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And if the Big Bang was a "reboot" of the system, after a Big Bug... oops... after the so-called "original sin"?
And all this evolutionary process that followed, crawling and trying to escape death... Everything seems very beautiful after the reboot, but imperfect, with the consequences of the bug...

It seems to me that every event happening in this universe is an attempt to make life possible. However, life depends on the other's death – this is not what I would call “perfection”. Despite this mess, we have a kind of ancestral instinct, I would dare say, an ancestral memory of survival; we are always trying to recover, an impulse leading us to progress. Whatever it is, something wrong must have happened to the universe that it ended up in this imperfection. There must be something wider out there that what we cannot fathom for now…

In other scale, it could be something similar to the agent that damages the cell and triggers its desperate multiplication (in cancer), despite the harmful effects caused to other tissues and even leading to the loss of the whole organism. I get more and more convinced that the behavior of the cancer cell is a desperate attempt to survive after an injury caused by a harmful agent, like radiation, just to mention one. The damage it causes is interpreted as a lethal danger, and the cell starts to act according to an almost invincible mechanism of multiplication, in order to keep itself alive. But it is chaotic, and leads to disproportionate consequences. It is the power of life acting on a system that is in error, a “basic error”.

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At a universal level, something drastically wrong really must have happened to life in order to explain all this chaotic condition, not perfect at all. It is very tempting to believe in a damaging agent affecting the universe, and it could be something some religions call “original sin”. Obviously, I do not believe in traditional narratives literally; they are full of allegories, but probably as a result of inspired philosophical thoughts. What happened? I do not know. We are too insignificant to realize how and why. But the result is clear for everyone to see: every single unit in this universe is trying to survive and cannot escape from death.
(Excerpt from: VIEIRA-MONTFILS, M.C. In the backstage of cancer. Petropolis, Brazil: KBR, 2015: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00W46DHR6)

INSTINCT IMMORTEL

Pourquoi ça fait mal, si on meurt?

Pourquoi les pleurs?

Ce n’est pas le normal?

Quel instinct ancestral

d’un bercail si fragile

répudie ses périls?

Quelle loi naturelle nous rend si tristes?

Ce n’est pas l’habituel?

Et pourquoi ça fait si mal

cet instinct immortel?
(VIEIRA-MONTFILS, M.C. Fenêtre Virtuelle. Acton Vale, Canada: COOLSEA, 2011)
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