Beyond Communicating Chemistry a philosophical interrogative

[Farseed 0]

Cells communicate with chemicals.The chemicals between us. That's all they can sense. They're no more truly aware of "you" as a person than you really are aware of them as an organism. We can't see each other, and typically only germophobes act as if they consider microbial life on a regular basis.Ants chemically communicate much more so than any other manner. Other insects, plants, water creatures operate similarly. "Lower" mammals still use/depend on chemical exhcanges more than we, be it a bloodhound hot on a trail or a lion marking his territory. Now, ants can see us with light and vice versa, but we consider them insignificant. Much as is their ability to communicate with light.Cells swim in chemicals. Ants bathe in them. Cells do not communicate with light past absorbing color and intensity, like chloroplasts. That's a limited amount of information for what light has to offer, and their livesare governed by chemistry. Flying insects see rushing waves of light in broad swaths, instinctually reacting to it but scarcely able to influence it. A firefly sees on or off, not the beauty of a rose or the hope in a child.Humans attune the information in light, drawing patterns and meanings as subtle as last summer's dream.If the chain continues, we must ask ourselves: What do we swim in? What medium are barely aware of that other organisms may use extensively to communicate and interact with? Are we relatively as ineffectual as ants because we lack awareness in some other realm of communication?Time. That must be the higher medium. Time rushes past our lives as we tumble forward, barely comprehending it all. Some of us catch the wave early enough to get a good ride out of it. Some of us are pulled beneath an undertow, so powerfully dousing any hope of future.If we swim in time, barely aware of it as the cells are of light, then what higher being is it that has attuned time and can draw those subtle patterns from within?Who is beyond us?

[Cerebral Stasis 0]

Time isn't something you can touch and manipulate, it's simply the speed at which we interpret the world around us. For example, if our brains could operate twice as fast as they really do, the world we live in would seem to exist in a state only half as fast as the one we know. In theory, however, one could "master time" by speeding up one's thought processes, allowing one to fit a day's worth of thought into merely an hour, and maybe even move fast enough to make it seem as if the rest of the world had stopped, but then there would be other complications, such as a car normally travelling at 60 miles per hour wouldn't seem to move as fast to us, although the effects of being hit by it would be the same.It's a complicated and uncertain science, being, as you said, merely philosophical and theoretical.