual inertia,
the standard conservative reluctance to accept new ways of thinking. Yet Gaia
was also accused of being vague and shifting. Some complained that the “Gaians”
had failed to present an original, well</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">defined, testable scientific proposition. How can you evaluate,
oppose, or embrace an idea that is not clearly stated, or that seems to mean
different things to different people? There was certainly some truth to this.
Gaia has been stated many different ways. Also, it didn’t help that Margulis
and Lovelock were more than willing to mix science with philosophy and poetry,
and they didn’t mind controversy; in fact, I’d say they enjoyed and courted it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
truth is, despite its widespread moniker, Gaia is not really a hypothesis. It’s
a perspective, an approach from within which to pursue the science of life on a
planet, a living planet, which is not the same as a planet with life on
it—that’s really the point, simple but profound. Because life is not a minor
afterthought on an already functioning Earth, but an integral part of the
planet’s evolution and behavior. Over the last few decades, the Gaians have
pretty much won the battle. The opposition never actually surrendered or
admitted defeat, but mainstream earth science has dropped its disciplinary
shields and joined forces with chemistry, climatology, theoretical biology, and
several other “</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">ologies” and renamed itself “earth system science.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Gaia approach, prompted by the space-age comparison of Earth with its
apparently lifeless neighbors, has led to a deepening realization of how
thoroughly altered our planet is by its inhabitants. When we compare the life
story of Earth to that of its siblings, we see that very early on in its
development, as soon as the sterilizing impact rain subsided so that life could
get a toehold, Earth started down a different path. Ever since that juncture,
life and Earth have been co-evolving in a continuing dance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">As
we’ve studied Earth with space-age tools, seen her whole from a distance,
drilled the depths of the ocean floor, and, with the magic glasses of
multispectral imaging, mapped the global biogeochemical cycles of elements,
nutrients, and energy, we’ve learned that life’s influence is more profound and
pervasive than we ever suspected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">All
this oxygen we take for granted is the byproduct of life intervening in our
planet’s geochemical cycles: harvesting solar energy to split water molecules,
keeping the hydrogen atoms and reacting them with CO</span><sub><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">2</span></sub><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> to make organic food and body parts, but spitting the
oxygen back out. In Earth’s upper atmosphere some of this oxygen, under the
influence of ultraviolet light, is transformed into ozone, O</span><sub><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">3</span></sub><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, which shields Earth’s surface from deadly ultraviolet, making
the land surface habitable. When it appeared, this shield allowed life to leave
the ocean and the continents to become green with forests. That’s right: It was
life that rendered the once deadly continents habitable for life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
more we look through a Gaian lens, the more we see that nearly every aspect of
our planet has been biologically distorted beyond recognition. Earth’s rocks
contain more than 4,000 different minerals (the crystalline molecules that make
up rocks). This is a much more varied smorgasbord of mineral types than we have
seen on any other world. Geochemists studying the mineral history of Earth have
concluded that by far the majority of these would not exist without the
presence of life on our planet. So, on Earth’s life</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">altered surface, the
very rocks themselves are biological byproducts. A big leap in this mineral
diversity occurred after life oxygenated Earth’s atmosphere, leading to a
plethora of new oxidized minerals that sprinkled colorful rocks throughout
Earth’s sediments. Observed on a distant planet, such vast and varied mineral
diversity could be a sign of a living world, so this is a potential
biosignature (or Gaiasignature) we can add to the more commonly cited Lovelock
criterion of searching for atmospheric gases that have been knocked out of
equilibrium by life. In fact, minerals and life seem to have fed off each other
going all the way back to the beginning. Evidence has increased that minerals
were vital catalysts and physical substrates for the origin of life on Earth.
Is it really a huge leap, then, to regard the mineral surface of Earth as part
of a global living system, part of the body of Gaia?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">What
about plate tectonics and the dynamics of Earth’s deep interior? At first
glance this seems like a giant mechanical system—a heat engine—that does not
depend upon biology, but rather (lucky for life), supports it. Also, although
we’re probably still largely ignorant about the deeply buried parts of Earth’s
biosphere, it’s unlikely there are any living organisms deeper than a couple of
miles down in the crust, where it gets too hot for organic molecules. Yet, just
as we’ve found that life’s sway has extended into the upper atmosphere,
creating the ozone layer that allowed the biosphere to envelop the continents,
more and more we see that life has also influenced these deeper subterranean
realms. Over its long life, Gaia has altered not just the skin but also the
guts of Earth, pulling carbon from the mantle and piling it on the surface in
sedimentary rocks, and sequestering massive amounts of nitrogen from the air
into ammonia stored inside the crystals of mantle rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">By
controlling the chemical state of the atmosphere, life has also altered the
rocks it comes into contact with, and so oxygenated the crust and mantle of
Earth. This changes the material properties of the rocks, how they bend and
break, squish, fold, and melt under various forces and conditions. All the clay
minerals produced by Earth’s biosphere soften Earth’s crust—the crust of a
lifeless planet is harder—helping to lubricate the plate tectonic engine. The
wetness of Earth seems to explain why plate tectonics has persisted on Earth
and not on its dry twin, Venus. One of the more extreme claims of the Gaia
camp, at present neither proven nor refuted, is that the influence of life over
the eons has helped Earth hold on to her life</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">giving water, while Venus and Mars, lifeless through most
of their existence, lost theirs. If so, then life may indeed be responsible for
Earth’s plate tectonics. One of the original architects of plate tectonic
theory, Norm Sleep from Stanford, has become thoroughly convinced that life is
deeply implicated in the overall physical dynamics of Earth, including the
“nonliving” interior domain. In describing the cumulative, long-term influence
of life on geology, continent building, and plate tectonics, he wrote, “The net
effect is Gaian. That is, life has modified Earth to its advantage.” The more
we study Earth, the more we see this. Life has got Earth in its clutches. Earth
is a biologically modulated planet through and through. In a nontrivial way, it
is a living planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Now,
40 years after Viking landed on Mars, we’ve learned that planets are common,
including those similar in size to Earth and at the right distance from their
stars to allow oceans of liquid water. Also, Lovelock’s radical idea to pay
attention to the atmosphere and look for drastic departures from the expected
mixture of gases now forms the cornerstone of our life</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">detection strategies.
Gaian thinking has crept into our ideas about evolution and the habitability of
exoplanets, revising notions of the “habitable zone.” We’re realizing that it
is not enough to determine basic physical properties of a planet, its size and
distance from a star, in order to determine its habitability. Life itself, once
it gets started, can make or keep a planet habitable. Perhaps, in some
instances, life can also destroy the habitability of a planet, as it almost did
on Earth during the Great Oxygenation Event (sometimes called the oxygen
catastrophe) of 2.1 billion years ago. As my colleague Colin Goldblatt, a sharp
young climate modeler from the University of Victoria, once said, “The defining
characteristic of Earth is planetary scale life. Earth teaches us that
habitability and inhabitance are inseparable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">In
my 2003 book <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Lonely Planets</span></i>, I described what I
call the “Living Worlds hypothesis,” which is Gaian thinking applied to
astrobiology. Perhaps life everywhere is intrinsically a planetary</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">scale phenomenon with a
cosmological life span—that is, a life expectancy measured in billions of
years, the timescale that defines the lives of planets, stars, and the
universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Organisms
and species do not have cosmological life spans. Gaia does, and this is perhaps
a general property of living worlds. Influenced greatly by Lovelock and
Margulis, I’ve argued that we are unlikely to find surface life on a planet
that has not severely and flagrantly altered its own atmosphere. According to
this idea, a planet cannot be “slightly alive” any more than a person can (at
least not for long), and an aged planet such as Mars, if it is not obviously,
conspicuously alive like Earth, is probably completely dead. If the
little whiffs of methane recently reported by the Curiosity rover turn out to
be the signs of pockets of Martian life on an otherwise generally dead world,
this would prove that my Living Worlds hypothesis is wrong, and that life can
take on very non-Gaia-like forms elsewhere. But a living world may require more
than temporary little pockets of water and energy as surely exist underground
on Mars. It may require continuous and vigorous internally driven geological
activity. I believe that only a planet that is “alive” in the geological sense
is likely to be “alive” in the biological sense. Without plate tectonics,
without deep, robust global biogeochemical cycles which life could feed off
and, eventually, entrain itself within, life may never have been able to
establish itself as a permanent feature of Mars, as it did on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">As
far as we can tell, around the time when life was starting on Earth, both Venus
and Mars shared the same characteristics that enabled life to get going here:
They were wet, they were rocky, they had thick atmospheres and vigorous
geologic activity. Comparative planetology seems to be telling us that the
conditions needed for the origin of life might be the norm for rocky worlds.
One real possibility is that Mars or Venus also had an origin of life, but that
life did not stick, couldn’t persist, on either of these worlds. It was not
able to take root and become embedded as a permanent planetary feature, as it
did on Earth. This may be a common outcome: planets that have an origin of
life, perhaps even several, but that never develop a robust and self</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">sustaining global
biosphere. What is really rare and unusual about Earth is that beneficial
conditions for life have persisted over billions of years. This may have been
more than luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">When
we stop thinking of planets as merely objects or places where living beings may
or may not be present, but rather as themselves living or nonliving entities,
it can color the way we think about the origin of life. Perhaps life is
something that happens not <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">on</span></i> a planet
but <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">to</span></i> a planet: It is something that a planet
becomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Think
of life as analogous to a fire. If you’ve ever tried to start a campfire, you
know it’s easy to ignite some sparks and a little flicker of flame, but then
it’s hard to keep these initial flames going. At first you have to tend to the
fire, blowing until you’re faint, to supply more oxygen, or it will just die
out. That’s always the tricky part: keeping it burning before it has really
caught on. Then it reaches a critical point, where the fire is really roaring.
It’s got a bed of hot coals and its heat is generating its own circulation
pattern, sucking in oxygen, fanning its own flames. At that point it becomes
self-sustaining, and you can go grab a beer and watch for shooting stars.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I
wonder if the first life on a planet isn’t like those first sparks and those
unsteady little flames. The earliest stages of life may be extremely
vulnerable, and there may be a point where, once life becomes a planetary
phenomenon, enmeshed in the global flows that support and fuel it, it feeds
back on itself and becomes more like a self</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">sustaining fire, one that not only draws in its own air supply,
but turns itself over and replenishes its own fuel. A mature biosphere seems to
create the conditions for life to continue and flourish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">A
“living worlds” perspective implies that after billions of years, life will
either be absent from a planet or, as on Earth, have thoroughly taken over and
become an integral part of all global processes. Signs of life will be
everywhere. Once life has taken hold of a planet, once it has become a
planetary</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">scale entity (a global
organism, if you will), it may be very hard to kill. Certainly life has seen
Earth through many huge changes, some quite traumatic. Life here is remarkably
robust and persistent. It seems to have a kind of immortality. Call it quasi</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">immortality, because
the planet won’t be around forever, and it may not be habitable for its entire
lifetime. Individuals are here for but an instant. Whole species come and go,
usually in timescales barely long enough to get the planet’s attention. Yet
life as a whole persists. This gives us a different way to think about
ourselves. The scientific revolution has revealed us, as individuals, to be
incredibly tiny and ephemeral, and our entire existence, not just as
individuals but even as a species, to be brief and insubstantial against the
larger temporal backdrop of cosmic evolution. If, however, we choose to
identify with the biosphere, then we, Gaia, have been here for quite some time,
for perhaps 3 billion years in a universe that seems to be about 13 billion
years old. We’ve been alive for a quarter of all time. That’s something.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
origin of life on Earth was not just the beginning of the evolution of species,
the fount of diversity that eventually begat algae blooms, aspen groves, barrier
reefs, walrus huddles, and gorilla troops. From a planetary evolution
perspective, this development was a major branching point that opened up a
gateway to a fundamentally different future. Then, when life went global, and
went deep, planet Earth headed irreversibly down the path not taken by its
siblings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Now,
very recently, out of this biologically altered Earth, another kind of change
has suddenly emerged and is rewriting the rules of planetary evolution. On the
nightside of Earth, the lights are switching on, indicating that something new
is happening and someone new is home. Has another gateway opened? Could the
planet be at a new branching point?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The
view from space sheds light on the multitude of rapid changes inscribed on our
planet by our industrial society. The orbital technology enabling this
observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition
now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has been
planetary</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">scale life, then what
about these planetary</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">‐</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">scale lights? Might this spreading, luminous net be part of a
new defining characteristic?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">David Grinspoon is a senior scientist at the Planetary
Science Institute. He serves on the science teams for several active and
proposed interplanetary spacecraft missions. In 2013 he was appointed as the
inaugural chair of astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress. His latest
book, </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Earth in Human Hands, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">was published in 2016. Also a
musician, he plays guitar for the House Band of the Universe. He tweets @DrFunkySpoon.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">From the book</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Human-Hands-Shaping-Planets/dp/1455589128" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Earth in Human Hands</span></a> <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">by David Grinspoon. Copyright © 2016 by David Grinspoon. Reprinted
by permission of Grand Central Publishing, New York, NY. All rights reserved.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">This article was originally
published on <a href="http://cosmos.nautil.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Nautilus Cosmos</span></a> in December 2016.</span></i></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
Buy the book: "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Cyd Ropp at lulu.com or all online retailers. cyd.ropp@gmail.com</div>cydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12289590700972732767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7475296651918472095.post-30123362033101161802021-01-19T08:36:00.002-08:002021-01-19T10:31:26.555-08:00A Simple Explanation of Monads and Panpsychism<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">When I first conceived of the <a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2011/01/simple-fractal-model-of-conscious.html" target="_blank">Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything</a> back in 2008, I was unfamiliar with Leibniz's theory of monads. Didn't know about panpsychism either. The Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything was entirely cooked up in my own little brain while dipping in and out of the transpersonal consciousness we all share. Had I been a philosophy major, I would have known the names for the various components of the Simple Explanation. But I wasn't a philosophy major; I am instead a psychologist with a Ph.D. in Classical Rhetoric. My field of deep study is ancient texts and beliefs, and these are what influenced the development of my theory, not modern philosophers. So, rather than kludge together other's ideas, I built the Simple Explanation from the ground up using logic and observation. Another way of saying this is that my theory is not derivative in the normal way that most academics produce work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">By now I realize that the Simple Explanation is "monadistic" and "panpsychic." So what does that mean? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Simply put, a monad is a singular point of view. And pansychic simply means that consciousness permeates everything in the universe. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rather than rehash the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">philosophy of Leibniz</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, which you can read elsewhere, let me jump right in and describe the monadology and panpsychism of the Simple Explanation. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Simple Explanation proposes that undifferentiated consciousness is the ground state of reality; I call this state the Metaverse. Undifferentiated consciousness means "no-thought." The Metaverse</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is outside of time and space and particularity of any kind--omniscient and omnipresent. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then the Metaverse had a thought. It needed to envelop that thought in a bubble in order to keep it from sullying the waters of undifferentiated consciousness. This thought bubble took on the form of a torus and brought with it all of the knowledge of the Metaverse. I call this first thought bubble the Universal Unit of Consciousness. This Universal UC is localized into a single point of view floating in the nothingness of the Metaverse. The Universal UC is the first monad, afloat in the panpsychic sea.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Universal UC reproduces itself into innumerable, fractal copies of itself. I call these Units of Consciousness, or UCs. All of these UCs are monads. The physics of the Simple Explanation proposes that the Universal UC spits copies of itself out of the zero point field at its center.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMzrfFu_DGuzKKsmKOocMJ5QIwTprDkbCtBddJSVBcuJU4wUJeuRe1S6TurU5NTmFP3zCOD27ehuRYt1FE7Us8McyLEGgRG_m9Pbefd1ZVs2gaXqM02-uDyfzm0hr0i80Luz40AZvM1kk/s960/Slide5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMzrfFu_DGuzKKsmKOocMJ5QIwTprDkbCtBddJSVBcuJU4wUJeuRe1S6TurU5NTmFP3zCOD27ehuRYt1FE7Us8McyLEGgRG_m9Pbefd1ZVs2gaXqM02-uDyfzm0hr0i80Luz40AZvM1kk/w400-h300/Slide5.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our universe is comprised of fractal units of consciousness of the Universal Unit of Consciousness. These monads each come into our universe with all of the original consciousness of the Universal UC, however the knowledge contained is only accessible to the extent that it is needed by that particular monad. A quantum bit, for example, knows how to be a quantum bit and it behaves accordingly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Units of Consciousness are additive in nature, and they clump themselves into ever larger and more complex aggregations of matter and consciousness, using what the Simple Explanation calls the Golden Rule. All UCs and the matter that arises from them reach out to others like themselves in order to "hold hands" and level up to the next level of complexity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU5EmvrOjnRiBjN9mWZ6NQ22TI5HjcIh_337SqHZ7B8Y8vD6UYJnlngYVsdnm8gHPHIEtoOOSL7stoedHSUEOkcmxnoat50ICCZkdvTky9pPpCaryVTsB_GlLeNY0oAa0kkhvNGiahJyV/s900/basic_hierarchy%252C+force+knots%252C+sophia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU5EmvrOjnRiBjN9mWZ6NQ22TI5HjcIh_337SqHZ7B8Y8vD6UYJnlngYVsdnm8gHPHIEtoOOSL7stoedHSUEOkcmxnoat50ICCZkdvTky9pPpCaryVTsB_GlLeNY0oAa0kkhvNGiahJyV/w400-h266/basic_hierarchy%252C+force+knots%252C+sophia.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Time passes and creation becomes more complex as subatomic particles reach out to one another according to the principles of organization conceived by the Metaverse and set into motion by the Universal UC. Particles reach out to other particles and join to make atoms; atoms reach out to other atoms and level up to create molecules; molecules make elements and minerals; life begins as molecules form themselves to make the precursors of cells and organisms; cells level up to become organs, which level up to make organisms.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At each level of aggregation, another UC is formed to decipher the information that instructs the new creation how to do its job. Each of these fractal UCs come into the universe at a particular place and time. Which is another way of saying that each of these fractal UCs is identical other than possessing a unique point of view. My point of view is different than your point of view--we are in different places, we see the world through our own eyes and interpret it through our own experiences. This is true whether the UC is a human or a molecule. Every UC has its own unique point of view and sphere of operation. These points of view are the hallmark of monads.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Panpsychism refers to the consciousness that permeates our universe. The Simple Explanation says that Units of Consciousness are the basic building blocks of our material universe. "Material" is illusory, by the way, because consciousness is all that exists. When consciousness squeezes down to enter our universe through the toroidal portals, it slows down and materializes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's it. That's the basic definitions. Now let me add an interesting and unique observation to the discussion, which is the actual reason I wrote this article. Here it is:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At each level of instantiation, the point of view of monads become more and more unique. Sub-atomic particles of the same kind share the most commonality with each other. One up-spinning quark is much the same as the next up-spin quark--they plug into the fabric of the universe in exactly the same way and perform exactly the same functions. Because of this, the consciousness of that type of monad actually shares the same point of view. You could say that when the quark observes its surroundings, what it "sees" is pretty much exactly what any other like quark sees. But the more that monads level up to the next higher aggregation, the less they have in common. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For example, a hydrogen atom can level up to be a part of many different types of molecules. At the hydrogen's atomic level, they share very similar POVs. But once they level up to become part of a molecule, the molecule's points of view become unique to that type of molecule. The molecule has less in common with other molecules than did the atoms, one level down, because their position and function are more variable. But, existence inside of a water molecule, say, is pretty much the same for any hydrogen or oxygen molecule monad. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These shared points of view at the smallest level of instantiation go a long way to explaining quantum entanglement. The quanta are not separate to the extent that they share POVs, therefore action on any quanta is perceived by all quanta at that same level. </span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Because of this principle, the higher up a UC goes in the aggregation of material that makes up the universe, the less they have in common with others of their kind. As you rise higher in the hierarchy of forms, you have less and less in common with other monads at the same level. The more differentiated your form, the more you experience the illusion of separation. We organisms experience the illusion of separation most acutely because our aggregation is the most complex and made up of the most differently-functioning monads. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Humans can toggle in and out of the illusion of separation by realizing that there is only one originating monad and we are all a part of it. <a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/2011/05/simple-explanation-of-stay-centered.html" target="_blank">This is the realization of Oneness that comes through "centering" on the Universal UC's formula of consciousness.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjim2DGNF5iyhHVVhSXrAyJpQE0cLftTceRAZO9B2YIuTM9evo3R6jegNSMLBSewELdBdxPAGCtQisD4qCsZIY0vt4S2SpJbyRtwo9elWWYs3k6GKeyMYyhoce7kZIg1wbkn_Rr-3MFX1Lj/s1997/chakra4_ananda300dpi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="1997" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjim2DGNF5iyhHVVhSXrAyJpQE0cLftTceRAZO9B2YIuTM9evo3R6jegNSMLBSewELdBdxPAGCtQisD4qCsZIY0vt4S2SpJbyRtwo9elWWYs3k6GKeyMYyhoce7kZIg1wbkn_Rr-3MFX1Lj/s320/chakra4_ananda300dpi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please read the full original text and all related texts at https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com/
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