The Barcode Model of Evolution
Oh My God!
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Origin of 3s Hunters as of 10/17/2024
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For others who rely on a culturally ingrained religious or philosophical orientation, the idea of a God (as a Trinity) or the idea of a path (also as a three-part expression) is viewed by them as the one true orientation where all questions can be answered.
Yet, if you don't buy into the God hypothesis such as chronicled by Richard Dawkins in his The God Delusion, then perhaps because of some lingering uncertainty you prefer to reconsider it by being offered the idea of "3 Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe" in Steven C. Meyer's book Return of the God hypothesis.
Alternatively, when looking for fundamentals and if one prefers to not resort to providing a reference from particle physics, one might otherwise enlist the comment of the planet Earth's 3rd position from a source of solar energy and its general composition of Core- Mantle- Crust. On the biological side of this tossed-about coin we might describe the triplet code of RNA/DNA. And while we could continue in this stepping-stones-of-three scenario in an evolutionary trek sequencing, there are multiple perspectives that can be taken into account while we gather supporting evidence. However, please note that those who subscribe to some religious belief or even "God Particle" are inclined to revert to using god or belief or faith as a definitive sanctuary to retreat to, which keeps them from further investigation— except to qualify their presumptions with a handful of supposed evidentiary proposals.
The observation that the value "3" (numerical or otherwise) repeats quite often has been made by different people in their individual lifetimes, using the label(s) with their culture and time period... unless we are speaking of a rebellious thinker engaged in word coinage. Put simply, many people have seen multiple patterns-of-three, typically referred to as a triad, a trinity, a three-some, a triple, a triunity, three-score or simply three, though others may prefer some other means of referencing. However, this in no way diminishes those who see other-than-three patterns or those who see patterns in non-numerical formulas— or through some sensory means other than their eyes. People hear patterns, feel patterns, taste patterns, smell patterns and otherwise sense patterns whose origination and construction may be inexplicable and thus difficult to describe in some familiar comprehensibility. However, whichever subject they are inclined to use to interpret such impressions; that most likely is the avenue of expression they will seek to represent sensory data, such as religion, folklore, mathematics, etc..., though their assertions and belief in their conviction does not mean they are correct. If the data comes by way of nuances, shadows, or various modes of intervals, such occasions may be viewed in terms of some superstition, mystery, extra-sensory model, or fringe ideology such as Numerology, Astrology, Witchcraft, and other such alternatives set at the sides of mainstream explanations.
A central question about "threes" observations (which can be applied to any pattern), is to determine whether there is an increase in frequency and composition of threes ideas due to:
- An underlying change in human cognition.
- Due to an increased population enabled to voice its individual (and collective) opinion.
- Both/neither.
The repetition of "threes" can be viewed as a triplet code occurring alongside other numerical models, as well as geometric and other characterizations one might use to describe a perception by way of a given sensory channel (hearing, tasting, smelling, touch, psychic,... etc.). However, with respect to numerical models, only a handful are being used compared to the infinity of numbers at our disposal to choose from. Other patterns may well share this same "conservation of quantity".
As a relevant aside note, the planet Earth is a "3rd position" example but has not been linked with any named 2nd or 1st position object as the precursors to its standing. Indeed, the formation of the Earth is told in a way that very much resembles a Fairy tale, because no one actually knows how it came to be. While many have speculated, using the knowledge and instrumentation at their disposal, it is mere guesswork, despite any consensus from like-minded colleagues they may have. However, if we look at the Earth and describe its typically generalized structure of having three parts named the Core, Mantle, Crust, we might think of a 3-part developmental trek occurring as a snowball gathering layers as it rolls along a ground covered in snow. Yet, this would me that the Earth either rotated only three times to get its three layers, or it was confronted by a situation in which there was no more snow on the ground to get another layer. Whatever the case one might imaginatively describe, I can not help but to further speculate that the Earth is the 3rd generation of a process we of today do not yet understand. Yet, the fact that it is the 3rd planet upon which life as we know it has arisen, creates a level of curiosity which must be followed upon discovering there are multiple three patterns in biology, and different ideologies outside of biology as well, including non-"three" and non-numerical patterns intermixed.
A non-intelligent person will always reach for a religious explanation such as the concept of a "god". A more intelligent person will seek an alternative explanation which they may claim is the chosen path or tool or instrument of a god, such as the ancient formative notions attached with Mathematics (as numerology), Astrology (as star gazing), and Astronomy (as dot-to-dot geometry). A further later intellectual approach may either be a total dismissiveness to the idea of a god and seek answers in an established serious academic subject with fringe interpretations. Eventually you might find someone who values all opinions but categorizes them all as being alternatives that may or may not have one or more grains of truth. The type of god humanity describes need not use one subject to provide an interpretive explanation to a species that is not that far removed from a jungle environment of the past. Like a book with 3 pages of code, we need to look for repeating patterns in order to attempt a decipherment. One of these patterns come in various costumes with different labels, but is widely recognized as a "3".
I can't begin with the phrase "In The Beginning" because this is too premature at the present stage of investigation. Nor can I use "Once upon a time" because I don't yet know if it was only once. And yet we are met with the historically fashioned dilemma posed in a dichotomous model metaphorically described as the chicken and ego controversy. Indeed, what came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first, a pattern or a number? No less, since we are dealing with examples framed by language, we need to ask what no linguist has yet done, and that is what came first... Infant Babbling or Language? Or were unintelligible utterances of an infant or the groans and yells of a woman giving birth the precursors to language? Are such behaviors language? While we might not understand what is being expressed, such utterances as a toothache produces are quite communicative. And the responses of trying to alleviate the pain are a type of communication... a tit for tat sort of scenario involving a mother and child. An Ow! receives and Ugh in return as an illustration of language primivity.
Countless people have expressed the opinion of Nature speaking to us, if only we knew how to appropriately listen and respond. Patterns are exhibited by Nature but only a few come to appreciate them enough to develop a system of intelligibility to be communicated with others through a conventionalized language because they think of language in only one way and need others to interpret such things as weather patterns. Medicine is replete with a literature addressing the signs and symptoms of both health and injury or disease. A medical practice in part, is to acquire a grasp of this essentially non-verbal language and interpret its different dialects. And at one time, the idea of "signs" became so important that select people took up the position of divination for an entire clan. Even today there are those who take upon themselves or are chosen to interpret the supposed word of god as declared by past views described as revelation. Similarly, we have stock markets with analysts, and various analysts in positions both inside and outside governments. While some call them different types of speculators, others revere their positions and opinions.
Much like those seeking the origin of the triplet code in RNA and DNA I am speaking of the plausibility for finding the origin(s) for the multitude of three-patterned ideas occurring over centuries in a variety of forms and formulas. Since I believe the search for the two topics (biology and cognitive psychology) are similar, permit me to indulge in a bit of speculation about the sequence of development occurring in the biological sphere, since it is created by the sphere of one's psychology. Not only is it a remarkable frequency by which patterns-of-three can be found in human anatomy as Dr. McNulty as described in his list of threes in human anatomy, but also in the sequencing of developmental biology which I am pursuing:
The three main concepts on the origin and evolution of the triplet code as seen by the present currency of science are:
These theories are not mutually exclusive and are also compatible with the frozen accident hypothesis, i.e., the notion that the standard code might have no special properties but was fixed simply because all extant life forms share a common ancestor, with subsequent changes to the code, mostly, precluded by the deleterious effect of codon reassignment. (source: Origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma by Eugene V. Koonin and Artem S. Novozhilov |
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In none of the above scenarios is discussed the possibility that the triplet code pattern is an effect of mimicking (as in the idea of a mirror-image) a natural event, whether you think of "mimicking" in terms of a parroting or myna bird effect, or as a biologically transferable tatoo/ branding iron impression. This 3-patterned event to which I speak of is the proposed idea of a irradiative "searing" effect of the Sun's three phases ("moments") called dawn-noon-dusk, which would have been perceived by light-affected (photo-sensitive) biological materials as a 3-patterned strobe-light when the Earth was rotating much faster in the past. If we view the event metaphorically, an image showing 3 branding irons near a fire can be used to describe events having taken place billions of years ago (and continuing today) like a routine ranch practice that lasts for generations. Because the hides of different animals are different, the effect of the Sun's three phases ("moments") would differ as biological chemistry changed along different routes into different environments.
In childhood I would tap every 3rd stave in a picket fence. I would also hopscotch to every other (3rd) stone on a walkway or 3rd tile in a store. On numerous occasions I would hear an adult count "one- two-three". When foot racing, someone might say the 3-part phrase "Ready! - Set!- Go!" Such "threes" events stuck in my mind and continued to play out in different models in different subjects the more I digressed from the typical currency of subjects in school and the way they were being taught... which was very superficial. I wasn't interested in math that anyone in grade school could grasp, I wanted to know the depths and digressions of math in history. I wasn't interested in sing-along music sessions, but music theory. I wasn't interested in how geography was laid out by an association with historical figures, but how the origin of geographical locations came about. I wasn't interested in the history of events being regurgitated about a Nation's preoccupation with itself and Heritage, but the origin of historical thinking... and so on and so forth... Yep, needless to say, I was a strange cookie. It's no wonder I got kicked out of kindergarten when I insisted on bringing three show-and-tell items instead of one or two, or sat in a corner with a stack of encyclopedias instead of playing pin the tail on the donkey with the other kids, whom I thought were silly little creatures who should have had the tail pinned on them cause they laughed like donkeys. HA!
Yet my momentary trip down memory lane where multiple patterns-of-three are encountered suggest they were like the bread crumbs from the Hanzel and Gretel I had gathered up and found myself lost in a forest of conflicting ideas with no direct path out of the maze of trees. Like a bird I snatched up the bread crumbs of threes and devoured them as any child might eat berries being encountered on a bush in a meadow. Yet, the bread crumbs keep re-appearing and form a walkway for our minds to walk along in a sequential fashion. Though each one is a 3, they represent different types of seeds that may take root and whose growth patterns may digress, diverge, and develop into successive expressions of the "3", though some may die out and others more distant in the past are difficult to find any remnant thereof.
It should be noted that while the idea of bread crumbs may suit the mindset of some readers, they would prefer the idea of 3 stepping stones. As such, I would remind them that such an idea can be taken too literally, particularly when dealing with biology, where compounded multiplicity takes place and may be used by some detractors of this type of metaphor. And yet, we can see that the design of some 3-stone pathways is the result of multiplicity. Indeed, what we may at first think to describe as a discordant theme in the idea of a "three" due to multiplicity, can again become a three if in our observations we see tha the multiplicity has created three paths, roads or avenues. And much like the old saying that All roads lead to Rome, let us suggest that all Causeways of human cognition lead to a "3-way" crossroads of origination. ("3-way/Freeway", the rhyme is correlatively instructive.)
Cultural preferences of number orientation have been well noted by Anthropologists for decades. But as far as I'm aware, there have been no longitudinal studies as to which and what if any changes in cultural (number orientated) dispositions have taken place. Whereas Anthropologists speak of traditions, we do not know if such traditions are increasing, diminishing or remaining unchanged (with variable fluctuations taken into account). Typically, a small sampling of a given culture's usage of a given number or other pattern is recorded for a set of typically looked at subject areas (such as burial practices, rites of passage, music, overall intellectual developments and achievements, kinship groups, etc...), which often describe the habits of older generations, but the younger members cognitive orientations may be excluded. An example from the U.S. American sphere can be used to describe the situation:
If we limit the scope of our research to the traditions of older populations and their usage of pattern orientations, the typical assortment of Greek and Roman myths, triads in religion and uses in literature, etc., will be indulged in, thereby we overlook the volume of threes patterns being used to cater to a younger generation such as those found in cartoons (typically created by what age of adults?), Electronic games (age of adult creators?), and Electronic games made for three players.
With respect to patterns of three associated with Fairy Tales, let us note that they were developed in past ages when there was a high illiteracy rate among most populations, so memorization by storytellers (with a creative license to modify) was the norm. By stating this let me also note that even though there were multiple people who could read and write at the time of the Fairy Tales compilation, the idea of collecting stories into a volume (to be publicly printed and/or kept as a family heirloom) apparently occurred infrequently. A person's mental landscape needs to be prepared for such an undertaking. Like a genetic trait among a species one might describe as a fluke, mutation, or natural outgrowth to a given set of internal and external environmental pressures, is a way in which we might describe a collection of Fairy Tales, though this same act of compilation can be seen in those few multi-language inscription accounts thus far uncovered. An example of which is the famous duo called the Grimm's Brothers. However, it should be noted that some of the fairy tales well known to many people in the present age such as the 3 bears, 3 pigs, jack and the beanstalk, etc., are said not to be a part of the Grimm's collection, but actually come from the English. Hence, when evaluating the origin of threes in this respect, one must verify sources as best one can.
- Two hundred years ago, two young German librarians by the names of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published a collection of tales that would become one of the most influential works of folklore in Germany, Europe, and eventually the world. The stories the Brothers Grimm first collected are brusque, blunt, absurd, comical, and tragic, and are not, strictly speaking, "fairy tales." In fact, the Grimms never intended the tales to be read by children. The tales are about children and families and how they reacted to the difficult conditions under which they lived. The Grimms thought the stories and their morals emanated naturally from the German people in an oral tradition, and they wanted to preserve them before the tales were lost forever.
- Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales
- The Brothers Grimm were two German folklorists and linguists who are today best known for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–22). This collection of stories, called Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the English-speaking world, led to the modern study of folklore.
- The History of Storytelling
- Aesop's Fables Also → Numerical Analysis of Aesop's Fables Gilgamesh
- Mdtamorphoses (Collection of multiple ideas placed into a long poem)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (a long poem that is essentially about one subject (religion/the idea of an after-life) using multiple patterns-of-three)
- etc...
While all patterns are important as a subjective element of consideration, both the individual and overall collective, need to be applied to some attempt to collate the different patterns into a system of categorization under a heading such as "Cognitively Perceived Patterns"; as a general rule from which to begin, knowing that this rubric, this title, this heading, may well change one or more times as we pursue and grasp a greater comprehension of the phenomena whose study may present us with additional understanding of that which is all the more difficult to be derived— if we use only singular or a few singular instances of a larger availability. Analogously, while a few gold coins may stir a few different ideas, a much larger collection might well be thought of in a grandeur theme of possibility. Using words such as "Psychology" or "Philosophy" or "Metaphysics" and multiple other conventional subject headings does little to provide an incentive for further exploration beyond that already known, though at the era of initial development such words did suffice. In the present context and era, let it be noted that they are perceived as possible stumbling blocks to a greater comprehension because along with traditions of language usage can come traditions of ideas that can produce a cyclicity of understanding where any perceived "newness" is the product of mere reinterpretation of old ideas and nothing contextually different is being offered.
Some observers come to recognize a given pattern related to occupations or a given context and time period and do not make allowances for migrations of thought processing changing hands by way of different languages. Thus, the idea of a "three" may not be permitted to be interpreted as having any correlates in any language. Though this is an atypical case, the problem becomes more manifest when an observation of pattern in one subject is then applied to another subject where the pattern is not an identical twin, and may in fact appear to be an entirely different animals until basic structures are identified and compared. An example of this type of difficulty is seen in the Christian model of a Trinity where any attempted mention of a correlate with some other religion and culture's triad of gods is viewed as a coincidence of simplicities but is substantially different in overall ideology. The situation gets worse if one remarks that the "Nature" of the Christian Trinity is that it arose from a Natural event. Hence, the word Nature and Natural, though they have the same roots, are interpreted to mean unbridgeable distinctions.
Multiple observations are due to more recent threes orientations by people in the living public, such as in the naming of an actor or actress whose middle name is included. Yet, such a practice of naming conventions needs to be distinguished from older ages in which one or two names was sufficient, unless a given person's ego wanted to express a pedigree by providing multiple names expressing family, occupation, and geographical region. And let us not overlook that we of the present are privy to the development of the idea for using three names, which may or may not persist into future generations. While the ancient Romans used a three-part naming convention, this does not appear to be the convention for multiple other ancient cultures, at least I am not familiar with any scholarship in this particular area of research. General accounts yes, but none that are especially tailored to a cross-cultural examination beyond a simple comparative method.
Date of Origination: Aug. 9th, 2024... 4:30 AMInitial Posting: Oct. 21st, 2024... 12:47 PM