The Barcode Model of Evolution
Oh My God!
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Let me provide a very brief introduction to Biological threes with a basic image of the 3 life domains, though others have posed alternative ideas with less and more domains. (Note, the the 3 domain system, it is the 3rd domain from which we humans proliferate):
It is absolutely incredulous to believe that out of all the millions upon million upon millions of people who have studied biology, no one has mentioned the instance of a recurring three pattern. Much less used a comparative from of instrumentation labeled curiosity to probe other subjects in an effor to discover whether it exists there as well. By dismissing it by saying it is merely one of many cognitive patterns, but don't take an assessment of how many or how few cognitive patterns are actually being used, such a retort is no answer. This is like saying there are lots of plots in stories, only to find that those who have searched have only uncovered six or seven or eight plots, depending on who you ask and how a plot is defined. If we take a repetitions 1- 2- 3 pattern to heart and employ a minimalist or conservation effect to the use of enumeration, a barcode representing life in terms of a given number and alphabet system might well be illustrated with an evolution aligned Barcode for its many different life categories:
Assuming the minimalist (conservative) position is that a number can only be repeated twice, we come up with the foregoing illustration, if it is three times (thrice), the Barcode would look differently. Should it be Binary, or Trinary?
Whereas the "three" pattern has been seen in religion, in mythology, and in Fairy Tales, nothing of its recurring presence has been mentioned by those involved in writing or teaching biology. Oh don't get me wrong, since my lists of biological threes come from various textbooks and articles about biological subjects, multiple three-patterned ideas are described, but they don't see the repetition as a distinct criteria of development or overall Evolution. If I were to use the information to advance some religious doctrine, particularly if I focused on a specific religion, the idea would... as they say in this era of social media... go viral. When I see the multitude of religious examples with a 3-pattern, all I can see is that it represents a selective segment of human cognition using religion as just another avenue of expression.
The problem with selecting a particular beginning such as by resorting to a 3-word biblical formula of "In the Beginning" type of statement, is that I find it is necessary to select which particular single or group of three item(s) (or examples) I want to focus on, since many of them appear to have independent origins... at least on an initial superficial examination. In many cases I find that a given example of a "three" is just the off-shoot of another pattern, which may not be a three pattern itself. Some examples of a three or third position arise from a 2nd position which they in turn had arisen from a single position (like the development of the three Germ layers), but this reference should not be used as a defined universal standard. And yet, the single pattern may not have an easily seen extant form nor have arrived at from an enumerated pattern itself. For example, if the beginning of all Germ Layers came from a "glob" of jello, would we attach the numerical value of zero or one to it? Or perhaps that which it is made of having arisen by a conglomeration of multiplicity that has a set number of parts like the organelles of a plant or animal cell? In some instances you may find that a given non-three pattern does link to some other pattern which may or not be a three or even a common enumeration, because it is in the form of a geometric pattern that you have not thought about in terms of enumeration... and yet you made this discovery by first looking at a three pattern in hopes of finding its originating source.
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.
Astrologers, Astronomers, Chiropractors, Race horse owners, the Federal Reserve, academic, political, and product polls or surveys, and multiple other activities all rely on some measure of educated guesswork alternatively described as guesstimation. While some people achieve a more consistent level of interpretation and predictive ability about past, present and future events, they are all versions of past soothsayers, prognosticators, and alternative thinkers; with noted particular personalities in the past named the 3 fates, 3 furies, 3 gorgons, and yes, the 3-headed dog or 3-headed serpent whose heads duplicate if they are chopped off. In all cases the "pro"-fessionals and "proto" (pseudo)-fessionals look for and analyze patterns. All such practitioners are frequently rated by how much money is attached to their abilities or the value of the prestige they carry in a given setting. Some may be jerks with the proverbial rocks for brains, but their position in a valued profession at least makes them a professional jerk idiot, as compared to a jerk without some measure of respectable social standing or significant mental qualification.
And for those thinking I am engaging in a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, they are very wrong. It is more to the point that I am engaging in an "Obsessive-Compulsive Order", just like so many others who practice at a sporting or other craft, be it Archery, Angling, Art, baking, basketball, basket weaving, contraption building, cat burglaring, cartooning, fencing, cattle rustling, arm wrestling, etc... Yet, it doesn't control my day or lead to unwanted thoughts which prevent me from doing multiple other chores and duties. I am not particularly bothered by my interest in threes, but I am taken aback by the lack of referencing so-called psychology and mathematical professionals don't also supply a positive perspective along with their negative ones regarding a numerical repetition. While three is a number frequently cited by those discussing obsessive compulsive disorder, I have not found any study which details all the numbers used by Obessive-Compulsive individuals, and whether the number 3 or some other number is dominant in all cultures. It may be the case that a different culture's obsessive-compulsives use a different number pattern. It would make for an interesting dissertation if it were combined with other ideas I have in mind. (And no, someone reading this is not going to plagiarize my idea and claim it to be their own, so I will refrain from speaking of the other ideas to be compared with.)
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".
MNuch 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 that 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...
Initial Posting: Sat. Oct. 17th, 2024... 11:50 AM