I'm going to raise the question again: "Where is the soul?" In the DNA. Simply the recreation of an individual is the recreation of the soul.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
It has been a while ...
I was reminded what's been going on in the NYTimes article about "Awaiting the Genome Payoff". I can't believe the daily obstacles that are getting in the way of progress. Progress has been slow but there is progress. The most awesome news to date is the creation of artificial life.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Why are we here?
I am fascinated by the NYTimes article about our existence. Can our existence be explained by simple mathematics? Given more matter than anti-matter we exist ... as opposed to being less than dead?
What is the difference between positive and negative in magnetism? They are opposite forces where morality doesn't even play a role. We understand positive to be good and negative to be bad when really they are just labels.
We could exist in an alternate universe if we made it happen ... not in binary but whatever distribution we want.
(c) Christie Ewen 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Hydra
by Christie Ewen 2/13/10
This fresh water organism deserves more attention. Hydra may be immortal because they regenerate their tissues and organs without an apparent end state. There's not enough data to make a conclusion but Daniel E. Martinez's study appears to suggest Hydra are indeed immortal.
An interesting point raised about evolutionary biology in both sources listed below is about TIMING. Just having the desired genes (that includes the so called "junk" DNA) is not enough to make an organism immortal, switches need to turn the genes ON and/or OFF at specific times.
REFERENCES
by Daniel E. Martinez
PBS Nova What Darwin Never Knew
What is the difference between aging and senescence?
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