Comments on: Eyeballs

By: George

George — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:44:53 +0000

Dear natureguy,

I am not sure, I am still looking into this subject—pardon the pun, please. Maybe light moves in a peculiar way, creating a third or “hybrid” level or type of sight.

Thanks for posting

By: natureguy

natureguy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:35 +0000

I love to follow this kind of thought that always seems to find some kind of continuity or sense to all of the complexity that nature presents us! I believe that it is really a part of scientific effort to take what is known and blend it into a metaphor of what is unknown! Out of this we develope theories which provide constructs for detailed observations and experiments that when duplicated begin to produce consistant results…and then we move on to the next mystery!!! Does it not make sense that the light sensitive nerve cells as they reach out towards light absorption that is most effective to distribute to a more and more complexly developing brain would find a kind of universal pattern that would be most effective…thus the distribution of the roots of a tree. We could call the roots of the tree of life our eyes and the trunk our brain stem and the many branches, leaves and flowers our brain and all of our senses!

natureguy

By: George

George — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:11:21 +0000

Dear Marshall,

Very fascinating post! You leave me with much to ponder. Please post again.

Thank you very much.

By: Marshall Smyth

Marshall Smyth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:10:43 +0000

Evolution is a very fascinating subject, and the evolution of eyes is one of the amazing topics within the area. The form of a typical tree looks like lines on a phylogeny chart. If it were to be viewed as having a collar around the stems of a phylogeny at various levels, even the pattern of an evolutionary phylogeny could be given better more fully descriptive for the places where standard phylogeny falls apart, such as where endosymbiotic relations merge to a single organism from two. Such as when chloroplasts began growing inside cells, creating the first true plant of any kind known today. This more visually correct phylogeny is therefore even more like a tree or an eye in structure, with the collar included. I thank you for the “wow” that let me see this.

By: George

George — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:21:44 +0000

Dear Leslie,

I occasionally greet my bugs here at the farm these days—that is how close we are becoming.

Thanks much

By: Leslie Beck

Leslie Beck — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:20:01 +0000

Bugs, how could one enjoy gardening, love just being outside without being entranced by the beauty, diversity, life cycles and antics of bugs. Growing up in New Mexico we were able to get to know some wonderfully colorful and scary ones.

By: George

George — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:04:33 +0000

Dear James, Thank you for another kind post. You keep threatening to visit Fordhook. When? I enjoy you web log very much, especially the recent photographs. Please keep up the excellent work.

By: James Golden

James Golden — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:01:50 +0000

Fascinating speculation. The eye as a horizontal tree, its roots neuron in the brain, I suppose. I’ll have to find my copy of The Golden Bough, somewhere in one of those boxes in the basement. Thanks for the connections.

By: George

George — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:14:10 +0000

Dear j,

Thank you so much. You said it just right. Blessed work or, as some once put it, “Drudgery Divine”.

By: j

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:13:44 +0000

Great article
Working in this industry and depending on God, keeps open minds