Re: Memetic Paradigms

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 10:31:28 BST

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    On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:16:47PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
    > Obviously, a gene for brown eyes cannot manifest in the absence
    > of a head growing, but it does not matter how many legs one has
    > (or have you stared in the Buddha-nature eyes of a dog lately?).
    > We can indeed tell what the codon boundaries of particular genes
    > are, and can isolate and correlate them in the laboratory; that's
    > what the Human Genome Project has been doing for the last
    > decade. Have you kept up with ANYTHING scientific in the last 20
    > years, or do you restrict yourself to eastern religion and empty
    > rhetoric?

    Ignoring your rhetoric, it's now clear that by "isolable atom" you don't
    mean genes can survive on their own. Despite what you might think,
    that was *not* clear previously. (And the sheer silliness of the idea
    is not good enough reason to rule it out as something you might say.)

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    Robin Faichney
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