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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bioluminecence

I was reading this article http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100506-bioluminescence-sea-life-embed-video/ when I got into thinking about the reason for bioluminescence.




My hypothesis is that any living things must have a sense of self, and in the murky depth of the sea, being able to see oneself is a huge help to contributing constructing this sense of self.




Of course, there is the somewhat conflicting observation that most dark dwellers are somewhat blind. This could be explained in that once the sense of self is formed by the young, the sense of sight becomes less important, thence it degenerated.

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