Freedom – Emancipation from Matter
Friday, January 30th, 2009Both human development and the evolution of life share another significant trend – a journey towards greater freedom from physical constraints.
Some early evolutionary examples of increasing degrees of freedom are the processes by which living systems obtained energy. Evolutionary biologists believe that early living cells used simple fermentation. These bacteria broke sugar molecules down into smaller molecules such as carbon dioxide and water, taking for their own use the energy which bound these molecules together.