Written by my friend: Mack Canady

I am all too aware of the continuous battle in my head between good and evil.

In fact, it’s not just me, this is a battle going on in all of our heads, the battle between instinct and righteousness.

There are two parts of our brains: There’s Kyle, who is a major douchebag, and there’s RY (Righteous You), who seeks truth and purpose.

Life is a constant battle between Kyle and RY.

Let's Take a Look at Kyle

Kyle is Human OS 1.0. The original software program humans have been running off of since the dawn of The Hominid. An incredible program initially, but as outdated as a Command Line Interface.

To get a better grasp of what exactly Kyle is, we have to take a bit of a dive into human evolution. Let’s start with a gene.

A Very Brief History Of Man Because I Am Not A Scientist

A gene is a small section of DNA that contains instructions for a specific molecule, usually a protein. The purpose of genes is to carry out their instructions and continue existing. You can think of a gene as a data particle encoded with one task: survive.

The first single-cell organism appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, about a billion years after Earth formed. The first gene-delivery-vehicle (GDV).

Not until about 600 million years ago did genes find that teaming up and working together gave them a better shot of carrying on their existence, and each cell had to do less work to keep on keepin’ on. This was the birth of the first multi celled organism.

Each time they formed together though, they forfeited a bit of individuality in return for a greater overall being. If a cell in a multicellular organism decided that it was sick of the team, it could just up and leave, which would cause some problems for the greater organism.

Think of it like a colony of ants. A colony of ants is the meta being, and each individual ant is a cell in the colony. This works so well because the only cell in the colony able to reproduce is the queen ant, so the other ant-cells will do whatever they can to protect the queen and keep the colony existing. If one of the ant-cells developed the ability to reproduce, it would have no need to stick around with the greater organism that is the colony because it would become independent and could go start its own colony.

So each time cells decide it's time to team up and make a bigger organism able to last longer and thrive, they sacrifice their individuality for the greater good of the purpose of the genes, to keep existing. But each time they teamed up, they made a stronger, more durable vehicle to carry the genes.