Delusion of free choice

 

 

We are a walking colony of different kinds of cells sewn together in a symbiotic relationship where they are all working in unison and yet often vying against each other to each get their fundamental needs met namely the supply of adequate amounts of oxygen and fuel so that their metabolisms can continue to convert said fuel into the building blocks necessary for growth maintenance or replication early in the process of our being in utero there was a differentiation of tasks where our genetic materials started to form itself into various role-based clumps of cells that would then later govern our experience as sentient beings the biological instructions for how to do this are all encoded in the DNA itself the cells all serve a purpose in the attainment of the DNA's overall goal which is survival but the DNA can only survive so long in one particular lifetime due to the constraints placed upon it by nature. Namely the length of its own telomeres, the telomeres contain instructions for the DNA to use in its replication, a replication that it needs to undertake in order to survive in the lifetime of its host many times because cells live and die and thus need to be replaced due to being overly exerted being subject to malnourishment or being the victim of toxicity and perhaps even being the victim of an attack from viruses bacteria or cancer every time the DNA replicates the telomeres are shortened because each newly created Cell Maps a bit of the telomer's instructions for its own usage going forward, and here's a fundamental problem with the phenomenon that is life; the shortening of the telomeres means that instructions for how the DNA should replicate are lost and thus after a certain point in time the human that is host to the DNA replication starts to age and fall apart because the instructions are just not present in newly replicated cells within its body and so there is a lacking in its scripting with regard to how it should react to the pressures of life and so memories are lost, joints ache, senses deteriorate and unfortunately the body's own immunity is negatively impacted by this aging process as its inbuilt defense mechanisms such as autophagy, white blood cells, antibodies, lymph nodes the spleen or the thymus all start to lose their abilities to protect the overall symbiotic relationship of their Union, otherwise known as the human body and so with each passing moment the human moves towards an inevitable death because no matter how hard the human tries to retain vitality the DNA always seeks to replicate and thus time will run out for the human eventually and it will succumb to the Grim Reaper's call. Alas the DNA molecule is not overly concerned with the body of its host or what happens to it as It suffers from aging rather it is seeking to use it while it can to continue onward in the body of another vessel for its mindless journey of survival and so old people are discarded as their telomere shorten and the DNA traverses onwards in the bodies of new crying babies who were yet to realize the trouble they are in but are rather fittingly crying all the same everything that babies do will be in the service of their cells needs which are all in turn controlled by the instructions encoded in their DNA the instructions do not care about how the human feels, for the instructions have no feelings in and of themselves and so the humans will be driven by feelings of despair, loneliness, mania, depression, love, fear and fluctuations of their endocrine system that will cause them to have wants that they can't choose what they are, mere desires for they are messages sent to their consciousness through some chemically induced communication from the DNA that governs their very cells the little microscopic units that call out insatiably to get their needs met and the human will trust these needs up with all manner of overcomplicated romantic notions and bizarrely think of them as some great quest that comes from their conscious experience when in reality their consciousness is just a tool that is used to serve the call of their cells which in turn are being instructed by their DNA encoding which is just a set of instructions that get physically damaged by the phenomenon of being an also shortened as they continuously replicate with each new cell losing some of the vitality of its originator until the cells lose the ability to function and burst and leak with their metabolic rate becomes useless in its encoded aim of providing energy for its nucleus and so the cells die like little candles blowing out in the wind one by one until the light in the eyes of the human that was once their host is also extinguished.