The Origin of Biological Life

Reflection: #024

The origin of biological life must be part of the planet's elements. Our cells are largely composed of carbon and its multiple molecular compounds with hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, and other molecules. The bony skeleton of a body is so hard yet light due to its porous structure. It serves to support and protect the organs of multicellular organisms.  The first elemental compounds formed organic molecules. Cells emerged, and with them began the evolution of biological life.

Elements flowed into the cells from the outside, which were more gaseous than liquid. These were the preliminary stages of blood formation. This fluid inflated these small cells or clusters of cells, which in turn floated in the ocean waters. Through electrical and chemical necessity, they united and aligned like molecules of different elements.  Atoms of accumulated gases moved among them, and thus the first interaction of living beings occurred. All of this described took place in the depths of the oceans, always near the hot gases of underwater volcanoes. Possibly, under these conditions—as in the beginning—life constantly begins anew and awaits its development.  

The secret of biological life lies mainly in the control of smaller, immeasurable forces. Electrical forces, gravitational forces—not to speak of anything supernatural, but of chaos theory and symmetry. For some reason, the symmetry of the universe became unstable. From that moment, the universe worked with all its power to regain that original symmetry—or at least to find a balance among the forces that were released at the beginning of our known, unstable universe.  

In an effort to achieve new stability, an tireless process of trial and correction developed among the most diverse constellations of elements and forces. One of these created universes achieved exactly the kind of lasting stability we know now.

But this stability must not be confused with singularity—that is, with the original state of Silent Nothingness, which cannot be comprehended by our understanding. 

The singularity became an explosive, lightning-fast, changing chaos. From this chaos emerged the state we consider order, which produced us as thinking beings. It appears to us as a constant singularity because we can only observe brief moments.  

But this is not so. Realities are different from what our senses tell us. One thing is certain: we do not move in a straight line. Only the curvature of space would return us to the starting point after a long journey. If the world, the universe, also finds its way back to its original singularity through the curvature of something higher, we will probably never know. 

The development of life that recognizes itself, that has developed consciousness, that has soul and individuality, is incomprehensible.  

Josef Bauer