Not all DNA code for protein. We have non coding DNA called "junk DNA" that ensure we are all unique. While normal DNA codes for protein to make, for example a "nose", junk DNA ensures that we grow a nose that "looks" like a mixture of our father`s and our mother`s nose.
On Friday, March 22, 2013 12:36:39 AM UTC+1, Ash wrote: > > My thoughts didn't include "junk DNA", my thinking on such terms are > mixed in that some genes may not be useful or represent just another > failure point, but also that the supposed junk in one set of > circumstances may prove quite beneficial in others like a backup, an > alternate development chain or complex interdependencies we haven't > observed yet. You may have a connection in mind I haven't gleaned. > > Developing the market sounds similar but I am trying to root out an > aspect of this that doesn't require jumping to a premature conclusion, > such as in 'intelligent design', materialism, rigid ontologies or > realism. Thanks for helping me explore here gabby, lets hope some form > emerges in expression. :) > > On 3/21/2013 3:57 AM, gabbydott wrote: > > Now that sounds more like you. :) > > What you are describing or asking I now understand/interpret/hear in > > terms of what I know about what they are trying to find out about > > "junk DNA". Its purpose/function/added value. As for what you describe > > as another way, I know/experience/see this in what the companies > > describe as "developing the market". We are still on topic, aren't we? > > > > > > 2013/3/21 James <[email protected] <javascript:> <mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>>> > > > > I have a feeling you are being charitable with me gabby (cringe). > > What you say makes sense, and should add that the intent I refer > > to is in excess of that needed for mere gene survival fitness. In > > that sense I consider the adaptations as simulations and the > > excess as breaking the barriers of meta-simulation, or in another > > way, not just running within time but operating on it by taking > > advantage of the rules and finding ways to bend them. Now it is my > > turn to ask, does that make sense [to anyone]? > > > > > > On 3/20/2013 3:01 AM, gabbydott wrote: > > > > I don't know if this is good or bad, but i hear that you > > haven't just heard about mirror neurons, that this is a > > relatively consciously made up construct, a construct with > > intent or purpose. Also it sounds strange when you say that > > this neurological mechanism is strange (to you). That's where > > my "parallel mirror neurons" come into play, i compare what > > you say with what i have heard you saying before and add the > > info as well as my judgement on what you say to my internal > > "Virtualization" of you. The leap is more of a constant > > exercise of differentiating between you and me while operating > > on the virtualization of each participant, so to speak. Does > > that somehow make sense to you? > > > > Of course, I could go back to the group website and search for > > the real data on what you have been saying on neurological > > mechanisms. But this would be a completely new project. I'd > > have to go back and construct a new image with my knowledge of > > now. > > > > But since you are still alive and still communicating, I find > > it much easier and more purposeful to keep on listening to > > what you say, to respond to it, and to rely on you saying, if > > you disagree. Not a good position for me to be in, more of a > > survival strategy. Now that's worth a leap into rethinking > > mode. ;) > > > > > > 2013/3/20 James <[email protected] <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>> <mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>>> > > > > > > My response was mostly a parallel narrative, my thinking on > a > > personal level is when does a system of components > > transcend the > > boudaries of automata and begin to engage in the operations > of > > intent. Where does gene fitness adaptation break loose into > > something perceiving, interacting, understanding and > > mastering? I > > have heard that our ability to reflect and interact on an > > intimate > > level arises from a strange neurological mechanism called > > mirror > > neurons. If this is something like the virtualization > > technologies > > we have been building in technology then with a bit more > > scale and > > pondering our science may make the leap logarithmically. > > > > > > On 3/18/2013 8:15 PM, James wrote: > > > > I see this sometimes too Andrew, and we learn how our > > internal > > systems and culture drive and shape us, so we can > > create. We > > model from the simplest sensory stimuli on to > > reflections on > > the nature of our existence and what could be in a > > simultaneous simulation of reality. Our world can be > > full of > > intent, or I should say we experience it thus due to our > > capacity arising from our nature and drawing parables > > in the > > mist. It makes me wonder how many levels of abstraction, > > simulation and foresight are necessary to represent > > the human > > element. That minds like ours are derived from nature is > > astonishing and awe inspiring, that we reach so far > > and yet > > innocence is so fragile, the experience of awareness > > is far > > from today's science I think. Our synthetic > > counterparts or > > robots will have to wait. > > > > On 3/13/2013 5:35 AM, andrew vecsey wrote: > > > > Perhaps we are born into a world filled with > negative > > aspects rather than positive aspects so as to give > > us a > > direction. We are born small so that we can grow. > > We are > > born ignorant so that we could know. We are born > with > > negative aspects so that we could acquire positive > > ones. > > > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 12:11:39 PM UTC+1, > andrew > > vecsey wrote: > > > > Why do so many of us remember negative > > feelings easier > > than > > positive ones. Pain over pleasure. Bad news > > over good > > news. Why > > does "bad" overshadow "good", immorality over > > morality, despair > > over hope, pessimism over optimism. Why does > hate > > appear to be > > more powerful than love? Why is greed louder > than > > generosity. Why > > is destruction of war so much faster than the > > building > > power of > > peace. Why can one little lie destroy a > > lifetime of > > trust. Why are > > lies more influential than truth. It all seems > > so one > > sided. 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