From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 20:51:41 GMT
Grant,
> Genes are a human way of looking at a body and selecting certain aspects
to
> speculate about. The color of one's eyes, for example, may not be
governed
> by a specific section of DNA but is possibly distributed through several
> sections of the DNA that lead the body to create eyes. The idea of
dividing
> the genome up into little pieces and assigning them a specific task is a
> human way of looking at the process but what the cell processing the DNA
is
> doing might be something quite different.
I don 't deny that!
I just refute the idea that collectiviness is an inbedded first trait of
nature.
IMO it is a second stage of an evolutionary process, dividing the genome
up into little pieces can be seen as a way back to the origins_ thus back
to the singular cells, but cells have to work together to make a human.
What we all forget is that everything and all start as one singularity, as
one cell ! We all see cells working together, they are all inbedded in
what collective is known as a human being, the one single cell is for-
gotten ! The interest in one single cell can 't outweight the huge accom-
plishments of finding out how other cells work together.
That is my pain !
Kenneth
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