Re: electric meme bombs

From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 02 Nov 2002 - 02:25:35 GMT

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    >
    >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
    >
    They work together because they can communicate, just as we do, but in their own chemical language.

    Grant

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