Biotic interface 2
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Biotic interface 2

The question is is penicillin really no longer useful? Only if there was only one form of the "magic bullet". But the mould organism may need contact with the infection in question before some specificity of penicillin can be mutated. If this were possible, then it isn't the antiseptic or the antibiotic that is the tool, but the chemistry, the organic, mind you, chemistry, that is the equipment and has always been. This has been the key to the health of an organism in an infectious environment of competing organisms: chemical defense.

In the dialogue of biotics, the organic intelligence of the microorganism and the producto-organisms such as plants, are introduced to a contact dialogue in the laboratory with the types of organism that present problems or threats to the human organism. The producto-organisms such as the mould then adapt to produce the appropriate chemical defense that meets the threat in the human organism.

Then there is the vast territory beyond the postulated interface, such as the concept of biotic protocol: Which modes of existence of multiorganisms like human beings are conducive to co-existence, which modes invite disease and so on.  Many cases might lead one to such conclusions, like the re-emergence of Lime's disease, once a problem in Medieval Europe.  It re-emerges in Lyme, Connecticut, in the late 20th century.  This suggests that both America and Europe had lapsed for the better part of a millennium into a positive aspect of the biotic protocol.  The Lime's scenario may further suggest that here, instead of being a largely fatal illness, the disease weakens random victims in a population to render them vulnerable to top carnivores such as the cougar, soon to spread from the Midwest to the New England area.  

By the way, there is a possibility for man to actually learn to compute in microbiology, it's hard for any one of us to switch out of our verbal dependant mode.  Verbal interface is historic in that the lexicon emerges from collective human experience.  Unique to a species.  Yet all life has remarkably much in common.  You'll notice we all have a yearning for inter species contact.  I have observed that's in one way because as humans, seemingly, our ecological niche seems to gravitate to the role of universal stewardship, displaced by malfunction in human society, things like urbanity and domesticity.  More and more, it seems to be coming down to the simple reality of "do it right or die".

It's like pushing the no-man-is-an-island concept a step further along.  Everyone is a part of a larger kindred; a part of the biological whole.  But more than that, it seems, it was supposed to be our job to take care of everybody else.  -- That the reason why the biotic potential is so low is because we aren't doing our jobs.  It appears as though the buck stops with us, as the saying goes.  If you get the buck-knife, you have to deal.  And cheaters can get killed.

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