Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
them. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 5:35 pm Subject: Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot? On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Our

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2013, at 00:06, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 2:35 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Our bodies are both, I would say. But we are not our bodies, we are our values, ideas, memories, etc. But evolution

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-07 Thread spudboy100
which transcends them. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 5:35 pm Subject: Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot? On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2013, at 07:14, Chris de Morsella wrote: A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex multi-species ecosystems that by and large have evolved to work together in ways we

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Our bodies are both, I would say. But we are not our bodies, we are our values, ideas, memories, etc. But evolution implies that those are not independent of our bodies. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:06:29 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Nov 2013, at 07:14, Chris de Morsella wrote: A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex multi-species

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread John Mikes
Chris - Liz - Bruno Nov.6: * Are we organisms; or ecosystems? * Who cares? those are WORDS without proper meaning. OF COURSE WE ARE complexities (without knowing what they are indeed) and we follow the partial list of information we so far received. Try to figure it as nations (countries?) in

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Our bodies are both, I would say. But we are not our bodies, we are our values, ideas, memories, etc. But evolution implies that those are not independent of our bodies. Locally. Relatively. Yes. Like

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-06 Thread meekerdb
On 11/6/2013 2:35 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Our bodies are both, I would say. But we are not our bodies, we are our values, ideas, memories, etc. But evolution implies that those are not independent of our

RE: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex multi-species ecosystems that by and large have evolved to work together in ways we hardly understand. To give some perspective I've read there are

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Both, I believe. (But watch Osmosis Jones for the definitive answer.) On 6 November 2013 19:14, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex