Planet Earth +?: q_sub-be & q_sub-eb – SYMBIOTIC and NON-; Allo-Hybrid-izations of Self-Hybrid eukaryotic single cell units with Self-Hybrid Multicellular 'meta-Biota' units. Part 7.: DialecticS of NATURE Main Sequence Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planet Earth +?: 

q_be &  q_eb  –

 

SYMBIOTIC

and NON-;

 

Allo-Hybrid-

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Self-Hybrid

eukaryotic

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Self-Hybrid

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'meta-biota' units.

 

 

Part 7.:

DialecticS

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NATURE

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Dear Reader,

 

 

The overall Encyclopedia Dialectica ‘dialectic of Nature’ ontological-categorial progression ‘meta-model’ includes the dialectical partial synthesis category, ‘synphysis’ category, or ‘uniphysis’ category, symbolized by q_be, in its 8^th model-epoch.  

 

That epoch ‘‘‘contains’’’ the ancient macro-cosmological hybridization processes of multi-eukaryotic-cellular biota-units-interacting-with-eukaryote-single-cell-units, still ongoing today, but only known to occur, so far, on planet Earth, to Earthlings.  

 

The epoch 8 model is excerpted, below, using the _NQ dialectical language’s ‘dyadic Seldon function’, with that function-form operating upon the ‘Regenerist’ Hypothesis “Dark Energy” ‘spandetron’ units’ «arché»-category, q_x, and is, partially [‘¶’], solved 

[‘|-º’; asserted, ‘|-’, as defined: ‘º’] by us as follows –

 

q_x²⁸  =  q_x²⁵⁶   ¶|-º  

 

q_x <+> q_c <+> q_cx <+> q_r <+>     

 

q_rx <+> q_rc <+> q_rcx <+> q_a <+>

 

q_ax <+> q_ac <+> q_acx <+> q_ar <+>     

 

q_arx <+> q_arc <+> q_arcx <+> q_m <+>

 

q_mx <+> q_mc <+> q_mcx <+> q_mr <+>     

 

q_mrx <+> q_mrc <+> q_mrcx <+> q_ma <+>

 

q_max <+> q_mac <+> q_macx <+> q_mar <+>     

 

q_marx <+> q_marc <+> q_marcx <+> q_p <+>

 

. . . <+> q_be

 

– with ontological category q_be, corresponding to generic ordinal qualifier category q₁₉₂.  

 

Category q_be is partially solved-for [‘¶|-º’], by us as representing, primarily, the [cosmo-]ontological category of “ecto-symbiotic” natural formations combining just eukaryotic single cell units, q_e, with asocial multicellular biota units, q_b. 

 

 

 

‘Multicellular Biota & Eukaryotic Single Cells’.  Within the above-written overall ontological, dialectical [i.e., ‘multi-«aufheben»-ating’, ‘multi-meta-unit-izing’] categorial progression, is the sub-progression that forms the focus of this blog-entry, namely –

 

 

q_b <x>  q_e    =   q_e <+> q_be.

 

 

This component-subprocess, categorizes and ‘character-izes’ [i.e., ‘algebra-izes’] – “stands for” – asocial multicellular biota units/eukaryotic single cell units interaction-units or natural-formation units.

 

Note: Our research on this hybrid ontological category has been assisted by AI research assistants.

 

 

Some Known Planet-Earth Instantiations of the ‘Dialectical-Categorial Partial-Synthesis’ Units of [cosmo?-]ontological category q_be.

 

This ‘merely-hybrid’ ontological category is exemplary of dialectical synthesis categories in general in the dialectics of nature. 

 

For its cosmo-ontological model epoch, model epoch 8, with a total of 2⁸ or 256 ontological categories possibly extant, per this ‘meta-model’, category --

 

q_be [---> q₁₉₂ 

-- is a partial ‘dialectical synthesis category’, or ‘uni-category’, because it does not combine the subscripts of all of the ‘self-hybrid categories’ that are extant in model-epoch 8.  The epoch 8 ‘full synthesis’ merely-hybrid category/full ‘uni-category’ is -- 

q_bepmarcx [---> q₂₅₅.

 

 

 

“Self-Interactions of cellular q_e units: q_ee |-º q_b.

Units inhering in the ontological category of qe ‘self-combinations’ began on planet Earth in deep time, and, in the _NQ dialectics-of-nature short-hand, look like this, as a component calculation within the q_x²⁸ calculation overall:

q_e <x>  q_e    =   

q_e <+> q_ee    |-º   q_e <+>   q_b.

 

 

This ‘self-hybridization’ of eukaryotic single cell units led to lasting symbiotic relationships, many of which persist into planet Earth present.

 

 

The meaning of category-symbol q_be encompasses three major sub-categories of b with e interactions: what we call (1.) ‘exo-symbiotic interactions, or “ecto-symbiotic” interactions; (2.) what we call ‘endo-symbiotic’ interactions, and (3.) what we call predatory interactions, each addressed separately.  

 

 

 

1. ‘Exo’-Symbiotic q_be Sub-Category Examples.

 

Highly complex, external mutualistic coalitions between multicellular ‘meta-biota’ units and external eukaryotic single cell units are rife on our planet today.

 

In these non-predatory, non-parasitic coalitions, the b and e units are mutually-external, but closely and vitally associated.  These stable coalitions represent both evolutionary bridges and highly specialized modern ecological teams.

 

There are many widespread, ecologically vital cases of symbiosis combining multicellular eukaryotic hosts and single-celled eukaryotic symbionts in mutual externality, but in close association nonetheless.

 

In these relationships, the single-celled eukaryote lives closely alongside the tissues of the multicellular animal, plant, or fungus.  Some of the most prominent, documented examples of such dual-species partnerships include:

 

i. Giant Clams and Photosynthetic Algae

• The Multicellular Host: Giant clams (mollusks in the genus Tridacna, such as Tridacna gigas).
• The Single-Celled Eukaryote: Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates (the same family found in corals).

How it works: Unlike the case with corals, the single-celled algae do not live inside the clam’s individual cells.  Instead, they live inside a specialized, highly branched tubular system in the clam's colorful, sun-exposed mantle tissue.  The clam uses structural “iridophore” cells to act like tiny lenses, focusing sunlight deep into its tissues so the single-celled eukaryotes can photosynthesize efficiently and feed the clam from within.

 

ii.  Lichens (Fungi/Green Algae natural formations)

• The Multicellular Host Units: Filamentous fungi (primarily Ascomycete or Basidiomycete fungi).
• The Single-Celled Eukaryote Units: Microscopic single-celled green algae (most commonly in the genus Trebouxia or Chlorella).

How it works: A lichen is not a single organism, but a composite framework.  The multicellular fungal threads (hyphae) weave a protective structure that shields the delicate, single-celled eukaryotic algae from drying out or being destroyed by intense ultraviolet light.  In exchange, the single-celled algae photosynthesize and supply the fungal matrix with food.

 

2. ‘Ecto’-Symbiotic q_be Sub-Category Examples. 

Highly complex, internal mutualistic coalitions between multicellular ‘meta-biota’ units and internalized eukaryotic single cell units are rife on our planet today.

 

Single-celled eukaryotic organisms form vital, mutually beneficial relationships with multicellular hosts, often driving the survival of entire ecosystems or enabling the digestion of complex nutrients.

 

a. Reef-Building Corals and Dinoflagellates 

This is the most ecologically significant animal-protist symbiosis on/in planet Earth.

 

• The Multicellular Host Units: Scleractinian corals (marine invertebrates in the phylum Cnidaria, such as Acropora or Porites species).

 

• The Single-Celled Eukaryote Units: Zooxanthellae (specifically dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae, such as Symbiodinium, Breviolum, or Cladocopium).

 

How it works: The single-celled dinoflagellates units live directly inside the gastro-dermal cell sub-units of the coral animal units. The algae units perform photosynthesis and share up to 90% of their organic nutrients (sugars and amino acids) with the coral units.  In return, the coral units provide the algae units with a protected environment, elevated access to sunlight, and “waste products” (carbon dioxide and ammonia) needed for photosynthesis.

 

b.  Termites and Wood-Digesting Protists

• The Multicellular Host: Lower termite units (invertebrates such as Reticulitermes flavipes). 

• The Single-Celled Eukaryote: Large, complex single-celled flagellated protist units (such as Trichonympha or Pyrsonympha). 

How it works: Termites feed almost exclusively on wood (cellulose), but they completely lack the enzymes required to digest it.  They rely on millions of single-celled protist units living packed inside their hindgut.  These single-celled eukaryotes swallow the microscopic wood particles via phagocytosis and ferment the cellulose into acetate, which the multicellular termite units absorb as their primary energy source.

Note: Because termites are “eusocial” insect-animals, the above example is actually a specimen of category 

q_le [---> q₃₂₀.   

 

c.  Green Hydra and Chlorella

• The Multicellular Host: The green hydra (Hydra viridissima, a small freshwater cnidarian). 

• The Single-Celled Eukaryote: Zoochlorellae (specifically single-celled green algae like Chlorella vulgaris). 

How it works: The single-celled algae units live inside the gastrodermal cell sub-units of the hydra.  Under normal sunlight, the algae units synthesize maltose (a sugar) to help feed the hydra units.  This symbiotic relationship is so highly evolved that even if the hydra units are starved of external prey, they can survive indefinitely on the sugars generated by their internal single-cell-unit partners.

 

d.  Marine Invertebrate Mutualists

• Philaster guamensis:
• Partners: Flatworm units with sea slug units.
• Description: This ciliated protist eukaryotic units form endosymbiotic relationships with multicellular marine invertebrate flatworm units, helping to recycle the flatworm units’ metabolic waste products into usable organic compounds for those multicellular host units while creating a stable, protected environment for the eukaryotic cell units, internalized into the flatworm ‘meta-biotic’ units.

    

The sample of specimens cited above show that the ‘‘‘dialectics-of-nature’’’, combinatoric ontological-category-symbol q_be has Earth-immanent instances that represent symbiotic combinations.

 

Dialectical Nature of the Opposition Between Multi-cellular ‘meta-biota’ units & eukaryotic single cell units.

The ‘‘‘dialectical-categorial antithesis’’’ between ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’ units and eukaryotic single-cell units – which is overcome for their ‘uni-category’ hybrid units, via a categorial dialectical synthesis – is one that we usually may not be able to directly, sensuously perceive, since at least the eukaryotic units are far too minute for our unaided eyes to see, or our fingers to feel. 

 

That opposition is produced via a ‘concrete negation operation’, yielding a ‘‘‘negativity’’’, a specific ‘not-ness’, that qualitatively, ontologically distinguishes the two. 

That [mutual-]negation operation is not any “abstract negation” operation, that obliterates its operands into a “nothingness” [cf. Hegel], e.g., into a, Boolean, 0. 

 

It begins in a “determinate negation” operation, starting with a self-«aufheben» self-operation, by which, e.g., multiple eukaryotic single-cell units coalesce themselves into single ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular’ organism units, or ‘meta-biota’ – “meta-zoa” and “meta-phyta” – thereby determinately-negating their ‘eukaryoticity’ determination, but also conserving that ‘eukaryote-ness’ inside their collective new ‘meta-bioticity’ quality, and uplifting themselves into the higher size/mass/complexity scale of meta-biotic multicellular units, leaving behind their former ‘eukaryote-ness’-only complexity scale and level. 

 

These eukaryotic single-cell units thus collectively continue themselves, in extension, by adding a new level/scale to, the multi-level ‘qualo-fractal’ scales-progression, that began, per our hypothesis, with/from the “Dark Energy” ‘spandetron’ units – of “empty” physical space itself; of ‘the ‘spandetron expanse’ – themselves.

 

Then, once units of both the e ontology and the b ontology are in existence together, a further “determinate negation” operation, this time an allo-«aufheben», mutual operation, can ensue, by which, e.g., multiple eukaryotic single-cell units coalesce with multiple ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular’ organism units, or ‘meta-biota’ units, to form ‘merely-hybrid’ new units, which dialectically synthesize the e qualities and/with the b qualities, to form natural formations which are neither simply of the b kind, nor simply of the e kind, yet partake in both qualities, but are, overall, of a new, q_be or q_eb kind.

Dialectical, Ontological Category-Symbols’ subscript Commutability and Meaning-Duality.

 

Note that category-symbol q_be [generically q₁₉₂ = q₁₂₈₊₆₄] has the same ‘‘‘order-number’’’ [the same ‘ordinal-quality generic subscript index’] as does category-symbol q_eb [q₉₆ =  q₁₂₈₊₆₄] – i.e., is the 192nd category-symbol in this ‘Dialectic of Nature’, ‘cosmo-ontological’ category-symbols progression. 

 

 

The latter, q_eb, can be solved as representing another syntactically possible ‘[cosmo-]ontological’ process within eukaryotic cell units’/multicellular ‘meta-bion’ units’ combinations/complex unities/uni-categories/dialectical partial syntheses. 

 

  

Specifically, subscripts-commutated category-symbol q_eb might well, for example, be interpreted as describing the conversions – ‘‘‘catalyzed’’’ by eukaryotic cell units – of multicellular ‘meta-bion’ units’ biomass back down into eukaryotic cell units’ biomass. 

 

 

3.  Cases for Symbol q_eb – Non-Symbiotic.

Not only does category-symbol q_eb have instantiations, as seen above – that are symbiotic examples,

 

q_eb <--->  q_be, 

as well as predatory examples, the latter, q_be units, as ‘conversion formations’ that convert e ‘onto-mass’ up into b ‘onto-mass’. 

 

 

Category-symbol q_eb also has instantiations on our planet, in the form of ‘conversion formations’ that convert b ‘onto-mass’ back down into e ‘onto-mass’; 

b ¯ e, for which q_eb ~  q_be, i.e., for which the differently-interpreted pair form an opposition, instead of the interpretation with the ‘symbiotic signature’, noted above: 

q_eb <--->  q_be.   

 

Several such cases of the latter kind of predation, q_eb, are described below.

 

Single-celled eukaryotic organisms—collectively categorized under protists, protozoa, and certain microscopic fungi—frequently engage in pathogenic, predatory, and parasitic interactions with multicellular ‘meta-bion’ units as hosts.

 

The most notable and well-studied cases of q_eb; single-celled eukaryote units preying upon multicellular ‘meta-bion’ units, include:

 

A.  Pathogenic & Parasitic Species (Mammalian Hosts).

Plasmodium falciparum (Malaria Parasite).

• Process: Parasitic/Pathogenic
• Target Host: Vertebrate hosts and Anopheles mosquitoes (vector).
• Description: This apicomplexan protist is responsible for the most severe form of malaria.  It infects human liver cells before invading, multiplying within, and ultimately destroying red blood cells.  This destruction causes severe cyclical fevers, anemia, and organ damage.

One of the most well-known single-celled eukaryotic pathogens is Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for causing malaria in multicellular hosts like humans, as well as social and asocial mammal species.  humans hosts to malarial infection actually inhere in the category symbolized by h, for ‘meta-social’ units, so that this interaction fits with category-symbol q_eh, not q_eb.

The cycle begins when a first infected mosquito bites a potential host organism, introducing forms called sporozoites into its bloodstream.  These sporozoites travel directly to the liver, where they enter liver cells and reproduce at a high rate, actualizing their potential higher Darwinian fitness within such a host. 

 

The infected liver cells rupture, releasing thousands of merozoites into the host’s body. These merozoites then infect red blood cells, embarking on an asexual cycle where they transform into ring forms, trophozoites, and schizonts.  Finally, some develop into gametocytes, which may be taken up via a second mosquito bite to reproduce the transmission cycle.  Understanding these complex life cycles is vital for developing effective medical treatments and global health strategies to combat devastating parasitic diseases.

 

B.  Toxoplasma gondii

• Process: Parasitic.
• Target Host: Felids (cats, the definitive host) and virtually all warm-blooded animals.
• Description: Famous for its ability to alter host behavior,

T. gondii forms tissue cysts in brain and muscles.  In its key, intermediate hosts like rodents, it chemically alters the brain to diminish their fear of cat urine, making them easier prey and ‘probabilizing’ the parasite’s return to its definitive feline host to complete its sexual reproductive cycle.

 

C.  Entamoeba histolytica

• Process: Parasitic/Predatory (Tissue-lysing).
• Target Host: primates [i.e., for social primates, fitting to category-symbol q_el ].
• Description: The causative agent of amebiasis (amoebic dysentery).  It lives in the large intestine and directly attacks the mucosal lining by secreting enzymes that dissolve host tissues.  It acts predatively at a cellular level, physically engulfing host red blood cells and cellular debris (a process known as trogocytosis).

 

D.  Giardia duodenalis (also known as Giardia lamblia)

• Process: Parasitic.

• Target Host: Dogs, beavers, and other mammals [for social mammals, fitting category-symbol q_el ].

• Description: A flagellated protozoan that colonizes and reproduces in the small intestine, causing giardiasis.  It uses a specialized ventral sucking disk to adhere tightly to the intestinal epithelium, blocking the host’s ability to absorb nutrients and causing severe diarrheal illness.

 

Pathogenic Species (Wildlife & Ecosystem Hosts)

E.  Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Chytrid Fungus).

• Process: Pathogenic/Parasitic.
• Target Host: Amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders).
• Description: A devastating, single-celled zoosporic fungus responsible for chytridiomycosis.  It attacks the keratinized layers of an amphibian’s skin, disrupting its ability to breathe and regulate water and electrolytes through its cutaneous membrane.  It has caused the catastrophic decline or extinction of hundreds of amphibian species worldwide.

 

Predatory & Toxigenic Species (Aquatic Ecosystems).

F.  Pfiesteria piscicida

• Process: Predatory/Pathogenic.
• Target Host: Estuarine fish (such as Atlantic menhaden).
• Description: Often referred to as an “ambusher” dino-flagellate, this single-celled organism is capable of releasing potent neurotoxins into the water when fish schools are nearby. The toxins stun the fish and cause skin lesions, allowing the dinoflagellate to feed on the sloughed tissue, blood, and cellular fluids of the living or dying host.

 

4.  Cases for Symbol q_be – Non-Symbiotic.

In contrary cases, represented by category-symbol q_be, we have predatory conversions of eukaryotic single cell units’ ‘onto-mass’ into multicellular ‘meta-bion’ units’ ‘onto-mass’, including those described below.

When these roles are reversed, multicellular organisms units—ranging from microscopic invertebrates to massive aquatic filter feeders—rely heavily on single-celled eukaryote units (protists, amoebae, and ciliates) as a primary food source. 

 

Some of the most familiar multicellular species units that act as predators upon single-celled eukaryote units are –

 

Microscopic Invertebrates (Active and Grazing Predators).

I.  Rotifers (Rotifera species, e.g., Brachionus plicatilis).

• Mechanism: Filter feeding/Vortex predation.
• Target Prey: Single-celled green algae units, ciliate units, and flagellate units.
• Description: Often called “wheel animalcules”, these microscopic, multicellular animals possess a specialized, ciliated structure called a corona on their heads. The beating cilia create a powerful water vortex that draws single-celled eukaryote units directly into their muscular pharynx (mastax) to be ground up for digestion.

 

II.  Nematodes (e.g., Pristionchus pacificus)

• Mechanism: Grazing and piercing predation.
• Target Prey: Soil flagellate units, amoebae units, and microscopic fungi units.
• Description: While many nematode units eat bacteria units or plant units’ roots, predatory soil nematode units target single-celled eukaryotes units.  They actively navigate the micro-spaces in soil and use specialized tooth-like structures or sharp stylets in their mouths to puncture the cell walls or membranes of protist units, sucking out the cellular contents.

 

III.  Gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha species).

• Mechanism: Suction feeding.
• Target Prey: Diatom units, ciliate units, and small flagellate units.
• Description: These tiny, worm-like aquatic invertebrates live in the sediments of marine and freshwater environments.  They glide over surfaces using ventral cilia and use a muscular pharynx to act like a miniature vacuum cleaner, sucking up eukaryotes units such as single-celled diatom units and protozoans whole.

 

Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates (Bulk and Filter Feeders).

IV.  Water Fleas (Daphnia pulex)

• Mechanism: Suspension filter feeding.
• Target Prey: Phytoplankton (unicellular eukaryotic algae units like Chlamydomonas) and micro-zooplankton units.
• Description: As a keystone species in freshwater food webs, Daphnia use their specialized, comb-like thoracic appendages to constantly filter the water column.  They are incredibly efficient predators, capable of clearing massive populations of single-celled photosynthetic eukaryote units, thereby regulating algal blooms in lakes and ponds.

 

V.  Bivalve Mollusks (e.g., Mytilus edulis / Blue Mussel).

• Mechanism: Ciliated gill filtration.
• Target Prey: Dinoflagellate units, diatom units, and other unicellular planktonic eukaryote units.
• Description: Stationary multicellular predator units like mussels, oysters, and clams pump large volumes of water through their mantles.  Their gills are covered in mucus and cilia that trap single-celled eukaryote units out of the water currents.  The captured cell units are then transported in a continuous “conveyor belt” of mucus directly to the mouth.

 

 

Thus, above, we have seen that both the – 

q_be &   q_eb 

– interpretations of the [cosmo?-]ontological category-symbol that is the ordinal 192^nd category-symbol in the category-symbols non-amalgamative progression modeling ‘‘‘The Dialectics of Nature’’’ – modeling the known history of Nature; modeling the known ontology, or kinds of being, that exist in Nature up to the present, and in the chronological order in which they have arisen – has instantiations for both 

symbiotic and non-symbiotic units of q_be, and for both 

symbiotic and non-symbiotic units of q_eb; indeed, has many 

species-instantiations for each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Miguel Detonacciones,

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Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

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