For those who haven’t watched the Netflix series ‘Dark’ I highly encourage you to do so. This is the most fascinating television series made so far. It has just has three seasons, but makes you think for a long long time after you have finished watching it.
I will not give out spoilers but I have a theory which I would like to put.
Dark, right from season 1 talks about loops. Talking about loops, we always ask this question, “What came first, the chicken or the egg ?”.
There is no clear answer for but one thing is clear, it is a loop. The series ‘Dark’ keeps asking this question again and again, ‘what came first ?’
The same thing exists for life itself.
While we can answer most of what we understand from Darwin’s theory of evolution, one thing we cannot answer is, “what made the first living cell from which everything evolved ?”
The answer is an infinite loop. Life and the universe that we know exists in an infinite loop.
Only thing, it is perhaps not infinite but it is pretty darn long. With every motion through the loop, there is an error which creeps in. This error in biological terms refers to ‘mutation’.
So every life that is ‘born’ then dies, but every time he , she or it is born, it also transmits life to the next generation with a change in the genetic code allowing a new loop to begin.
The new loop , the new life could exist in parallel and continue to exist when the original loop of the parent dies. At some point the mutation starts showing its colors, but no one lives long enough to see the change happen.
We only know that it does happen and some point it will lead to the breaking of the infinite loop.
Perhaps with our evolution into a human being has brought us close to the end of breaking the infinite loops.
Perhaps it is humans who will break the life and death cycle by either making us immortal or killing us all.
I know this is all philosophical rambling, but it is difficult to explain a breakthrough thought that I am having in just a few words on a social media page.
It perhaps needs a book. Perhaps this is a seed of a book. A beginning of a new loop.
In summary, watch the show and then we will discuss more.
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