Modern Biological Theory and Experiments on Celibacy: Brahmacharya under Microscope by Jatin Shankar

Author:Jatin Shankar [Shankar, Jatin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Slateword Publishing House
Published: 2016-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Graph 4: Population survival pattern in an aging and non-aging population

So the question is who, between B and C, has the best life strategy and is most likely to get natural selection during evolution?

The answer is clearly C. C’s strategy is the best, since it has the mathematical benefit of committing calculated suicide. Compromising the process of repair and maintenance of the body is an act of committing suicide. Since the organism would die of causes beyond aging all the same, the natural selection of the trait favoring suicidal tendency seems obvious, because self triggered compromise in repair and maintenance of the body comes with increased reproductive success. In other words, every time an old man dies out of diabetes roughly at the same age at which he would have otherwise died trying to climb a tree in a hypothetical situation of zero aging, his life must be considered a more successful one, since having allowed himself to get old, the old man bought some reproductive success without compromising his overall life expectancy!

Hence according to our theory, a finely tuned rate of aging aimed to kill the organism at some specie specific age is a better life strategy than to not to age at all, as far as reproductive success is concerned. Moreover, this specie specific age is nothing but roughly the life expectancy of the same species in zero aging conditions. In other words, even if the organism does not ages, he will have a life expectancy attached to his living conditions, depending upon the risk of predation, injuries, calamity etc. Hence if the organism fine tunes his bodily aging to match this life expectancy, it will suffer minimal loss in its lifespan while at the same time gaining evolutionary benefit through enhanced reproductive success.

This is the same as if you were given, let us say, 1 million dollar, with the condition that any amount of cash that you do not spend within a week will be confiscated. Hence although normally you would not ‘kill’ so much cash in so little time, now you are prompted to make the best of the situation in the given time. So what should you do? You keep the cash as long as possible with yourself, while ‘finely tuning’ the expenditure to match the ‘deadline’. You spend 1 million dollars in a week! You kill the money slowly, with ‘age’, in order to ‘buy’ ‘something’ which can outlive the barrier of 1 week imposed on the cash. You are making the cash live longer by spending it!

Do you see the analogy?

So, this thought experiment suggests that if there exist two organisms, one like B, who has reproduction, but not at the cost of harming its own youth by neglecting other life processes; and the other like C, the one which scrapes his body’s survival necessities selflessly just for the sake of higher sexual success, then the evolution will choose C over B, B’s reproductive moderation becoming its weakness. Do you see why I called reproduction as not being a fancy activity in the Introduction? There is too much at stake.

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