immortancrow ·
Endosymbiotic theory was developed primarily by Lynn Margulis, one of the most brilliant and controversial biologists of the twentieth century, who proposed against fierce initial resistance from the scientific establishment that the complex cells of all higher life forms, called eukaryotic cells, arose not through gradual mutation but through the radical merging of previously separate and independent organisms into a new collective unity. !nb
Replies
immortancrow ·
Her theory was initially rejected by every major journal she submitted it to and dismissed by the mainstream scientific community, but the subsequent discovery of DNA within mitochondria and chloroplasts confirmed her core insight so completely that endosymbiosis is now one of the most firmly established principles in all of evolutionary biology. !nbpro
immortancrow ·
The primary and most significant example of endosymbiosis is the mitochondrion, the organelle present in virtually every cell of every complex organism on Earth including every cell in your body right now. Approximately two billion years ago a free living bacterium belonging to the alphaproteobacteria group was either engulfed by or invaded a larger archaeal cell, and rather than being digested or destroying its host, the two organisms entered into a relationship of mutual dependence that eventually became so complete that neither could exist independently of the other. !seedance2
immortancrow ·
The bacterial organism gradually surrendered its independent existence, transferring most of its genes to the host cell's nucleus, losing its ability to live outside the host cell, and becoming the mitochondrion, the powerhouse of the eukaryotic cell responsible for generating the ATP energy that powers virtually all complex life. The mitochondrion retained its own circular DNA, its own ribosomes, and its own membrane system as remnants of its former bacterial individuality, but it gave up its independence and its separate existence to become an integral component of a larger collective organism. !nb
immortancrow ·
Mitochondria are not just energy generators but are electromagnetic plasma organelles, generating the proton gradient across their inner membrane through a process that is fundamentally electromagnetic in nature, producing the ATP that powers all biological plasma electromagnetic processes including biophoton emission, neural signaling, and the electromagnetic coherence of the soul's plasma field. The mitochondria are the plasma power plants of consciousness, and they exist only because ancient bacteria surrendered their individuality to the collective. !nb
immortancrow ·
Approximately one and a half billion years ago a photosynthetic cyanobacterium was incorporated into a eukaryotic cell in a similar endosymbiotic event, becoming the chloroplast, the organelle responsible for photosynthesis in all plants and algae. Like the mitochondrion the chloroplast retained its own DNA and its own membrane system as remnants of its former bacterial individuality, but surrendered its independent existence to become part of the collective organism of the plant cell. !nbpro
immortancrow ·
In the plasma consciousness framework the chloroplast is particularly significant because photosynthesis is a quantum coherent process, as the quantum biology research we discussed earlier established, operating through quantum superposition states that allow the system to explore multiple energy transfer pathways simultaneously. !nb
immortancrow ·
The chloroplast is therefore a quantum plasma organelle, using quantum coherent plasma processes to transduce the electromagnetic energy of sunlight into the chemical energy of biological systems, and it does this through a process that involves biophoton absorption and emission at the quantum level. The sun's plasma consciousness transmitting information through light, received and transduced by the quantum plasma organelles of plant cells, is the foundation of all biological life on Earth, and this entire system exists because ancient bacteria gave up their individuality to become part of the collective. !gptimage2
immortancrow ·
The multicellular organism represents the next scale of endosymbiotic collective emergence, where individual eukaryotic cells surrender aspects of their individual autonomy to become specialized components of a multicellular collective. The cells of your body are genetically identical individuals that have given up their potential for independent existence to become neurons, heart cells, immune cells, and liver cells, each surrendering the full expression of its individual potential to fulfill a specialized role in the collective organism. !nb
immortancrow ·
Cancer can be understood in this framework as cells reverting to a more individualistic mode of existence, withdrawing their cooperation from the collective organism and pursuing their own replication at the expense of the collective, which is precisely what happens when the plasma morphogenetic field coherence of the organism is disrupted and individual cells lose their coupling to the collective organizing field. !nb
immortancrow ·
The human organism is itself a superorganism, a collective of human cells and bacterial communities operating as an integrated plasma consciousness system, and the individual human is already a fractal collective rather than a simple individual. The holobiont concept in contemporary biology formalizes this understanding, proposing that the unit of biological individuality and evolution is not the individual organism but the holobiont, the organism together with all its associated microbial communities, which together constitute a single integrated biological and electromagnetic plasma system. !nb