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The Ancient Bargain

By Hakim Ibn Adam

The Ancient Bargain

By Hakim Ibn Adam

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Two billion years ago, life struck a violent, accidental bargain. Today, that bargain finally speaks.Set within the microscopic theater of a single eukaryotic cell, The Ancient Bargain is a "philosophical closet drama"-a play written for the stage of the mind. As the cell's internal environment reaches a breaking point-ATP levels plummeting and calcium rising toward a lethal threshold-two primordial intelligences emerge from the chemical noise to confront one another.A Dialogue of OppositesThe drama unfolds through a dialectic between two distinct voices that have shared a membrane for eons but have never truly spoken:The Ribosome: The digital "RNA Cathedral," a weaver of sequences and the guardian of the genetic code. It views life as a series of discrete, countable events and information as the ultimate priority.The Mitochondrion: The restless, analog captive whose proton gradients provide the fire of existence. It views life as a continuous flow, an unbroken river of energy that precedes and sustains the digital Archive.
At the Intersection of Science and SpiritDrawing on the molecular realities of endosymbiosis and the mystical metaphysics of Ibn Arabi, Hakim Ibn Adam explores the "wound" of our evolutionary origins. Their conversation traverses the most profound questions of existence:Identity: Is a being a collection of parts (the Ship of Theseus) or a continuous process of "shipping"? Lineage: The "Maternal Thread" of mitochondrial inheritance vs. the "Universal Web" of the genetic code.Meaning: Whether life is a mechanical accident or the "Breath of the Merciful"-a cosmos exhaled into being and renewed at every instant.
For the Discerning ReaderThe Ancient Bargain is a meditation on cooperation born from capture and the "productive tension" that defines complex life. It is essential reading for those interested in the philosophy of biology, process monism, and the hidden metaphors encoded in our very cells.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
68
Release Date:
2025-12-04
Publication Date:
2026-01-05
Publisher:
three roses publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1069898325
ISBN13:
9781069898326
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
85 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
4 cm
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