THE CARRIER

I needed a simple image that could help me formulate a complex idea.

Imagine a computer.

A computer can process information, while information can exist on a separate medium.

For example, on a USB drive.

We connect the medium — and the computer gains access to the information.

Then I asked myself another question.

If the brain can, in a certain sense, be viewed as a complex information-processing system, what role could water play in that system?

I understood that a human being is not a computer, and water is not a USB drive.

This is only an analogy.

A diagram of my hypothesis about the natural transfer of information:

Human → Burial → Molecules containing information → Soil → Rain → Groundwater → Plant / Drinking Water → Human → Brain

This is a diagram of my hypothesis and a conceptual representation of the idea, not a claim about a scientifically proven mechanism.

It was not proof for me.

It helped me formulate a question.

Could water somehow participate in the preservation, transmission, or access to information within a living system?

I did not know the answer.

But the question seemed important enough to write down.