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Life has been present since the beginning of the Universe
Evolution, Information and Golden Ratio
One of the characteristics of living beings is their ability to store and manage information. Considering such a characteristic, it is possible to distinguish the following seven evolutionary milestones from the origin of the Universe:
-Emergence of ”Seeds of Life”(1) (thirteen thousand eight hundred million years ago).
-Emergence of LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) three thousand eight hundred million years ago
-Emergence of the brain (five hundred and fifty million years ago).
-Emergence of what was the precursor of human language (2) (twenty-seven million years ago)
-Emergence of the language that characterizes us(3) (around two hundred and twenty thousand years ago).
-Emergence of “the information age” with the transistor (1950)
-Evolutionary Singularity(4) proposed by Ray Kurzweil, who postulates that humanity will access a Singularity as a result of the exponential growth of information management (year 2045).
Evolutionary sections
Among successive evolutionary milestones we can distinguish the following six “Evolutionary Tranches”, with the duration indicated (in years):
Tranche 1: 10,000,000,000 (13,800,000,000 – 3,800,000,000 = 10,000,000,000)
Tranche 2: 3,250,000,000 (3,800,000,000 – 550,000,000 = 3,250,999,000)
Tranche 3: 523,000,000 (550,000,000 – 27,000,000 = 523,000,000)
Tranche 4: 26,780,000 (27,000,000 – 220,000 = 26,780,000)
Tranche 5: 219,905 (220,000 – 95(5) = 219,909)
Section 6: 95 (95 – 0 = 95)
The ratio between consecutive evolutionary sections gives rise to what we will call “relative evolutionary speed between sections” (RES), resulting in the following five relative evolutionary speeds.
RES 1 = 3.076923 ((10,000,000,000 / 3,250,000,000) = 3.076923 )
RES 2 = 6.214149 ((3,250,000,000 / 523,000,000) = 6.214149 )
RES 3 = 19.529499 ((523,000,000 / 26,780,000) = 19.529499 )
RES 4 = 121.779859 ((26,780,000 / 219,905) = 121.779859 )
RES 5 = 2,314.789474 ((219,905 / 95) = 2,314.789474 )
The logarithms of the relative velocities are as follows
Log(RES1) = 0.488117
Log(RES2) = 0.793382
Log(RES3) = 1.290691
Log(RES4) = 2.085575
Log(RES5) = 3.364511
The ratio (Ri) between successive logarithms is the following:
R1 = 1.625394
R2 = 1.626822
R3 = 1.615859
R4 = 1.613229
The above values differ from the Golden Number (1.618034), a number also called the golden number, the number of God, the extreme and average ratio, the golden ratio, the golden mean, the golden ratio and the divine ratio, by 0.45%; 0.54%; 0.13% and 0.30%, respectively. In turn, the average of the sum of the ratios is 1.620326. This value differs from the golden ratio by 0.14%.
The results obtained allow us to postulate that Evolution follows a pattern that is a function of Information and the golden ratio.
(1)The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the putative common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya, originated. The complexity that LUCA is assumed to have does not give rise to affirming that it arose by “spontaneous generation”, it being valid to postulate the pre-existence of “seeds of life” prior to the emergence of LUCA; It is postulated that the origin of the “seeds of life” dates back to the moment when Matter arose in the Universe, that is, around thirteen thousand eight hundred million years.
(2)“We find that the anatomical potential to produce and perceive sounds differentiated by their formants began at the latest by the time of our last common ancestor with Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) about 27 Ma ago.” Which way to the dawn of speech?: Reanalyzing half a century of debates and data in light of speech (Science magazine)
(3) The last change in the position of the hyoid bone in humans, which would have allowed access to the language that characterizes us, took place approximately two hundred and twenty thousand years ago, and its data is based on archaeological evidence and anthropological studies. There is no scientific source that records this change on an exact date.
(4)Due to the exponential growth of information technologies, Ray Kurzweil postulates that a Technological Singularity will occur in the year 2045, at which time technological growth will be so rapid and so profound that it will be impossible to predict what its consequences will be.
(5) It is the time between 1950 and 2045, the latter year in which Ray Kurzweil postulates that a Singularity will take place.