You are less complex than a chocolate bean

An article in an English newspaper states that "a human seems genetically less complex than a chocolate biscuit". What a thing to say. It totally misses what complexity is.

The scientists looked at the number of pairs in the dna sequence. Cocoa has more pairs of genes, that does not mean there is complexity. 40,000 identical pairs is not complex. 10,000 pairs that are each different is complexity. It is the number of genes, it is the combinations complexity that allows a living thing to have a wider variety of aspects.

It is the purity thing versus the variation thing again. Purity is all the same, heavy like gold. Variation is steel, it is much stronger than gold. Did you ever wonder who decided that gold had value? Think about it, gold was considered valuable 4,000 years ago. As a metal it is pretty useless except in electrical applications. It is too soft, it is difficult to find and is only good for jewelry. It is not the pretties thing, it is no prettier than copper which is a usable metal. So who decided it had value?

What made it valuable? What made it valuable was that it was heavier than any other metal. That had value because you could use it in weights. Remember, they use to weigh money. Weights and measures were critical to commerce prior to their being "official" money. The king set the weights, to violate the weight was sure death.

A cocoa bean would not know these things. It would never occur to a coffee bean to build a car. Why do they keep trying to trivialize us? Why do they keep trying to tell us that we are less than the things we experience? They are wrong, you matter, you are not the only one who matters; but, you matter too. The guy next to you, guess what, he matters. That cocoa bean cannot feel pain, it cannot learn and it has no concept of loneliness.