‘The «Gene»-sis
of the PLANIMALS’ -- A Dialectical-Scientific Prediction-Hypothesis.
Dear Readers,
The purpose of this
blog-entry is to illustrate, for you, the potential benefits of dialectical-heuristic rules of inference in discovering new scientific hypotheses that involve predictions about the future ontological categorial content of a given Domain.
In the case
at hand here,
that Domain is our cosmos as the whole
-- ‘‘‘Nature’’’
as Natural History: the maximal Totality.
As we see it, based upon wide
experience in discerning the vast plethora of individual dialectical processes
that constitute our
cosmos, the two principal principles
of dialectical-heuristic, inductive and probabilistic inference are the
following --
1. ‘The Rule of ‘Contra-Category’ Expectation/Prediction’. When one discerns that a new first, or «arché» category
has irrupted into existence -- thus as
the first category of a new
ontological Domain -- then one should expect, and even venture
to publicly predict, with substantial probability based upon
empirical, inductive frequency-evidence from many other similar cases, that a
new, second category of this new Domain will, ‘self-combinatorially’ irrupt, at some
time in the future,
as a ‘meta-genealogical self-otherization’ of the first category, and, perhaps, as an «aufheben» ‘self-meta-unit-ization’
of the some of the units
of that first category.
2. ‘The Rule of ‘Uni-Category’ Expectation/Prediction’. When one discerns that an apparent polarity and radical, “unbridgeable” duality has formed, between the new first, or «arché»-category,
of a new ontological Domain, and its ‘meta-genealogical
self-otherization’ as an even newer, second category of this new Domain,
then one
should expect,
and even venture to publicly predict,
with substantial probability
based upon empirical,
inductive frequency-evidence from many other similar cases, that a third category
of this new Domain will, ‘mutually-combinatorially’ irrupt, at
some time in the future,
as a ‘meta-genealogical mutual-transcendence’ of that duality, and, perhaps, as a mutual-«aufheben» ‘hybrid-unit-ization’ of some of the units of that first category, with some of the
units
of that second
category.
In the case
at hand here,
it is dialectical-heuristic
rule of inference 2. that, we hold, applies.
The case
at hand here is
as follows --
A widely-noted, and even-more-widely-noticed, ubiquitous polarity, and a seemingly
“unbridgeable”
duality, throughout this
humanity’s experience of the Terran biosphere, is that of the qualitative
opposition of the units of the ontological category of ‘‘‘PLANTS’’’ vis-a-vis those
of the ontological category of ‘‘‘ANIMALS’’’.
That widespread conviction of ‘unbridgeability’
notwithstanding; despite that “absolute certainty” that a dialectical synthesis of plant and animal is forever impossible, we
venture the dialectical hypothesis that, in the future, an ontological «species»-category of ‘PLANT/ANIMAL
hybrids’
will actualize,
as a «species»-category
with many sub-«species»
sub-categories.
We use the neologism ‘PLANIMALS’ to name this predicted
future ‘cosmo-ontological category’.
It might be assumed that we
are referring to a future fruition of further developments in existing
biological forms, such as that of the “Venus Fly-Trap”.
However, we
think it much more likely that the future sub-«species» of the predicted ‘PLANIMALS’ «species» will be constituted mostly by the human ‘GMO-praxis’ -- the
advanced technological praxis of creating “Genetically Modified Organisms”.
In particular, we
think that the systematically and historically last sub-«species» of this predicted «species» will be one of genomically-modified -- of
‘‘‘genomically re-engineered’’’ -- [former] humans.
The specific genomic modification that we
infer, would be one leveraging the similarities of the chlorophyll and hemoglobin molecules,
and, potentially, of the genetic apparatus for building and deploying those
molecules, plus the genetics of the sub-cutaneous lymphatic flow exhibited by
human bodies, to install an abundance of photosynthesizing chloroplast organelles into
that lymphatic flow. This would enable a
partial supply of food, of life-extending phyto-chemicals and micro-nutrients,
and of Oxygen, together with a partial pre-cleansing of Carbon Dioxide
build-ups from exhalations, to be accomplished, simply by exposing the skins of
those so-modified to sun light -- or even to [other] star-light, given
sufficient proximity/light-energy-density.
These modifications, we expect, will confer
markedly extended life-spans on those so-modified, as well as affording them crucial
advantages for prolonged and repeated inter-planetary and even inter-stellar
space-faring.
The extended life-spans offered by these modifications will
make them irresistible to many humans -- will make the demand for these
modifications ‘hyper-inelastic’. Once
feasible, these modification would therefore be likely to “spread like wildfire”
through the human population.
A more detailed aspect of our ‘PLANIMALS’ hypothesis can be stated as follows --
The last, humans-sourced
sub1-«species»
of the «species» that we
call ‘PLANIMALS’ will coincide with the first sub1-«species»
of the first «species» of the predicted «Genos» that we call ‘meta-humanitys’, namely,
that sub1-«species»
that we characterize as being constituted by ‘self-re-engineering of the human
genome’,
mediated by and through the advanced
‘human phenome’.
The ‘dialectogram’ above
provides a partially pictorial,
partially pictographic summary of this hypothesis.
For more information regarding,
and for [further] instantiations of, these Seldonian insights, please see --
and
For ‘poster-izations’ of many of these insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
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