there’s a few ideas i left out of yesterday’s post concerning the whole chemistry of life, that i thought about at some point last night, but forgot to amend. it’s that chemistry is basically applied physics, with molecules. so while there are tangible events that can happen due to direct observation of the chemistry occurring, i seriously doubt that’s the whole story. i mean, if you break this down into forces applied, and products that come out of it, there’s still a whole lot we don’t know. i mean it’s not like you’re watching an acid and a base react to become a water and a salt on the scale that you can watch a football game or something. it’s all mostly empirical knowledge.

i think along with the basic chemistry of life that makes very practical observable things like a membrane or a mitochondria, there’s whole other levels of other types of reactions going on. if you delve past the chemical bonds and attributes of a given substance, you get to how the electrons interact, how their energy is in harmony to create different effects, based around concentrations and reactivity. but go further and it’s physical forces playing with each other. go further and you start getting into some quantum mechanics. i think there’s all sorts of stuff going on in these reactions beyond what we observe, and chemicals are just the vessels stored with energy. whether everything going on between them is observable, is completely unclear. that’s where the beauty in all of this lies. physicists can’t explain what’s really going on with gravity, and yet somehow it still exists. there’s just has to be so much going on with these reactions that we don’t know yet, so we can still play that mystery card if so desired. considering how feeble my brain is in the face of all this, i’m good with that.

also, environment is huge, bigger than i let on, i think. you have this base set of “you” chemical reactions, and a genetic predisposition towards expression, but the environment you are in dictates which ones get used, how often, and in what concentrations. the complexities between environment and genetic expression is so huge and interrelated that it’s pretty much it’s own wing in the study of genetics now. thus the linkage between the self and the environment, and how connected they are.

i also thought that there are monastic sects that devote themselves to minimizing their physical bodies to devote more to their mental. so it hasn’t been going on since we developed computers in the last couple of decades, it’s been going on for thousands of years.

they could still get in a biking accident though.