Re; Thims, Libb. (2008). “Philosophy: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?” (2 pgs), Helium.com, December 15, 2008.. "Which came first the chicken or the egg? ( Lets go back farther!) WHICH CAME FIRST, MOTION OR GROWTH, OR BETTER, ENERGY OR MASS? by Ted Erikson Time does not really exist for light (electromagnetism can be "everywhere" at once in our world). But light cannot validate itself without creating, that iis "sparking" mass to gain a surface from which to reflect, absorb, diffract, refract, etc. Any particle of mass will do but mass itself needs time to validate its existence. So let us place panpsychism in perspective by stating that such that an awareness, or consciousness, exists for any particle of mass. It "recognizes" that it must be of a greater size, i.e. larger, bigger, or more complex to gain more time of "life". This idea was introduced by Kleiber (1) which has been verified in allometric biological studies. That is, life spans increase as size for many species that vary from bacteria to whales (24). Extrapolating this verifiable information down to the size of the ubiquitous charge carrying electron suggest it's "lifetimes" might be of orders less than attoseconds (impossible to measure). It certainly is extremely small since it can appear and reappear about an atomic nucleus. Quantum probabilities are required to localize regions where it may be found. Thus, ight controls motion and mass controls evolutional growth. But light "needs" mass and mass "needs" time. This is the real philosophical question of which came first. Panpsychism, an ancient idea of consciousness in ALL things is a most sensible answer. REFERENCES (1) "Kleiber's Law" http://www.search.com/reference/Kleiber's_law (2) "The consequence of Size" http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ImLqCzhajywJ:labspace.open.ac.uk/file.php/3619/ S324_4_bk3_ch3.pdf+%22bacteria+to+whales%22+Kleiber&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=u s (3) "Live Fast, die young" http://www.uaf.edu/news/a_news/20060908161137.html (4) "Size, life history and ecolgy in mammals"
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