Notes

        You were reading an article on BBC titled: “On How the Leopard Got His Spots” by Katia Moskvitch and it dawned on you that the genes that trigger such spots (which, according to the article, are set for camouflage via the environment). Genes therefore have a learning mechanism most likely based on trial and error. The point, to you, is that genetic learning is quite intricate and subtle, this is done as the brain is developing which leads you to wonder what the genetic ‘master brain’ is and how can it calculate matters such as spots on leopards to stripes on tigers?

         Evolution suggests trial and error, but it appears this has to be reasoned out. Bird migration has the same sense to me, and honey bee communication. No need to learn geometry or algebra or even to count to ten. Inherited knowledge. What is human inherited knowledge? Is this where the early shamans came in? If there is a division between the very old Dead and the newer Dead in the script then this concept might be exploited to drive home questions people normally don’t ask themselves except perhaps when awake and find themselves in bed staring at the ceiling at two or three in the morning.

         Yesterday, a former student, Jay N., sent you a forward why don’t you include it here:

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal on Monday, indicate that Palaeolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough.

"It's like a flat bread, like a pancake with just water and flour," said Laura Longo, a researcher on the team from the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History.

"You make a kind of pita and cook it on the hot stone," she said, describing how the team replicated the cooking process. The end product was "crispy like a cracker but not very tasty," she added.

The grinding stones, each of which fit comfortably into an adult's palm, were discovered at archaeological sites in Italy, Russia and the Czech Republic. The researchers said their findings throw mankind's first known use of flour back some 10,000 years, the previously oldest evidence having been found in Israel on 20,000 year-old grinding stones. The findings may also upset fans of the Paleolithic diet, which follows earlier research that assumes early humans ate a meat-centered diet.

Also known as the caveman diet, the regime frowns on carbohydrate-laden foods like bread and cereal, and modern-day adherents eat only lean meat, vegetables and fruit. It was first popularized by the gastroenterologist Walter L. Voegtlin, whose 1975 book lauded the benefits of the hunter-gatherer diet.

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         I meant to mention about the bread this yesterday but forgot. I wrote and told Jay that this material is good stuff and that it would fit in for where I am in chapter six right now. Good fortune for this as well as Doug’s note on point particles in quantum mechanics. Photons are also point particles which is cool because light and thought are basic to the story as well as consciousness. Things just seem to fall together sometimes and it is no different in putting these books together – this kind of experience has happened several times – coincidence, which when thought about too much always seems to muddy my mind.

         Post. More later, old man. – Amorella.