Re: DNA as a book
- From: "Akira Bergman" <akirab@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
Further coding for the levels above genes may be needed to protect the
higher functions from the lower level chemistry involved. Genes seem to
be at the middle of the genome fractal. They have an inner structure
and also may have an outer structure. Like eyes. They have two modes;
focus and anti-focus. Anti-focus focuses on the larger structures that
are spread all over the target. A bit like artists' eye-squeeze to
focus on the overall aspects.
There is analogy from the senses and the ways of being if I make the
following mapping;
0 Measure..Observe
1 See...Move
2 Taste...Feed
3 Touch...Sense
4 Smell...Feel
5 Hear...Think
6 Balance...Judge
Touch is in the middle and mediates all senses. {Taste,Smell},
{See,Hear} and {Measure,Balance} couple to each other around Touch.
Although the lower level functions are accessible at will, the higher
level ones are trancendental. We don't quite know how
{Feel,Think,Judge} work. We only crop the results of the process. We
can't concentrate underneath and have a look to see how it works. They
are higher structures and we just take them for granted.
Why are the higher functions hidden? Maybe to protect them from being
corrupted by the lower level functions. If you were able to manipulate
feelings, thoughts and the aesthetic capacity, then there would be
denial of the lower functions since they are based on them. The reason
we can't manipulate them is that we don't know the language involved.
They are meta-languages.
Similarly, higher level coding may be needed to protect the higher
functions from the genome lower level chemistry. Coding after all is
translating a language into a meta language. A meta language seems to
be needed to coordinate the genes. Maybe to control the usage of higher
function chemicals like hormones and neurotransmitters.
AB
Tom Hendricks wrote:
It seems DNA is encrypted. What is the code?
AB
Coding for all life IMO is the same.
It is coding that best stabilizes it in that environment.
(and allowing for change for more stability of life and to allow
life to grow, refine, and continue - is part of long term
stability in that definition).
Life is not an independent beginning - a pop and adapt
- pop out of nothingness and then adapt
Life is a reaction to what went before - its novelty is
not in replication or metabolism - those are just aspects
of its ability to continue for 4 billion years. Life is adapted.
It's a stability that only zircons, and planets can match
IF one suggests that coding can be for something other than
adapting to the environment - ie throwing out natural selection -
then what else can it code for?
That is the challenge - what can life code for that makes
it less stabile (my def.) in that environment?
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