From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 10:40:09 MDT
gts wrote:
> So then if we hope to keep our personalities intact while leaving our
> organic bodies behind, we will need to find a way to codify the rules
> that control the endocrine system. That information exists in our
> genes.
>
### Be more specific, please. Do you mean the information inherent in the
subatomic structure of the DNA? Do you mean the quantum-mechanical
description of the shape of DNA molecules? What about the information
present in the patterns of phonons within DNA?
What do you mean by "genes"? The chemical substance? The knowledge of the
world implicit in the cell and the DNA transcription/translation machinery?
Are you saying that to read a book you need to analyze the chemical
properties of the paper?
It is a great benefit to be able to model the world in terms of a number of
levels, with no need to fully model a lower level to get useful data while
looking at a higher level. Try it.
Rafal
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