Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA20921 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:36:30 +0100 Message-ID: <005f01c1227a$53b1cbc0$7d9cbed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Logic/ stemcells Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:28:15 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Hi all,
> Something to help Dace in order to keep his cool,
>
> > Genes do not appear to contain instructions for the folding of proteins.
> > The very concept of "genetic instruction" is speculative. There is, as
> yet,
> > no evidence to bolster it. Nucleic acid chains produce amino acid
chains.
>
> << What about the search into ' stemcells' !?
> Bush did give his fiat to do tests with these cells in order to fight
> desease.
> Like Dace said, we do not yet know how cells fold up in the way they do
> and why they do it that way, despite the efforts of list members to prove
> otherwise. We do not yet known what makes a key a key and what
> makes a lock a lock.
>
> Saying it otherwise seems to indicate 2 things, one, the persons involved
> saying they know, knows about evidence where noone seems to know
> about and two, or that the persons involved themselves lack the knowledge
> and hypothise.
> Making up conclusions about things which are not yet explained in detail,
> (there was not even granted permission to use such cells ( not in all
> countries)
> for investigations) is IMO trying to get the other(s) give up their search
> in what seems to me a good model to grasp memetics in its full.
>
> Giving now the opportunity to search why and how cells fold up in the
> way they do is IMO very important for memetics, not in the least to me
> personally.
> In a sense we gonna finally be able to determine if memes are involved
> in the making of genes or not.
> If 1_ memes are functions of genes or 2_ if memes are inheritable by
> offspring or not will be determined there, once and for all.
> And in a way, the future of memetics hangs in the balance with what
> scientists come up with.
>
> If stemcells are basicly ' virginal ' and they are able to grow in the 40
> weeks of pregnancy in about 200 cellspieces which combined together
> make up one baby ( braincells/ bloodcells/ skincells etc) well one, we
> will be surprised and two we will be able to see if all our theories will
> fold up correctly.
> But we are a long way from setting up cultures of cells in labo 's in
> order to breed cells which will make up our brain or muscle tissue !!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
> ( I am, because we are) one more step closer
>
>
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