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What is special about the clown fish? This species has a symbiotic coexistence with the sea anemone. The relationship is maintained through a physical manifestation of mucous around the clown fishes' scaly exterior when the fish contacts the sea anemone. This contact is an exchange of poison, that in effect stings prey into a state of paralysis, but is mild to the clown fish. This negotiation affords both seemingly different manifestations of life a high-degree of protection. The clown fish ward off creatures that prey of sea anemone, as is the sea-anemone a concealer to the clown fish. This behavior is in my opinion well illustrated in the Pixar movie: Nemo.

All this is just a precursor to the interesting world of fish, which was interesting indeed to observe during our visit to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA. Though I witnessed a staged environment, one undeniably floating on the surface-notion of captivity, it was nonetheless fascinating to experience. The most fascinating to me was the way in which fish must have evolved. Evolution is a hugely metaphysical. To me, evolution is thought manifested into physical being. How much so is this proverbial broth simmered over time? Likewise is thought self-resurrecting, self-reflecting, and self-restructuring. This line of thinking becomes philosophical when it is internalized into how humanity has evolved, how humans used to think, how we think now, what are our physical outward manefestations, how we make exchanges with ourselves, and with the environment, and ultimately where ethics and reverence of good-[many shades of gray]-evil come into play.

That's a mouthful.

This could easily be a head-full too. But this type of thinking is important, and I think people should do more of it. I suppose though, one only pursues thinking that is of interest to the thinker, so it is not too surprising that there are as many different types of people as their are interests, and similarly different kinds of fish as their are ways to evolve. How irrelevant these statements resolve; all the manifested artifacts of evolution thus far is quite simply equivalent to all that isz as we observe it to be. I reflect on a friend's former rhetoric: "Tell me what you don't already know."

A fish's life might be subject to the same rules... swim, swim, swim, eat, swim some more, oops, I just got eaten. From where then do mechanics of life metaphysically enforce, "Oops, I just got eaten" to, "Oh, I just died, now my comrades need to evolve so they are less likely to be eaten"? Perhaps, this machinery is thought. We observe and partake in the process. Are any gears turning yet (bad pun, sorry)?

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