uniqueness, originality and some totally wierd thoughts ...

Each and every work of art in the world is something created in the mind of some idiot. That idiot has obviously seen loads of other things made by other idiots. Of course, that work of art then, is not free of influences from the works of all those other idiots. It is a wierd mosaic of borrowings from a million works by a million idiots. In that sense it is not original. It is only unique, as it is a distinct combination of various peices.

Lets talk about the first man on the planet ... Adam or whoever ... cause I'm sure he was too much of an idiot to name himself. I mean, he was the first man for gods sake ... and that is the same as an ape!

Now when Adam made something by himself, was that original? I think not. He did not see anything any other man did. But he did see loads of wierd things done by loads of wierd animals. And so what he did was not original.

Now if we think of the first life form capable of creating anything in the world. What that idiot created ... can we call that original. Again, I don't think so. Before creating anything, he obviously had some forms of sensory organs. And if he had sensory organs, he did see/hear/smell/feel something out there that was a part of his creation. It wasn't original then.

Whats the point to all of this?

Only this that every creation is unique but not original. It is unique because there has been none like it till then. Its not original because nothing is. Everything has something from the seconds of time before the second in which it was created. The past lives on in the present and the present moves on into the future.

More importantly, the entire creation cycle is progressively growing to be more complicated. As each passing second leads to new wisdom being imbibed by life, all of this is definitely building up to something.

While we don't realise, all of this has got to be tied up to the fate of the universe. Till now the view of the universe has been in terms of matter and energy and space and time. It started as nothing and moved to energy, space and time. Energy moved to matter. Matter moved from just plain mass to mass and charge. All of this moved to hydrogen atoms. This grew to heavier atoms and more complicated forms in which energy was trapped. As we move up the periodic table, energy is trapped in more and more complicated forms.

And then we come to the origin of life. What is life if not the most complicated form in which energy can be trapped? And as it keeps evolving, it keeps trapping energy in more and more complex forms.

Think this - if you were to see and atom, you would see an electron going round and round the nucleus. Dont think of reasons for now. You would see just an electron going round and round right?

Now if someone out there were to see you in the city where you stay? If I were to see you, I would see a very complicated molecule staying inside another very completed molecule and getting into motion at defined times, using some very complicated molecules that keep moving along certain defined paths, and going to a fixed complicated molecule and buzzing around for a decided period of time, and then moving out and going to meet another complicated molecule, spending variable periods of time there and then coming back to the complicated molecule where it started from. Sorry, that was a description of your daily routine.

Is that not a much more advanced version of the hydrogen atom?

Ok, I guess its getting really wierd. But I quite enjoyed thinking it up. And it sounds plausible too.

- Kashy