Your Body Is a Colony of CiEs: What Siphonophores and Human Neurons Reveal About Conscious Life
In my book Planet of CiEs I wrote that your body is not a single being. It is a gathering of millions of Conscious Intergalactic Entities. Some of these CiEs take the role of bones. Some become blood. Some become your eyes. Some become your legs. They arrange themselves around the real You who is also a CiE. You are the central galactic star and the others gather around you through the pull of Kravitational force. They assemble around your intention to live a human life because your own combinatorial living choices made this incarnation possible. This is the CiER X framework. A beautiful and almost perfect biological example of this principle is found in siphonophores. These elegant marine beings drift silently in the deep ocean and some of them can reach lengths of forty metres. At first they look like one enormous organism, but each siphonophore is actually a colony of many individual living units. Every unit is a separate being with its own life. When they come together they coordinate their functions with astonishing harmony. Some specialise in movement, so they behave like legs. Some act like hands and catch prey. Some digest food. Some provide protection. To an observer the entire colony looks like a single creature, yet every unit continues to live even when separated from the rest. This is exactly what I mean when I say the body is a temporary collective of CiEs. You see one human being, but underneath that appearance many CiEs are working together for a shared period of time. When the cooperation ends each CiE goes on with its own journey. Modern neuroscience gives us another powerful clue. After a person dies, many brain cells keep working for a short time. If you place these neurons in a petri dish and give them nutrients they continue performing their original roles. They behave as if the body never ended. This is not just poetic language. It is scientifically observed. A striking example was reported by the BBC. Researchers grew clusters of human neurons in a dish and connected them to a simple digital world. These neurons began to organise their firing patterns and learned to play a basic version of Pong. They responded to feedback, adapted their behaviour and improved their performance. This proves that even outside the human body, brain cells can continue their structured and meaningful activity when the right environment is provided. This supports the same insight. Brain cells do not suddenly forget what they are. They continue to act according to their nature. The identity of the dependent CiEs does not vanish when they leave the body. They carry their learned habits for a while, just as siphonophore units continue to act like parts of a body even after separation. Siphonophores, human neurons and the CiER X framework all point to the same truth. Life is not a single entity pretending to be many. It is many entities cooperating to appear as one. A human body is a temporary gathering around a central CiE. That central CiE brings intention. The dependent CiEs bring their skills. Together they create the appearance of a person. When the life journey ends their partnership dissolves and each CiE continues its own path. The ocean, the laboratory and the wisdom of the ancients all whisper the same message. What we call an individual is a magnificent collaboration. What we call a body is a moment in a much longer story. And what we call life is the meeting of many travellers in a shared field of experience. -
Madhava Turumella
Author