Molecular Altruism, cont.

By that I don't mean to draw any conclusions about God or where the greater meaning lies - at what level of "consciousness", we could say. Let's talk about this situation for a minute though. By our criteria for life, or life-energy, M-Cdk is dedicated to the safe replication and transmission of the DNA molecule into a functioning pair of daughter cells. Every single molecule, though, in the cell, has no "purpose" other than carrying out its conformational function. And the cell? The cell has no sentience: apoptosis, a suicide program the cell carries out based on physical signals, happens as a regular occurrence.

I had harped on earlier about how habituation to thematically-connected stimuli occurs in the cell, and how magnificent of an implication that is. But I don't mean to say that we can find sentience in the biological construct of the cell. If we could, would it commit suicide? And just as the molecules will terminate for the continuation of DNA, the cell will die when necessary to contribute to the organism. And the organism, from time to time, has been known to die to contribute to the society. Instead of trying to figure out which one is godly, which one is "sentient", maybe the god lies in the step-sacrifice forward; that god is a step, not one of its elements.

My reaction earlier today was that we might have to separate out biological functioning from something like "the will to power". That even though our parts have no sentience, they seek to accomplish something greater, as do we: that blind push forward. "The destination is in the journey," perhaps.

So if our application towards society is god - which I am not concluding it is, just furthering a line of thought - if that is god, and we are driven by the will to power, - what a flavorful tinge that adds to assembling society. "The best way." All we have left is our drive, and our elements - no labels, no certainty. And all we can hope to do is figure it out for ourselves - because even if I figure it out, that wonderfully terrific force of "nature" will step in for you and force you to come up with your own sense - even if ours are at conflict. That's the tremendous force of nature.