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The evolution of a living creature

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To call the existance of a living creature an evolution might not seem appropriate. But when it is considered that the time, from when a living creature starts to grow until it dies, is a constant time of changes then it has many similarities with e.g. the cosmic evolution. The big difference would be that the changes which happen during the cosmic evolution are many at a much broader range which might never end while the evolution of a living creature can be separated in two big stages and it will end after the second one.
The first stage is always the building of the body of the creature and the second is the function of this body (living) in an environment which might more or less change from moment to moment. Each step has its specific characteristic.

The creation of a living body

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The creation of a living body is basically an action of repetition. Since an evolution cannot happen unless every action/circumstance/reaction [ACR] is remembered all the ACRs, which were happening while this creature was evolving, have been memorized. In blocks called 'genes'. Which can be build from one ACR or many ACRs which enables the genes to provide the right 'blueprint' for the body in question.
Since a natural evolution does not have the tools to 'know' which ACR is unnecessary for the building of the last developed creature no stored ACR is erased. It might always be used for another version of the creature or even for another creature. That this system is used can be figured out by the way the building instructions, the genes, are arranged - in a simple sequencial way (Chromosomes). This enables specialized molecules (carriers of the action) to pass along the genes and select from them the right instructions (build up an action) in the right order which are needed to build the latest version of this specimen.
The most important character of this stage is that everything needed for the proper function of the body itself is provided. This includes the parts of the body which are provided but are not fully physical or mentally functional yet. With other words the body is now an entity on its own and does not need any help from outside to live. Just the right circumstances which need to be satisfied by the environment.

The Live-Test of the finished body

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But what the first stage cannot know is into what kind of environment this body will be born. Therefore certain functionalities can only be provided physically but cannot be prepared for what they will actually do. One sample for this is the speech of a human. He will have a mouth to create sounds and ears to hear the sounds which his mouth can make. But what kind of sounds will be needed/used in the environment, into which the human is born, cannot be predicted. She will also have some limbs which have the ablity to perform specific movements but what movements this limbs will perform together cannot be predicted. And she will have a pair of eyes to 'see' her environment, but what will she see?
When a creature is ready to function in an environment then it needs to start a process which adapts its body to this environment. Depending on the circumstances, which are usually simmilar for certain levels of creatures, this process can last for just a few seconds to years.
This process is basically a learning process and done in a play like fashion. Its task is e.g. to coordinate the movements of the limbs to the body when the body needs to be moved. Or to coordinate the movements of the limbs to the picture of the environment, presented trough the eyes, to move something within the environment.
But this kind of tasks cannot be learned right away. There are other preliminary tasks which need to be learned before the main tasks can be accomplished. E.g. the eyes need to learn to 'see' first. Muscles need to be exercised to gain the necessary strenght and agility. And while this is being done the progress has to be recorded to enable the refinements necessary.
For this the first stage equips the body with senses and a brain. The senses can be separated into the senses needed to assure the proper function of the body (unconsious) and the one which are always 'noticable' (concious). The senses are the abilities to measure bodily functions, to translates this measurments into electrical or chemical pulses (information). This information is then send through the nervous system to a central place where they can be stored, called up and used as needed. This place is the brain.
The brain needs to be able to mark and store sequences of elements of maybe electrical or chemical types. This sequences can then be recalled to be compared, changed or used to form another sequence of the same elements or to be assimilated with another type of elements. E.g elements which are provided by other senses. But this sequences of elements cannot be provided for certain tasks, which the body needs to evolve, by the first stage of the evolution of the body. Therefore for this tasks the brain has no 'information' ready when the body starts to live in the environment into which it was born. Every part of this tasks: physical, functional and controls need to be evolved (established and learned) first. An evolution which lasts for the whole duration of the life of the body.
The way the brain accomplishes all the tasks is by separating the information it gets and stores into the concious and the unconcious information. The concious informations are the ones it gets moment by moment trough the 'noticeable' senses which includes also a picture of the environment in which the body is in.