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THE ONE HUMAN PROBLEM, ITS SOLUTION, AND ITS RELATION TO UFO PHENOMENA
Thomas E. Bearden
The evolution of a life-bearing planet may be divided into stages, the first
five of which are: (1) The formation of the planet itself and some billions of years of
cooling, so that a primor:dial atmosphere and ocean are gradually evolved;- (2) The
fomenting of amino acid structures in the violent convulsions of the primeval sea
and planet; (3) The formation of the self-replicating supennolecules, DNA and
RNA; (4) The formation of one-culled organisms; (5) The formation of multicellular
organisms. At the upper end of the fifth stage of evolution, the intelligent mobil13s
emerge, as do eventually tool-using intelligent mobiles. This is the level on which
man finds himself on the planet Earth.
What are actually evolving are competing control systems, and their natural
competition for control surgically excises the less competitive.
An organism uses two basic mechanisms to control its behavior; one type :· s
genetically programmed and the other is ~metically unprograrrmed. Thus one control
mode is nonadaptive and one is adaptive or learned. That fraction that is unprogrammed
is available for experiential or learned prouramming.
Now intelligence may be viewed as the ability to adapt behavior; e.g., to
use tools. Thus an incrc;ase in intelligence represents a decrease in the portion of
b0havior control that is genetically programmed or "hard-wired," and a corresponding
increase in the unprogrammed portion of behavior control that is available for
adaptive learning.
Each organism must possess a mixture of both types of control. If it were
comf)letely programmed, it could not make any change at all in its responses to
external stimuli 1 and random environmental changes would quickly present it with
death-dealing stimuli not in its genetic catalogue. On the other hand, if the
organism were completely deprogrammed, it also would be quickly destroyed.
Adaptive behavior must be learned by trial and error, and fatal errors (e.g., forgetting
to beat thf! heart) would occur frequently unless there were many preprogrammed
responses.
Variations, mutations, and r:atural selection result in the different species
having differing ratios of programmed versus deprogrammed behavior control. A
"more intelligant" species is simply one which possesses more deprogrammed control
and less programmed control. E.g., on earth, Man is the species of land mammal
possessing the least programmed control and the most unprogrammed control.
Eventually, one or more species will deprogram significantly and become
extremely adapti·1e; i.e., highly intelligent. But if this species does not possess
a highly manipulative body member, its use of external physical tools will be limited
or nonexistent and it will remain .!1Q!!technological. Examples of such earth species
are the bottlenosed dolphin and the killer whale. However, if the species has a
highly manipulative body part, it can readily adapt external tools. It is then
inherently technological and its tool-using abilities will continue to develop due
to its "intelligence" or adaptive ability, The use of tools intervenes in the statistics
of survivability, and itself becomes an evolutionary determinant. I.e. 1 tool-using
skill becomes a sur vi val trait and a selection mechanism for the species. Man is
such a technological species on planet Earth.
@ 1977 Thomas E. BAarden
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