Leviathan

Every living thing

As tentacles of experience

Evolving to explore

To evolve more and more. . .

From a single leviathan

Named after life

Refined by death

Across all forms of living

On a wave of expansion

Across oceans of time

Towards the cosmic horizon

We are everyone of us

Just a sentient part of this

Timeless leviathan

Reviews

[KO21]

Question: Without a belief in reincarnation can life actually be said to be refined by death? Or does refinement only occur in the interval between birth and dying?
Ps. 2nd line.. 'As' or 'Has' ?

[Davidgeo]

Belief and evolution are entirely unrelated. Refinement occurs through a the mechanisms of evolution... natural selection, mutation, gene flow, etc., etc..

And no, it absolutely is supposed to be "as" on line 2. I am contemplating all life as a single organism exploring the cosmos by way of different species over time across the entirety of our universe.

[KO21]

I don't think that belief has anything to do with evolution either. I do think that evolution and refinement go together. But because I also don't think that anything is 'refined by death', I was curious to know what you meant by the phrase. Hence the question.

[Davidgeo]

Extinction is a form of refinement... when a top species can no longer successfully reproduce in it's environment it either adapts or dies out. And whatever can survive in said environment takes it's place, thrives and eventually takes it's place in a adapted food chain. The last major extinction event is the only reason mammals like humans are now the dominant species on the planet. Mammals survived the aftermath and evolved into what we are today, the dinosaurs did not, by and large, survive at all (some of the small ones evolved into birds, various lizards, etc... but all the big ones that dominated the planet died out).

[Davidgeo]

The phrase I would emphasize is 'natural selection'.

[KO21]

The Whole is refined by the death of its Parts? I guess I can live with that. It's been nice talking. Stay well.

[Davidgeo]

Likewise. Have a glorious a Wednesday.