Despite decades of dazzling advance in science and technology the answer to the origin of life is as elusive as ever. It’s time to look at the issue in a new light. The key to solve this mystery is to know the true identity of our earth, whether it’s just a rock sitting in space for lives to inhabit or is it actually a unique kind of a living system. Is it Gaia and sentient? Does it have eyes or ears or a brain? Is it a plant or an animal, or something else? Once the true status of earth is revealed, not only can the question of life’s origin be answered, we can also find out the reason for our human existence, the purpose of the universe and more. This book is the ultimate answer to an ultimate question. There will not be another answer.The first chapter describes the striking similarities between a living cell and earth with humans acting as the information carrying genes of this planetary cell. Further evidence to support such a claim is the significance of tools and machinery humans make as compared to the proteins and enzymes cell genes manufacture.Together with an atmosphere that acts as its membrane, our planet can now fulfill the definition of a living cell. By knowing the true identity of our planet, the chicken or egg puzzle can now be solved.Chapter 2 and 3 use earth and a living cell as reference to explain the role of human and the purpose of the universe. Because of our ability to look into the human activities, how evolution can happen in the cellular world other than a simple chance mutation and natural selection can be answered; and by looking into the history of the cellular world, we can also find out how humans can conquer the stars and even distant galaxies.Chapter four describes the fierce debate of a world of both order and disorder among scientists. It exposes the fallacy of science attempting to use an open system and a cellular structure to explain life's peculiar behavior in the face of a world of randomness and chaos.Chapter five solves the puzzle of the mystery of life's origin. It reveals life did not originate from earth but in reality is developing in stages starting at the beginning of the Big Bang. Earth as a living cell and human as its genes is solid proof how this happens as is explained in this chapter in details. With the cellular world as one of the stages and now earth as another, there will be more to come.In the final chapter, it demonstrates how life is building up orders in this universe by using randomness and even chaos. It explains that life and the universe exist hand in hand together and survive on a nuclear or partnership existence and because of their co-existence, it solves the mystery of how our fine tuned universe can be so life friendly. The question of how a universe can be both order and disorder at the same time can also be answered. This last chapter reveals exactly what the meaning of life is and how to use one sentence to define life and this universe. This book is written in everyday common language but be forewarned, materials and evidence presented in the chapters are revolutionary and unique and at times they can be explosive and jaw dropping. Your world view and your life's outlook will change.
It is hard to understand how someone, Anatoni Tamanaki in this case, can write a book about a subject about which he or she has so little knowledge. I am not a genius and I have not yet written my book. What I can tell you is that after reading hundreds, no, thousands of books over my 82 years on this planet, I am certain that I have never read any author who knew so little about the subject that he or she was trying to expound upon. Please, save yourself the agony of wasted time and trust me, the content of this book only wasted my time. I kept wondering, where are the guesses going to end and when, then, would something brilliant come out of these pages. It did not happen ... ever!!! The subject is fascinating and there is a vast amount of information available to us all. Tamanaki did not read any of those offerings and knows nothing about this subject. Trust me, do not waste you time or money. Money is recoverable, time is lost forever! BTW, I wrote this review condemning Anatoni, then I did not submit it. I read it again, the book that is ... in all honesty, I tried to. I got a lot further and found that Anatoni was not a complete idiot, no, he held barely enough knowledge and education to actually fool many and I tried again to find his brilliance. At least I can say this with abundant certainty. Mr. Tamanaki has not a clue about solving our many pain issues with his pet repair tool, FEAR!! Somehow, the medical profession has convinced us that they are all brilliant and they dispense their knowledge with careful and complete certainty. Oops, nope, not in every case and certainly not in this one.
Here is one more example, no two, wait, three ... the first happened while I was operating my own auto repair shop in San Carlos, California. I raced Alfa Romeo GT's in both professional and amature classes along the West Coast. I was not a big time guy and yet I knew many who were much closer to the "big time" than I would ever become. Due to our size and specialty, we got to know our clients on a first name basis. I saw, Dr. Wonderboy drive into my lot and was ready with a greeting and the question, "what's up doc?", adding, "what can I do for you today?" In a hurry, he quickly relayed his diagnosis and up to that point, he was still Dr. Wonderboy to me. He said, "My Alfa has a blown head gasket and I would fix it myself but I don't have the time or the tools." Next, in one of my few "genius" moments, I paused an appropriate amount of time, then slowly said, while wincing in faked pain ... ya know Doc, I've been having this pain back here on my lower body and it's getting worse ... I think it's my kidney and I'd fix it myself, but I don't have the time or the tools." That was nearly 60 years ago and I must say that my customer, Dr. Wonderboy, did the right thing. He looked down, thought for a while and apologized profusely. I would not tell this story except for the fact that I can easily cut him a lot of slack because he caught himself and deeply apologized.
Later, in one of my life alterations of income producing interests, I was a building contractor. Many of my clients, again, were in the medical profession. One was also the mayor of a small town, not quite a city on the South SF Peninsula. The remodel I had been commissioned to complete required a set of steps, only two of them, to get the owner and guests into the home. Since it was not the front or a main entry, I did what was normal, placed the steps at the correct size and included the proper rise. Oops, this dual practice medical/government leader didn't want it done right, she wanted it done her way. When I told her that my profession won't let me break rules on items which could induce a painful fall, I just cannot do it that way. She insisted and did I ... She that I would do it her way and my own insistence was in telling her to get another "boy", because I cannot risk my license or any legal action by doing things this critical in an incorrect and illegal manner. We parted company ... for Good!
Finally, I found my last and best general practitioner who, hopefully will be my last doctor to help me to the end of my years. What is my last doctor problem going to be? First, let me say that I have converted to nearly all women doctors. This one, who I will refer to last, is willingly ready to cheerfully tell me, anytime it seems necessary, these words; "I don't know" ... how can I not love her? ... not that she does not know everything but rather that she is willing, without the typical male doctor testosterone struggle, to use those words. That allows me to trust her more deeply and to know that when possible, she will keep digging for the correct specialist or a better answer ... and yes, she is beautiful and know this, my wife agrees that she is beautiful.
Occasionally, she will look at me with a sly grin as I approach her with my latest new medical 'find' as I wonder if I should try it. This brings out my second favorite answer she often gives to me. "Sure, try it"! Never if I have found something conflicting or idiotic and believe me, I am fully capable of doing exactly that, does she send me down a dead end road, NO!! but if it's a new concoction of marginally off the beaten pathway item which is not likely to cause harm. She too wonders if it might work. I am her test bed ... so far, I have survived all my various explorations and some have helped even if only marginally in most cases.
Cannabis, yep - weird food concoctions, yes - certainly! OTC items, for sure - others, of course. And, she is not against this "fear" inspired fixit technique as is proposed by Doctor Anatoni, but we know each other well enough that when I tell her that I hold no fear, we remain in-sync. She believes me and does not need me to sign up for a thousand dollars worth of 'shrinkage' to make sure that I know myself.
Here is my bottom line. Male doctors have a problem with confessing that they might not know all the answers. That's especially true when dealing with men patients. After all, what man ever wants to admit to another man, that he may be inconclusive in his prognosis in his specialty area? On more than a few occasions, I had to tell a car owner to "drive it until it is clearly broken", then I will know what to fix. It is the male nature to wish to have the answer for everything in our specialty. and I posses some of that, just ask my wife ... she will be wrong and she knows that I am always right ... oh, wait ....... that's just me being a comedian once more. BTW, carry buckets full of laughter with you through life. It surely eases the pain of it. This is why people like Lewis Black, Cathleen Madigan, George Carlin and others in that genera' are fun. They take situations which most of us do nothing with and make us laugh by more clearly pointing out our stupidity. Stupid is funny ... especially when we are allowed to enjoy the ignorance of others. How else do we know how brilliant we are ... wait, two more hours and my first book will have another new chapter ... gotta run ... bye.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Essentially a version of (or similar to) the Gaia Hypothesis, so that this is a book about how the totality of reality is (or ‘is like’) a living entity.
The book meanders meditatively and ponderingly through a lot of questions and ideas, with the author firing ideas in many directions. That makes it a harder read than necessary, as readers need to sometimes distil a mass of ponderings, to try and work out what the core claims actually are.
Those claims include a lot of assertions, such as ‘Intelligence is not an exclusive right that is reserved for humans. It is the property of the Universe…’ (Chp.3). But what does that even mean? What does it mean to use a word like ‘intelligence’ of humans, and then to apply it to the universe? In what meaningful sense are they both ‘intelligent?’
The author expended a significant quantity of words on issues like this, but I never really felt that I was able to get a clear understanding of what was really being claimed. Instead, it just felt like wading through a sea of ideas and reflections.
And so I struggled to understand on what basis the ideas were being asserted as appropriate to be held. It isn’t quite right to ask for ‘evidence’ or ‘proof’ of these kinds of issues, but I would have expected some kind of argued reasons or persuasive rationale for the kind of worldview that emerges amidst the ideas. But the book contained remarkably few references, citations and traditional style arguments, beyond its basic meditative ponderings (although it did refer the idea of the Gaia Hypothesis to Lovelock).
Understanding the book was not aided by the fact that there were problems in the text of the book. Sentences sometimes read as if they were being translated by a machine that wasn’t entirely sure of its tenses and grammar. For example, in chapter 1, the following sentence occurred: ‘when a human was sent to orbit around the earth, people are in awe.’ Here is an example from chapter 3: ‘There are still many experiments to be carried out and much work have to be done…’
Overall, this struck me as an imaginative visionary set of ideas, but they have been cast in a format which felt unfinished. The book needed further proof reading and it would have benefited from editing to shape the ideas into a clearer and sharper format, so that they were more readily accessible to readers.
I attempted to read through this book and finish. I began this book on the hope of learning about the origin of life, like the book title hints at. However I quickened surmised that this was more to do about the universe, the cosmos. I tempered my expectations and flexed my mind in the that direction. I was quickly dismayed by the observation needed a better edit. This book was obviously a translation, a primitive translation at that. The book was understandable but the poor editing job was jarring at times. Next, the author’s musings about the destiny and eventual progress of the solar system, our galaxy and ultimately the universe is beyond pie-in-the-sky. I actually question if this book was perhaps written as a high school thesis. The musings are that unsophisticated. This is the first book that I did not finish. I could no longer deal with the anger inducing aggravation that I was feeling. Books are supposed to inspire you, to teach you, to lift you from your book. A book should never get in the way of itself. This book, unfortunately cannot help but get in the way of I self.
Not only did I waste money on this poor edited and meandering sojourn of words but even worse was the waste of time that I spent reading this incoherent book filled with sophomoric musings about the earth and the cosmos. Please, if you haven’t obtained this book, don’t. Save your time and your money and aggravation.
First time ever giving only 2-Stars to a book,and hard to do, because the main idea behind the book deserves 5-Stars. Origin of Life introduces a theory that within the universe, Earth is like a Cell, and People are like its DNA. Reader's opinion is that such theory has real merit. Unfortunately, though, the Author's logic is conflicted throughout and suffers from its own assumptions. The text challenges Readers to forge through to the end of the book. To improve, an editor can strip out the politics and opinions, leaving the principles of biology to speak on their own authority. Synapse of passages and paragraph long sentences serve only to camouflage insightful truths embedded within the text. The few proofing errors are not distracting enough for determined readers to reach the end of the book. There, the Author's closing remarks reflect an arrogance that fails to integrate Sciences that support the Biology. Nevertheless, many thanks to the Author for expressing an impressive new theory for $.99 on Amazon Kindle!