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Mike Vandeman a �crit :
> What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature,
> From an Objective (Biocentric) Point of View?
> Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.
> July 4, 2002
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> 
> 	It is obvious that we are a part of nature, or we couldn't
> touch and interact with it. The real question is Which part of nature
> are we?

Let's start with trying to understand what is "nature".

 From a scientific point of view, we can all see, hear, touch
and taste parts of this "nature".

We know nature is there.

Nature is a huge organism, with roots up to 4KM deep into the Earth
crust, maybe deeper. (Yes, bacteria have been found there).

The upper parts reach out into the stratosphere, where seeds of
micro-organisms have been also found.

Nature covers the whole surface of the planet, most of the surface
of the oceans, it can be found near the poles, in host springs in the
ocean floor, everywhere, in each square centimeter of the
surface of the planet.

Why is it an organism?

Because of its underlying unity, its shared code, and the
basic makeup of all its forms:

o A common code
o A common 20 letter amino-acid alphabet
o Many common pathways like breathing, photosynthesis,
   ATP as common energy currency, and many other similarities
   between ALL parts of this huge body.

This organism, "Nature", has been living here since
at least 4 000 million years.

And humans, like all other species, are living inside
her body. We need, as all heterotrophic animals, parts
of nature's body each day, to keep living. We eat
ONLY parts of her body.

Now, from the point of view of this being, it is reaching
the last part of its life.

The sun will grow too hot and will destroy all life on
earth in 1 Billion years more. For an organism already 4 billion
years old, this means that it is reaching the last part of her life.

Many times, nature has been compared to a tree. The tree of life.
And, like a tree, nature can't move.  It is too deeply rooted
onto this planet, like a tree, it shares the fate of the planet.

But, as anyone knows, trees DO MOVE.

When the spring comes, trees make SEEDS, that allow them to cross the
depths of time and the depths of space.

What does an ecological whole planet organism do?

It makes intelligent beings, that will carry its seed into space
and will be her SEEDS.

For 4 000 million years nature did not have any use and did not have
any need to make intelligent beings. Only now, when spring has
come, the clocks running in her huge organism told that the time is
ripe, that the time has come.

It is the spring of man.

This is surely not a conscious process, Nature doesn't "decide"
to do, or "creates" in an anthropomorphic way because obviously
Nature is NOT human at all, nor is she a "god" made with a human image.

What are the processes that govern the actions of a 4 000 billion
years old being? How does it "think", how does it coordinate?

Nobody knows, but surely all those "God" theories are completely wrong.
Nature is not "God", nor is invisible, nor is she "unknowable"
she is just the Mother.

And as any birth, the birth of man is difficult and it hurts.
We are too clumsy, too stupid, enveloped in our consciousness
of semi-apes, repeating our instincts of aeons ago, in a context
where they make no longer sense at all.

And we destroy, we plunder, we behave worst than animals.

But somehow, deep inside our ape brains we know what we are
supposed to do. In only 6 thousand years of history we have
reached the whole solar system, we know, we will get eventually
out of our craddle.

It is the spring of man.

And like a ripe fruit, we start traveling in the void,
carrying the seed.

All this environmental catastrophe is very easy to solve, and
I am confident we will eventually solve it. We were designed to
do this, and we will do it because it is our destiny, to take
the place of man in evolution.

Until now, all evolution, all designs were adaptations to
the environment, exploitation of one ecological niche
in the grand plan of nature's body.

We do not longer evolve like that.

Fifty years ago, in an instant of insight, one human circuit
realized how nature writes her software.

Fifty years later, two teams of human circuits, led by the
same circuit: James Watson, asked again a new question to Mother:

GIVE US OUR BOOK, GIVE US OUR CODE!

We want to read it ALL!!!

And we took our book, and cut it in a thousand pieces, and with
our own circuits, we reacreated the sequence, the whole sequence
of the book of man.

Evolution will never be the same when a circuit can understand
his own code and can WRITE his own code as he/she wants!

To start the conscious evolution of beings.

That is also the place of man.

Yes, this is the spring.

Yes, that is our place in the body of our mother.