I am aware the breadth of my ignorance is extensive. No, not just the ignorance of our entire species but mine goes beyond this because I don't even try to know anything beyond metaphysics and a few subjects that interest me. Indeed, knowledge, especially book knowledge can be an impediment to me. I appreciate all experiential knowledge and metaphysics. This makes my experiments and observations quite interesting to me.
One summer I battled houseflies in a common area in a public place where food was prepared and eaten and was dirty. I would periodically grab a flyswatter and murder every fly I saw. Several observations came from this but the most relevant one was that each time I killed a smaller percentage of all the flies that were buzzing about when I started. Some would head for the hills and some would land under tables and chairs. They were not only displaying individual intelligence, which was hardly surprising to me, but subsequent generations had increasing percentages that lived under the furniture except to come out and feed.
I've seen these same things in other "species". Mosquitos can practically smell my mosquito sump since large percentages of entire generations have been eradicated in them. I could probably make a million with a simple patent on it. You just need to dump the few day old larvae on the ground.
We see insects as unconscious drones much as Darwin did despite the fact we can even interpret Bee Language now. I find it obvious insects are intelligent (smarter than some people I know), but we downplay any intelligence that can't manipulate abstractions. If a chimp can't elaborate on "I think therefore I am" then the lack of appropriate response is interpreted to mean chimps can't think. This isn't far wrong but it's highly misleading in a world where we've deluded ourselves into believing there's such a thing as "intelligence" and by God we got it!
All experiment including my own suggest that life is consciousness and that it's consciousness which determines survival. Consciousness is natures way not only to ensure individual survival but through the capriciousness of nature leads to change in species which occurs suddenly like all other known change in life on the individual and "species" level. Science doesn't take years to change its mind but rather bides its time until some famous scientific foot dragger shuffles off the mortal coil. This is life. Sudden change defines life and consciousness. Just as a summer intern could prove linear funiculars he might also invent upside down flies. It never takes long for the world to be stood on its ear.
We are all ignorant of things. It isn't your ignorance that is the issue. It is that you don't speak with any thought to what you don't know and you state things as fact without support.
There is no indication that the behavior of flies is expressing the action of intelligence. Which, by the by, you claim doesn't exist anyway. The evidence supports that flies respond to stimuli and are not thinking and understanding with the intelligence of even a friendly hound or a rabbit in your yard. What you have is an unfounded assumption of intelligence that does not hold up.
You claim to have followed this fly population for generations and recorded percentages based on some unspoken criteria. What criteria? How did you determine species? How did you determine generation time? What was the influence of migration and the introgression of genes from foreign populations of the same species? How did you account for the variables you didn't control? Temperature? Time of day? Geography? Time of year or season? Resource availability? The genetic evidence that would support that a change in genome occurred? Anything on this?
It sounds like you drew some spurious conclusions based on what you wanted and not on anything you observed and recorded.
I have watched dragonflies lay eggs on the hood or roof of car, because they are stimulated by the reflected light and color in the same way they would be to reflection on a body of water. I have read about masses of aquatic beetles that drop from the sky onto parking lots for the same reason. The reflection stimulates a response.
If all experiment shows that life is conscious, then you should be publishing and have body of literature and observations to show this. As well as a well-defined definition of consciousness that fits beyond flies. I haven't seen you produce anything like that. It just seems you have a feeling and have elevated it all the way up to a fact without the bother of that pesky little thing called study, literature review or experiment with a much better design.
There is no evidence that consciousness is driving species change. There is no evidence that consciousness was involved in your so called "experiment". Other than your own and it is drawing conclusions that are wildly biased in my opinion. There is no evidence that speciation is sudden. The evidence says gradual. Even that punctuated equilibrium that you have heard about doesn't posit sudden change. The change was over a long period of time with a much longer period of stasis.
Your idea of sudden change has been routinely falsified. I'm sorry, but that is the way it is.
I don't see any reason to consider that you did much to the local fly population other than kill a portion of it. As to your thoughts on Egyptology and pyramids, I'm not really all that interested. Except to say alleged success at one minor claim does not promote a knowledge of all things in one individual or a group of them.
This is just more of your revealed truth and I have no reason to consider it. I don't really think there is much we can discuss, since you refuse to provide anything to support your claims except more claims and nebulous rambling. I've done my bit, but I'm tired and what interest I've had I've lost for reaching for the impossible dream.
