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Article #8750Re: Do biomolecules have a collective form of "consciousness"? Ross Tessien answers!
From: "Sir Knowitall"
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:00
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>From: Ross Tessien <Tessien@oro.net> snip > >The thing that is amazing to me, is that biologists think in terms of auto >assembly or little molecular machines to assemble the components of DNA. >But they fail to take one step further back to realize that there must be a >mechanism for accomplishing that feat in spacetime itself. Spacetime, must >have the genetic information in it. Otherwise, you could not call atoms >into the correct locations and end up with, Biology. snip Dear Ross, I believe this "conceptual simplification" is in most cases a very sensible approach, and one that most biologists would readily and appropriately defend by a statement that could read something like: For pragmatic reasons it is important to keep things simple and immediately relevant, enough for there to be a great enough chance of achieving usefully workable results ----- i.e. results not necessarily workable in a way by which a philosophically motivated searcher manages to put her/himself into a state (always a self-regulatory state) of feeling "all-knowingly good". "Sir Knowitall" P.S. I always try to put my best "FOOT" [Foremost Overview Of Truth] forward. It is a fact of life that this sometimes means that I cannot avoid stepping on someone else's "TOE". :->
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