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The topic is life and water. Life as we know it requires water. No other solvent can be substituted for water. No enzymes will work without water. Even the DNA needs to be hydrated at least 30%, to form its active shape.

Some theories have proposed life evolving with other solvents. But this lacks any tangible proof, since nobody has actually formed or observed life within any other solvent. The question is why is water to singular with respect to life as we know?

I remember years ago thinking about a plant seed. I added water and it came to life. The seeds contains all the DNA and proteins needed for life, but before adding the water, it was inanimate. When I added water it slowly hydrated and life appears. I was always curious how this occurs. My hope is a create discussion that can shed light on the unique role of water.

Hello to All:

I haven't been to this site in exactly one year. It was not planned that way, but coincidences seem to happen to me. I have learned many idea and angles and look forward to sharing with the community.

HydrogenBond

In very general terms, people can be classified as introverts and extroverts. With extroverts, when their brain processes data, brain energy/current goes quickly to output devices, such as the voice box. With introverts, the same brain processing is diverted more away from output devices (voice box), into further thought.

Does anyone know where the switching place is?

Although an extrovert can stop talking and think, this takes will power since the brain wants to divert energy to the output devices (prefers to talk). Although an introvert can output data and talk for long periods of time, this may take some willpower since their output wants to divert inward.

Maybe another example of the contrast would be a charismatic speaker. They can get a lot of output devices working due to the brain energy fully diverted to output devices. Besides good voice command for emotional modulation, there can also employ output devices connected to animated body language. The introvert may often sound more monotone, since there is less energy going into output devices and more into introverting. I was looking for the switching station to see if it is possible to change the current ratio since most people can consciously switch to either, but tend run on the cruise control using their natural switch position.

Emotion and reason are two orientating functions. Both in their own way, define cause and effect. The main difference is the time element.

As an example, a husband might caress his wife, with his touch placing her in the mood for love. The cause and effect is the touch and the emotion. The next week, he may do the exact same thing, but she may not be in the same mood. Now the cause and effect to the touch is connected to a different emotion. In the short term, there was cause and effect in each situation.

Cool reason, without emotion, tends to define cause and effect for a longer duration of time. If you put your hand in the flame it will get burnt. It does not matter if one is in the mood or not. Being cool reason, the cause and effect is occurs over longer time, apart from the shorter duration cause and effects of emotion.

During the fall, the new fall fashions arrive creating an emotional excitement. As soon as the winter comes, the cause and effect of this excitement fades for fall fashions. The excitement is now connected to the winter fashions. If we wait one year until the beginning of the next fall, the fall fashions of last year, which had created the excitement for the fall of last year, no longer will define the same cause and effect. This may seem irrational, but it is only irrational in terms of the longer duration time element associated with cool reason. But in the shorter term duration of an emotional orientation, there is cause and effect.

If we blend emotion and logic we can create mid-duration perception of cause and effect. This would be reason blended with emotion, or emotion blended with reason. An example of the first might be the election cycle and the emotional excitement created as the candidates outline the logic of their orientations. Most typically, this does not pan out in the long term, since the logic was define for mid-duration to get emotion on board. An example of the second may be someone who gets angry, with little provocation. As they begins to see this cause and effect, their outburst may shift only to the genuine need to be angry.

The golden generation was a masculine culture, where men did not express emotions. The cool reason would have been expected to make culture reflect this longer duration cause and effect, such as a lifetime marriage or job. When men were taught to be in touch with their emotions, culture became shorter term. For example the job life cycle has shortened. One can rationalize this, but the reasoning will be within the context of logic and emotion, which defines a mid-term time scale.

It is all cause and effect, but the interesting point is the tweaking of the time scale for the cause and effect.

This idea came to me the other day. Red bloods do not have DNA. Their job is connected to the exchange of O2/CO2 between all the other cells via hemoglobin. These cells develop in the bone marrow and circulate for about 100–120 days in the body before their components are recycled by macrophages.

Here is the scenario. Hypothetically, say the red blood cells had nuclei/DNA and were able to replicate within the blood. Could this account for the large size of dinosaurs?

The logic is, if the red blood cells could divide in the blood, the amount of O2/CO2 exchange would amplify with time. As long as there is sufficient food input, the accelerating level of possible O2/CO2 exchange could support accelerating cell division and activity, as well as provide a very rich O2/fuel ratio in the muscles. The neurons don't replicate after a certain point. Plus there is a blood/brain barrier. If this was still in effect, the brain size may not grow in the same accelerating, but will nevertheless be fed high levels of O2 for high activity.