From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 14:58:15 MDT
Robert writes
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > For example,
> > I dare say that if all my DNA ceased being transcribed
> > into RNA at this very moment, I would have at least a
> > few minutes before anything untoward occurred. My body's
> > protein production and nerve firings would continue
> > unabated. Therefore, what is truly *me* can be captured
> > by a complete analysis of my body excluding my DNA.
>
> Only from a short term state analysis perspective. I would
> say "Robert Bradbury" is a collection of memories and a vector
> into the future. If your DNA is currently required to
> retain those memories and drive you into the future I
> would suggest that you not discard it so easily.
Is there any evidence *whatsoever* that DNA stores
memories? I have never even *heard* of such a thing.
> > More particularly, merely the information recorded in
> > my *brain* in terms of its memories and potential
> > behaviors suffices to re-create me in principle.
>
> Yes, at least I and many others on the list would agree
> (I hope) that your neural interconnect map will reproduce
> Lee Corbin. (Now, why we would ever want to do that
> given the grief he has caused over the last couple of
> months is beyond my imagination... but I digress... :-))
At this point Robert has, for completely inexplicable
reasons wandered into potentially libelous areas.
As for the grief caused, it has been entirely in the
minds of certain other posters, where, um, it belongs.
Hmm. I guess that's always true of grief.
> > Now it's true that I am not being threatened by a
> > tiger at this moment,
>
> We could only hope....
Further inflammatory and exceedingly uncharitable
provocations will only increase my already overwrought
indignation, and not only will they go into the
personal dossier I have on you, but will be forwarded
to my lawyer as well for appropriate legal action.
> > but had one appeared thirty
> > seconds ago I would have reacted in a way *determined*
> > entirely, so I claim, by my present brain state.
>
> Hmmm.... Can we set this up on a loop -- Lee Corbin's
> brain constantly reacting to a threat posed by a tiger.
Beyond *uncharitable*, these suggestions now clearly
border on the criminally psychotic and sadistic, and
(especially if Mike Lorrey is right about characters
in fiction actually *really* suffering when bad things
happen to them), the prospect that I may indeed one
day suffer (or am already suffering!) at the hands of
those who may take your suggestion at face value has
begun to engender in me an urge to revenge.
> > By this time, the DNA is no longer *directly* participating
> > in rendering me. An analogy: after the building is
> > constructed, the blueprints are to some degree no longer
> > important.
>
> Ah Ha, but as the WTC investigations have shown having the blueprints
> are essential to understanding why something comes apart (or how
> it was put together). Don't we need the Lee Corbin blueprints to
> explain how the construct produced by those blueprints can create
> such a disruption in the force?
Yes (waxing serious for a moment), as DNA is a "recipe" for
the construction of a human, it probably indeed does contain
a valuable condensation about one. This strengthens the
analogy to blueprints, in just the way you've explained
via the WTC.
Lee
P.S. Heaven forbid that any of my joking around above
be taken seriously for even a minute by anyone, but I
just could not stand to deface my mock-high dudgeon
with emoticons. LOL.
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