I Can Only Know What Life Is, Given That I Know What Life Cannot Be.

[Victoria "Stokastika"]

I stated this comment to Dr. Nagy, and we both sat for a moment, in
profound silence. Oh, shxt. As if such a simple statement opened a
massive set of windows and doors in both of our brains. What does it
all mean?

Sometimes you say something and it takes you years to figure out and
understand what in the hxll you exactly meant by what you said.
Question Reality. Freedom is a broken watch!

Hence, now I am a "pseudoscientist," or a "practical science
fictionist."
Since we are stuck with one planet Earth and one history of Life on
Earth,
we could technically model Replicate Earths through creative Thought
Experiments.

Size-shape-function triangle.
ALLOMETRY: SHAPE-SHIFTING WITH INCREASE IN SIZE.
ISOMETRY / GEOMETRIC SIMILARITY: MAINTAINING SHAPE/PROPORTIONS WITH
INCREASE IN SIZE.
Isometry is what you predict if an organism maintains its constant
proportions with an increase in size. Essentially Photographic
Enlargement and Reduction (which occurs).
Allometry is what you predict if an organism changes in shape
(proportions) with increase in size.
Essentially, you would have to put the organism into Allometric
Photoshop for it to exist in Biological Reality.

How come there are no vertebrate parasites (like the Alien)? Brood
Parasites don't count.
How come we don't have giant spiders?
How come we don't have giant mice (without any shape-shifting)?
How come viruses and bacteria can evolve within my lifetime, but I
can't evolve mutationally within my life time?
(Only behavioral mutationally, eh?)

HALLOWEEN PARTY: The Amoeba, the Plant, the Ant, the Mushroom, the
Fish, the Bird, the Mouse, and the Elephant.

Abstract: Eight Organisms Hold a Secret Halloween Party and They Want
to Play a Biological Swapping Game. For example, the mouse wants to
become an elephant, an elephant wants to become a fish, a fish wants
to become an amoeba, an amoeba wants to become a plant, and a plant
wants to become a mushroom or an ant, etcetera. In order for each
organism to morph and shape-shift into another organism (Just For
Halloween), they all have to work together to Create the Photoshop
Morph Machine or the Photoshop Shapeshift Machine (giant
multifactorial biological wardrobe), and design the rules and
parameters of how each organism become any sort of other organism.
After they Build the PMM or PSM, they each have to enter the machine
and go through systematic biological (and ecological/evolutionary)
transformations. Every organism has the ability to enjoy its new
ephemeral alternate existence, and right when the underground party
was really going to go wild, two humans busted the Biological Rave
(Terra and Buz, of course) and the secret to Creative Multi-factorial
Scaling of Organisms was Released to Society, all because of some
silly Halloween Party.

STEP 1. How to Transform a Mouse Into an Elephant (probably the easier
of transitions)

Account for Surface Area / Volume / Kinetic Energy, Motion / Fluid
Flow / Exchange Rates.

Molecular Level: Mass Produce a Bunch of Cells (to what power?), and
Place Less Mitochondria Per Cell (especially in the muscle tissue,
muscle is the primary consumer of energy, the viscera work hard to
produce and distribute the energy), any shifts in hierarchal control
of metabolism (environmental or genetic control in terms of a sensor
of demand and supply of ATP). What's with the VO2 Max? Genetic or
environmental regulation of metabolic supply, demand, processing at
the cellular, biochemical level?

Tissue Level: Increase number of cells? Serial Repetition? aka Mass
Production? aka Segmentation?

Organ / Organ System Level: Adjustments in Multiple form of Organ
Systems: (1) Skeletal System (structure, locomotion) (2) Muscular
System (locomotion) (3) Nervous System (sensory-integrative,
locomotion, autonomic, sympathetic) (4) Circulatory System (exchange,
distribution) (5) Respiratory System (derivation of Oxygen, etcetera)
(6) Digestive System (food transport, reduction, detoxification.
removal of waste) (7) Excretory System (removal of waste) (8)
Lymphatic Immune System (police for disease, reparation) (9)
Reproduction System (so your genetically-related kids can continue to
exist while your biological-machine-not-built-to-last expires).
So, there would need to be major adjustments of organ structure and
function, bone structure would have to have more cross-sectional area,
more support on the joints, larger cross-sectional area musculature to
move itself around, nervous system and circulatory system would scale
out at what SAV?, adjustments in digestion and excretion, due to diet
content and volume, lymphatic? reproduction? DO MICE HAVE LARGER
LITTERS THAN ELEPHANTS? Energetic constraints in having large babies.
Quantity versus Quality. Quality requires more BRAIN POWER and CHILD-
REARING DEPENDENCE behavior. As if larger organisms require larger
brains to engage on care for the young.

Exterior Morphological Level: The mouse would need a Trunk, lose the
Whiskers, get Very Big Ears (as a trick for efficient heat loss),
transform its overall shape from a little cuddly fuzz ball
(conservation of heat) to expanded surface area and leaner shape for
expanded heat loss,

Whole Organism Level / Behavioral Level : Adjustment of Metabolism of
the Mouse such that when it becomes an elephant, it won't overheat.
Physics won't allow the mouse to do things it could do once it becomes
an elephant. E.g. more conservative in daring superhuman acrobatic
tricks because kinetics would ultimately lead to a fatal injury at the
scale of an elephant, not necessarily the scale of a mouse. A mouse
and and elephant's sense of space and time shifts, perceptual changes.
Mice and elephants are born, grow, live, reproduce, and die, but due
to their sizes, do exactly the same ritual at very different time
scales. Mice last two human years. Elephants last 30 maybe. I am
making these numbers up. Given the number of sample trials of
reproduction, you would expect smaller organisms to evolve faster due
to the speed of life span and reproduction processes. More trials and
more numbers lead to an increased number of opportunities to make
mistakes, and the likelihood that a mistake ends up being good...
Natural selection! Won the lottery! Geologically speaking, the
likelihood for a fragment of an elephant to preserve in the fossil
record is perhaps equal to a mouse. Mice exist in larger numbers.
Elephants are just large in size. Given physical and chemical
conditions of Natural "Taphonomic" Burial Grounds.

Environmental Level: Make sure the Environment has enough of an
"ecological refrigerator" food baseline that would have the capacity
to sustain a large size. Unique circumstance of "ecological make-up"
of an ecosystem that would provide an advantage to large size? Make
sure the mouse has more space to exist and roam around than a tiny
little mouse cage with a water feeder and a spinning wheel.

MALT PROFILE / OUT OF THE BOX AND INTO THE WORM
(1) Morphology (2) Adaptive Zone (3) Life Cycle / Ontogeny (4)
Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Classification, Taphonomy

Why do certain organisms scale out in size and other organisms do not?
Say, post mass extinction.
Scaling out requires the alignment and synergism of multiple variables
of the organism and multiple variables of the environment that would
allow the organism to become larger from its pre-existing ancestors.
(For example, what if a rodent could become a huge elephant-like
creature, but there are genetic restrictions in morphing of the
digestive tract, or adding more calcium to bones?) The organism is
internally constrained by it's own genetic-environment make-up. What
if there are not enough resources of the environment for the organism
to scale out? T rex would not have gotten big if its ancestors were
just a lizard in a resource-deprived desert. The organism is
externally constrained by not having a baseline resource to foster and
sustain large biomass creatures.

Seems like small ancestors to larger derivatives scale allometrically
and large ancestors to smaller derivates scale down geometrically.

Does size determine speciation rates, to some degree?

But how long does it take for a small organism to increase to a large
organism? What about T rex?
How long does it take for a large ancestor reduce in size to a smaller
organism? What about cats or hawks?
How long does it take to manufacture a single cell? What is the
comparative development lifespans of organisms?
What are all these BIOLOGICAL MANUFACTURING RATES at different scales?

Check out the u-toronto website. Google "allometry" (isometry versus
allometry).

[Victoria "Stokastika"]

Based on this essay, there would have to be an elaboration of the MALT
PROFILE. Form and Function.
From cellular to whole organism scale. As well as accounting for the
development of different body systems:

Organ / Organ System Level: Adjustments in Multiple form of Organ
Systems: (1) Skeletal System (structure, locomotion) (2) Muscular
System (locomotion) (3) Nervous System (sensory-integrative,
locomotion, autonomic, sympathetic) (4) Circulatory System (exchange,
distribution) (5) Respiratory System (derivation of Oxygen, etcetera)
(6) Digestive System (food transport, reduction, detoxification.
removal of waste) (7) Excretory System (removal of waste) (8)
Lymphatic Immune System (police for disease, reparation) (9)
Reproduction System (so your genetically-related kids can continue to
exist while your biological-machine-not-built-to-last expires).

How do these systems shift across the phylogeny of organisms?