I haven't managed to read the entire paper yet, but it seems to be along similar lines to the idea that the brain receives consciousness from somewhere else, like in the story by Barrington Bayley (I forget the title) in which the universe is criss-crossed with beams of consciousness that cause life to emerge and get filtered through the structures that appear as a result. One amusing point in the story (which is opnly about 5 pages long) is that the beams have no origin - they come from an infinite distance, and occasionally get redirected by beings who arise as a result of their influence.
On the subject of DNA being memory, it's a form of memory of what worked in the past, but not very like the sort we appear to use in our brains - that is, it's a pattern that represents successful past reproducers, but is more or less fixed in any given organism (as far as I know, ignoring retroviruses etc). The similarity between DNA and brain type memory seems roughly the similarity between genes and memes. I can't see any reason to assume they would use the same molecular mechanism. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
