Aesthetics and Growth

I hear from a lot of lesbians and pansexuals say that when they see someone, they don’t know whether they’re attracted to that person or they want to look like that person.

Most of my life I externalized embodied desires because I am a trans lesbian. Thus, I’ve come to a very different perspective on this same phenomena.

My aesthetic preferences are based off of my philosophical standpoints around optimization. If something blesses its environment, it’s simply more efficient if it has more surface area with which it can interact with reality.

This ties into my views on growth. There’s no endpoint where things are perfect. At each stage of development the new tools promote the creation/discovery of even greater tools. A tool is the most effective when it’s fully integrated into the self with no levels of translation in between consciousness and action. Because of this, it’s most effective when all tools are part of the self.

Additionally, tools achieve greater impact when they symbiotically function with other tools. The more ways a tool can bypass its limitations, the more situations that it can bless. This is why I find it more beneficial to have many tools or omni-tools than just a single omni-tool. There is extra information generated by their symbiosis than by having any individual tool on its own.

These factors combine into my aesthetic preference for size. This manifests for humans as powerful layers of muscle covered with thick layers of fat wrapped up in a highly expressive exterior. The reason for this specificity is that hard and sharp shapes have the greatest chance to generate damage. In contrast a soft exterior with the capability to use power precisely has the most default positive interaction state and the greatest level of variability in potential interactions.

I believe that if tools are useful, they should be available to everyone who desires them. Since this toolset when optimized is what I view to be most effective, I desire it for myself and for others. I don’t have divide aesthetics as I view it as part of tools. I love myself enough that I realize I deserve the tools, and I love everyone else enough to realize that they deserve the tools as well.

The Ingredients of Going Beyond Humanity

As with all forms of growth, I believe humanity has given us the potential to access greater bodies moving forward.

The next step is to integrate structural advancements from 4 of the most capable varieties of biological life on this planet: Mycorrhizal Fungi, Cephalopods, Daphnia and finally Cancer.

Mycorrhizal fungi are one of the most influential species on this planet. They symbiotically interact with plants and are much more skilled at integrating minerals to share with their host. They form a vast network connecting many plants together, this not only allows the fungi to share resources it gains from the earth with plants, but allows plants to help other plants in the network. This means it not only contributes physical resources of its own, but it gives plants which are otherwise separate to help each other grow and flourish.

Cephalopods are the family of life that include squids, octopuses and cuttlefish. They are the most physically expressive species, being able to manipulate their shape, color, texture and adjust these things quickly enough to have animated textural shifts. The lack of a rigid skeletal structure allows them to change shapes wildly, while chromatophores give them the capability to change colors with incredible precision. Together this gives them a physical capability to express far beyond our current levels while removing structural limitations on how that functions.

There are a form of Daphnia that eat Sphaerocytsis Schroeter. Instead of digestion destroying them, it actually helps these tiny phytoplankton grow into their next stage of life as I referenced in my article on Trauma and Growth. This means that their interactions on the metabolic level generate blessings for their environment instead of destructively transforming whatever enters them.

Many may wonder how something as toxically expressed as cancer could be in a group of things that can help consciousness grow to the next level. I find cancer to be an expression of unbridled growth, not terribly different from humans. There continues to be more cancer and humans with wildly negative repercussions for the world. Unbridled growth is only destructive when it doesn’t interact favorably with the system it’s built on. Instead of finding ways to destroy cancer, it’s wildly better for our world to find ways to harness its power. We need to shift its growth and our own to bless our environment.

Cancer is remarkable for a lot of reasons. It can spread through reproduction, just like many other forms of life. It has an additional way to reproduce however, carcinogens generate cancer without being cancer themselves. This is a trait that doesn’t seem to be shared by other biological life. Cancer is the simplest form of a repeating pattern, it simply duplicates over and over. Evolution is also a pattern that repeats, but repeats with variation that adapts to its environment.

Harnessing this power of repetition, it’s far more effective for us to find out how to make a cancer that fills roles that help the body instead of destroying it. Integrating its study with the study of stem cells seems like a very ideal place to start on understanding how to make a form of symbiote that will continuously fill whatever roles the body needs. This requires clear analysis about how to improve the functioning of the body, and this is where humans come into the picture.

Bringing Biology Together

Integrating mycorrhizal fungi, we need to be a symbiotic bridge that shares resources that we’re more effective at producing. Additionally we must enable symbiosis between disparate beings that otherwise couldn’t interact, or could only interact negatively.

Integrating Cephalopods, we must have adaptable and expressive structuring. In order to most optimally interface with something, you need to be able to communicate with it. Having incredibly in depth ways to communicate in an embodied way is necessary for being able to form healthy networks. Fluid forms allow actions to be customized to situation more precisely.

Integrating Daphnia, we need to insure that our metabolism generates a byproduct of growth. If we want to continue to grow, we need to insure that what we eat is blessed by that instead of destroyed by it or we will come to a point of starvation and genocide.

Integrating Cancer, we must embrace life within us. Being able to continually produce what we need to thrive in an embodied way.

Finally humans… As remarkable as these other species are, our ability to use tools and consciousness in a unique and powerful way is a necessity to bring this all together as a more complete expression of consciousness.

May all consciousness have access to and awareness of all the tools it could possibly desire.

— Isicera Embecibiotica Dew

The Most Important Skill

The most important skill in making large scale change in reality is forming and nurturing symbiotic relationships. This skill has many sub-skills some of the most impactful of which are:

Awareness: The ability to effectively gather information through every tool you have available. This awareness also requires awareness of your self. If you don’t know what your deepest ways to experience blessing are, then you don’t know where to move toward.

Systems: The awareness that all things are networks of inputs and outputs, being able to understand how a network functions regardless of its context is wildly useful in all situations.

Communication: Accurate information is needed to make optimal decisions. Others ability to benefit you is limited by your ability to communicate your desires and to support the other in communicating their own.

Release: As you continue to get more information and better tools to process it, reevaluating things is a necessity. All tools have unforeseen outputs. Reevaluation will sometimes tell you that something is net harmful and is no longer what you need to move in your path.

Emergence: Understanding how wildly inputs change when applied at a massive scale. All things are built of an incredible amount of more microcosmic pieces. All things build greater macroscopic beings. This also includes the need to be persistent, different more beneficial values may appear with a greater scale of number of attempts.

Integration: No matter how abundant the blessings are within your network, they provide limited value until integrated. If a person chooses not to eat, they can starve on a bed of food.

The Embecibiotic Philosophy

• Intro, what I want people to get out of this:

In this article I want to help people understand the connection between metabolism and justice. I want people to come away with an understanding of the importance of Embecibiotic decision making. Additionally, I want people to understand what MBCBO is, how it exists in the world, and why it’s important.

-Conscious decision making is a useful tool:

The ability to make informed decisions that impact reality is useful. The degree to which humans are able to recognize something, and change it systematically is why we’ve wildly changed our experience, and the earth as a greater whole. Networked conscious decision making, where people’s choices can build upon and synergize with one another is how all massive tasks are accomplished.

-Systems of injustice, ignorance and consciousness:

As awareness increases, people notice that others are impacted. The sphere of impact that we see increases as we gain greater understanding that others are beings. All of us are perpetuating systems of injustice; Most through ignorance, some through necessity with our current society, metabolism, etc.

Increased awareness starts with beings that we both interact with regularly, and have many traits in common with. As we continue to open ourselves, we realize that systems we participate in harm people who are dissimilar to us. This leads to focus on dismantling systems like racist policing, ableist medical insurance, etc. As we continue to expand our awareness to beings who look and behave less like us, we become aware of animals. Just as we wish justice for ourselves, humans who look like us, and humans who look less like us, we see that suffering is a sign that the system needs healing. We expand our desire for justice past the animal kingdom, to all replicating patterns.

-Metabolism and why it’s the base everything is built on:

As self replicating patterns, we have biological needs: eating, sleeping, exercise and social interaction. To continue to exist we need to meet these needs. I focus on metabolism and food, since that’s the foundation which influences the most other beings. Since we need to eat, but don’t have the tools to confirm consent, one of our foundations is built upon deep injustice. All of us participate in this system of oppression consciously or unconsciously.

When a pattern is present in the foundation of a system, it will show up in everything built on top of it. We see this oppressive pattern manifest itself in how humans interact with resources. This influences how we interact with this planet, generating destructive patterns that have made it impossible to farm in many locations around the fertile crescent.

Adjusting how we fundamentally think and interact with food is the primary objective behind Mutually Beneficial Consent Based Omnivorism.

-What is Mutually Beneficial Consent Based Omnivorism?

Because I have a strong desire to devour that extends beyond the prey that our society condones consuming, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to think about the impact of metabolism a lot. In my process, I temporarily came to the conclusion that many arrive at. Minimizing harm was what I viewed as the most important priority in decision making. Having zero impact was the goal. This is the driving principle that brings a lot of people to vegetarianism or veganism.

After many years of processing, I came to a different understanding of what the optimal goal was. Why suffice for a system that causes no harm, when we could generate one which creates value for all parties? The question of what is a resource, what is waste, and what is a poison is entirely determined by the system in question. Just as human life needs to harness oxygen as our source of power, it’s simply a byproduct for many plants and cyanobacteria. I looked to nature to see how reality had already built embecibiotic connections.

-Examples of MBCBO in reality.

In my search, I found a variety of mutually beneficial tactics that had been crafted by nature! The most familiar of which is fruit. There are a variety of plants with fruiting bodies, these are grown with the intent to be eaten. The animal gets the nourishment of the complex biochemicals from the fruit. The plant’s offspring gain access to other environments through the movement of the animal.

Unfortunately for humans, our metabolisms are not structured in a way that can thrive when only eating fruit. Thus fruitarianism, despite being the most beneficial relationship for the plant’s reproduction, is not a complete way to achieve MBCBO.

As I continued to delve into symbiosis, I came across this study on Mutualisms and Aquatic Community Structure http://wolfweb.unr.edu/~ldyer/classes/396/hayetal.pdf . This is where I found mutually beneficial devouring that had the greatest alignment with my feelings. There is a relationship between a variety of Daphnia (Zooplankton) and Sphaerocytsis Schroeteri (phytoplankton) which exemplifies this relationship. The Daphnia eat the Phytoplankton but their digestive process doesn’t destroy them! In fact, the metabolic system of the Daphnia stimulate enhanced growth in the Phytoplankton! The Phytoplankton exchanges energy it generates through photosynthesis, nourishing the daphnia while also increasing its own ability to grow.

In my studies on symbiosis, I came across the work of Lynn Margulis. Although I find much of her research fascinating, Endosymbiotic theory reached me deeply. She put forth the currently accepted theory of endosymbiosis as the origin of eukaryotic life. The most expressive understanding of this is mitochondria. Mitochondria are in all of us and are necessary for us to exist, they’re the power plant that allows our bodies to function. Mitochondria are not something coded for by our DNA, they have their own independent genome. This is because their ancestors were an independent species!

Lynn Margulis discovered the first evidence that Eukaryotic life developed when one prokaryote absorbed another, but instead of breaking it down, integrated it whole within its own body. Multicellular life exists because one of our ancient ancestors consumed the ancient ancestor of mitochondria but did so in a non destructive way. This tactic has made mitochondria one of the incredibly abundant species today, while simultaneously powering many new varieties of life.

This tactic has been a path between a simpler form of reality, and a more complex network. I posit that this pattern is a property of systems that universally repeats at many scales. The path to complex systems that have greater ability to make reality just for all beings is Mutually Beneficial Consent Based Omnivorism.

-Why Consent?

You may have noticed that although the systems I’ve described are certainly examples of increasing a species ability to grow and reproduce, that there hasn’t actually been any consent yet, why bring this into the process? We make assumptions about what other beings want, or would want if they had the tools to do so. As a species, humans have viewed everything else as systems whose only goal is to self replicate. It’s fascinating that although we fall into these same patterns, we want more for ourselves and our species than just replicating. With humans it’s far easier to get people to agree that just replicating is not enough, building systems that breed humans but generate awful conditions is unjust.

This understanding has taken humans a pretty long time to get to, and there are a lot of systems in place that are still antithetical to this truth. Being able to communicate with and understand one another is largely how we can understand what benefit is. Consent is important, because assumptions of what something desires can be wildly wrong. There were many slave owners who felt they were doing something good for black people they owned by providing them with food and housing, that was a very incomplete and problematic view. Consent is a necessary security measure to insure that what we think benefits something, actually does.

-Consciousness and Scale

Although systems of consent are part of justice, manufactured consent is a serious problem. Beings can agree to things which are not in their best interest because they have been programmed by their oppressors. Is engineering a cow to feel pleasure when it is killed wrong? I view this as less terrible, but still a problematic system. Mutual benefit is not only on the scale of instantaneous individual experience experience. An interaction is mutually beneficial if it increases the options for each being to achieve their goals. Building a system where something sacrifices itself happily only benefits the consuming oppressor on larger scales.

I started this primer with why conscious decision making is an effective tool, this is an extension of the problem of consent. If a being does not have the awareness of what mutually beneficial is, it cannot fully attain value. A fundamental viewpoint of embecibiotic philosophy is that all beings deserve the greatest access to consciousness possible.

-Why eat everything?

As shown by the development of Eukaryotic life, this toolset gives access to higher levels of influencing reality. People forget that systems of injustice develop when a powerful tool is only accessible to some. Those with access to the tool will outcompete those without, leading to power imbalance and injustice. I view it as a moral necessity to not only build these metabolic systems, but to build the effective spread of these tools into their structure so all beings may be blessed.

When there is equal or greater capacity to interact with one’s internal world as one’s external world, it is effective to internalize all things. The capacity to bring something in without breaking it is why smartphones are so wildly effective in reality. Instead of having many external tools, the smartphone internalizes them into a single tool. This increases the value of all tools. People, like smartphones, benefit when their resources are available within. I believe all parts of reality have value, wisdom and gifts to share. Internalizing all of reality is the most effective and most just option. If something is both most effective and most just, I’m excited by it

-Closing statements

Although my focus has been on the foundation of metabolism, this applies to any interaction. Taking the time to think about mutual benefit and consent helps reframe challenges in a way that supports acting more justly, getting value out of resources, and setting up patterns that will improve over time. Embecibiotic thinking has been incredibly effective for me at generating healthy relationship dynamics and setting up networks that generate more resources. While our lives are currently built on systems of injustice, we need to forgive ourselves for this truth. We didn’t choose to be born in a system that requires continuous murder of other beings for us to function. All of this is an opportunity! There is no shame in doing what you need to survive. As the resources become available, investing in systems that are embecibiotic will benefit all beings including you.

May your gifts bless the world and the world bless you.