The Bold Organism
If you lack this vital quality, you’re done — I mean it
Utanishow nini banaaa? –Utanishow, Octopizzo
For the organism to survive in the world it has to be bold.
There it is.
Without it, you are done. Finished. Kaput.
In a universe where the future is opaque and uncertain, and the consequences of one’s actions unpredictable, every action one takes has to be met with some level of boldness.
What about ideas?
According to Karl Popper, a scientific theory has to have bold assertions for it to survive some analysis and experimental tests.
If it lacks boldness, it perishes at the initial steps of its formulation.
Similarly, for an organism to exist in a harsh universe, it has to display bold features.
And all organisms, as we understand them, and as I have described them elsewhere, display these features.
Particles and organisms share this trait — here’s how
Firstly, particles contain properties that allow them to easily merge with others. This is the property of self-assembly.
In the field of chemistry, self-assembly explains a lot of organic and inorganic properties of compounds.
In the cell, proteins also have this trait.
Extended to other scales in biology, the same property is known as self-organization.
Self-organization can be seen in how cells interact with each other to produce certain outcomes otherwise not predictable from the cellular components. These interactions generate emergent properties.
Robustness is one of the properties seen in such self-organized systems. It is a testament to the boldness of a system.
Robustness means the system contains safety features that prevent it from destruction. The tree can continue living even after a part of its bark has been scraped off. Human temperature can be maintained within a particularly narrow range regardless of the climate or the altitude.
These robust organismal properties earn them the title: bold.
It takes force to break a plank of wood. It takes extreme temperatures to kill living organisms. Archaebacteria can survive extreme environmental conditions.
If that is not bold then I don’t know what bold is.
Here’s one bold artist you need to know about
Bold is when Octopizzo asks: Utanishow? (What can anyone tell me?)
It is seen when he claims:
Ni hii sheng’, nilibuyingi nyumba ni hii sheng’ (It was sticking to this rap style that earned him fame and wealth enough to buy a house)
Octopizzo made bold moves to be where he is in the Kenyan and global rap space.
If it were not for bold ambitions, bold moves, and bold risks, there would be no organisms, no living organisms, and no evolution.
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