Monday, May 23, 2022
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic Tree
This piece I am writing with anger and disgust.
I have lot of books in many fields including,Science, Biology, Linux, Buddhism and lot of dictionaries.
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1. I love Linux.
Even though, it's kernel is of several million lines of coding but with about 10 commands, I can get to what I want to explore in Linux.
With my favorite Debian and with LibreOffice, I can finish writing a book in 3 days.
But I prefer AbiWord for my writings.
This is not so with other utilities.
2. Dhamma inherits it's words in Pali and with a Pali Dictionary in hand I can attempt to understand the meaning in Pali.
By the way, some modern Buddhist monks have made a mockery of Dhamma interpretation, that vary from a monk to a monk.
I follow only Satipattana and 37 Bhodhipakkariyadhammas.
That's it.
In Dhamma there is meaning (atta), condition or law (dhamma), etymology (nirutti) and understanding (patibhana).
They are collectively called Patisambhida.
3. I hate all languages especially French since the syntax of which is confusing and spoken language is dissimilar varying from person to person.
I am only interested in reading texts in French not speaking it except for greeting someone nicely.
It is as pleasant language in that sense, unlike German or English.
English has borrowed so many words from other languages.
It has no way of avoiding adding more and more words to the ever enlarging dictionary.
When I started learning French at the age of 55, I thought all what I need is a basic text and a good dictionary but I was proven wrong.
By the way, I sat GCE (O) Level and had a pass in French and a distinction in English, well past 55 years.
4. I hate psychology by default.
One day I browsed a dictionary of psychology and found it has more words than all the words combined, in three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
No wonder psychologist commit suicide more often than a radiologist or a pathologist who sees, the things in perspective, instead of attaching any significance or bondage or emotion.
Bit of dry sense and bare bone medicine has not being inspiring to me.
A radiologist sees a shadow of an object and pathologist sees it after the fact or death.
Both professions may point these findings to a disease process or more but have no clinical responsibility to treat the living or consoling the dead, unless, it is a case of murder when a forensic guy takes over.
In other words psychologists are entangled in their own cooked up terminology with no meaning to the subject in suffering, they are trying to treat.
They poor subject is dosed up with a drug ultimately and with no escape.
So it is better not to have a language or have a primitive pidgin language for communication.
I think prehistoric man never had psychological disease but fear of some sort to a real situation at hand was their problem, for example lightening, thunder or inclement weather.
All religions have not answered this basic fear but has added another layer of confusion and many more words.
I was looking for as diagram showing phylogenetic tree of evolution on this planet from all my biology books and I could not find anything worthwhile.
I used Google search engine and found a link to Wikipedia but the entry was in bits and pieces.
Phylogenetic Tree
A phylogenetic tree is a branching diagram, like a family tree for species, that graphically represents the evolutionary relationships between a group of organisms or genetic sequences. It shows how different life forms are related based on physical traits or genetic similarities and differences, with branches showing evolutionary divergence from common ancestors. The tips of the tree represent the organisms or groups being studied, while the nodes (or branching points) represent hypothetical common ancestors.
Tips (or Leaves):
These are the endpoints of the branches and represent the species or other biological entities being studied.
Nodes:
These are the branching points where lineages diverge, representing a hypothetical common ancestor from which descendant groups evolved.
Branches:
The lines connecting the nodes and tips. The length of the branches can sometimes indicate the amount of evolutionary change or time that has passed.
Root:
The base of a rooted tree, which represents the most recent common ancestor of all the taxa in the tree.
Evolutionary Relationships:
The pattern of branching illustrates how species or groups have diverged from a series of common ancestors.
Common Ancestry:
The tree suggests that all life on Earth is connected through common ancestry, a fundamental concept in evolutionary biology.
Relatedness:
Two species are considered more closely related if they share a more recent common ancestor (i.e., their split occurred more recently).
Understanding History:
They help us visualize the evolutionary history and lineage of different organisms.
Genetic Studies:
They are built using molecular data (like DNA or protein sequences) to understand relationships and functions of genes.
Disease Outbreaks:
They can be used to trace the evolutionary patterns of infectious agents, helping to understand outbreaks.
My current interest is how the brain developed from monkeys to apes to human and even the embryology book, I bought has very limited entry on brain and it's development.
There is something wrong in the teaching of science globally including medicine.
They are inundated with massive knowledge base.
It is not limited to psychology.
I have decided to a write few books under 100 pages starting with cloud formation, physics, lightening, phobias, mind and rebirth.
But power cuts are hindering my efforts.
So cellphone has come to my rescue and diffuse the pent up pressure due to no gas and no electricity.
Hunger I have decided to stomach but not mental boredom.
The Knowledge base has become money spinner including Wikipedia.
