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archytas  
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 More options Jun 30, 2:57 am
From: archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 30 2008 2:57 am
Subject: a biology of ...
Pat often presents his dire, alcohol-free Kaliber-Yawn space of modern
physics.  He knows me well enough to know this is not nasty ridicule.
I find myself wondering how different my life really is from feeling
hungry, finding rabbit in trap and cooking and eating it.  I currently
find myself teaching foreign students for much the same purpose, or
applying for jobs to do so etc.  It is as vapid a process as anything
Orn describes in the current heartless materialism, and way from any
new consciousness Molly might touch to from time to time, or Vam in
his sagacity of the 'one'.
I'm a long way from science these days, and find my knowledge off beam
when I look at odd bits of stuff that interest me.  I'm left just
wondering how irrelevant it all seems as a tiny speck in enornmity,
possibly in a universe amongst many, trapped in the speed of light in
a vacuum within voids with a science fiction that takes me to the
despair of soap operas being played out in a future like the past
attempt to deny, with no purpose other than to repeat a history I
think I'm really ashamed to be part of.  At the moment, I can't really
even dream anything else.  Depression maybe - though I know enough of
this to doubt it is.
The biology of this appears somewhat played out.  I am just a vessel
now obselete in sperm wars and the genetics of a cruel evolution that
makes me doubt soul and personal identity.  The moral questions of the
day seem only part of this 'waiting for catastrophe' and renewal
beyond any personal influence.  Life seems so far from any reason for
me to know (speculate) on time and being before big bang, even if this
might be evidenced in maps of background radiation.
I do find myself wondering whether biology might be about to change.
HOX genes are 'managing genes' that could give snakes legs and so on
by reorganising the other genes.  Perhaps there are other organising
genetic forces-structures coming along that would change how and what
we perceive?  After all, ants 'do slavery' and we tend to slap
ourselves into thinking this is 'immoral' and very conscious activity
(I'm sure it is rotten).  If we are 99% chimp and 42% bananas, we are
hoxed very differently.  I wonder if we could speculate on biology in
the 'Kaliber-Yawn' manner, instead of from within the trap of our
infestation of this planet?  What might this wider biology be?

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From: ornamentalmind <ornamentalm...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:10:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
Point of interest: All teleological processes are alive.

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From: ornamentalmind <ornamentalm...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:12:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
Sorry Neil...perhaps I just need to step out of Flatland for a while.

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From: archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
On the contrary friend - this is my point.  The physics is currently
somewhat demoralising, however Pat may enliven some possibilities.  Do
any of us have a biological spec-articulation?

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From: Pat <PatrickDHarring...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 30 2008 5:34 am
Subject: Re: a biology of ...

On 30 Jun, 07:57, archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Pat often presents his dire, alcohol-free Kaliber-Yawn space of modern
> physics.  He knows me well enough to know this is not nasty ridicule.

    True!

     How about: Biology is the means by which God makes his thoughts
present in space-time.

     Also, there's the Histone Code of epigenetics that could open
some new doors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone_code

     Also, one can ponder what DNA-like codes would be likely in
silicon-based lifeforms rather than our carbon-based garden
varieties.  I bet there's not been a lot of work done in that.


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From: Pat <PatrickDHarring...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:35:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...

On 30 Jun, 08:35, archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On the contrary friend - this is my point.  The physics is currently
> somewhat demoralising, however Pat may enliven some possibilities.  Do
> any of us have a biological spec-articulation?

   Done, in my message above.


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From: archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
I don't exactly like the god notion Pat - yet Biology seems to need
some explanation, especially given that we can't  exactly travel to
the stars, other than in our ramshackle-tinfoil way.  Currently we
would struggle to get to Mars, though would find soil suitable for
vegetables.  I would not dismiss the god-thought expression in any way
- but what can we elaborate on this or rival skeletons?

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From: archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
DNA is definitely not all, nor macro survival of the fittest, or
catastophe driven change.  What would modern speco-thinking be on
this?

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From: ornamentalmind <ornamentalm...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: a biology of ...
Our bodies are only one very small part of the entire 'tree'. They are
at the base, and next comes our brains then our sexual and spiritual
drives. Yet, we then have to move through a hand full of subconscious
'minds' until we even reach cognition. Introspection will not be found
in biology. And, hormones are one aspect of 'mind'.

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