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In previous series on Dredd Blog, e.g The Uncertain Gene, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and On The Origin of Genieology, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and "If Cosmology Is "Off," How Can Biology Be "On?" some of the difficulties the concepts of genes have gone through were considered.
In today's post one aspect of those difficulties, the Abiology of it all, is revisited because when I tried to find human DNA segments in microbe DNA of the type discussed in the short video at the end of this post.
Today's Appendices (AOBhuman, AOBmicrobe, AOQB segs) are my study results, so far, in the search for human DNA segments in microbial DNA. The AOBhuman and AOBmicrobe appendices have links to GenBank where the DNA I have used so far is recorded. The AOQB segs is an example of the complexity of the DNA structure. I extracted it as the video at the end of this post (first extract a "promoter-terminator" section, then extract the start and stop codon sections).
I then search through 950,707 non-human DNA sequences using 363.806 human DNA sequences (from which mRNA is constructed in both human and non-human species).
No matches were found, that is, none of the 363,806 DNA sequences were found in the 950,707 non-human sequences.
I was sure some older DNA would be found, so I will keep looking and writing about in in future posts in this series.
"The Abiology of it all" means events during the time before biology when only non-living matter was in existence, "according to Hoyle", especially since DNA is not alive (The Uncertain Gene - 8) and should have "fingerprints of time" in it.
One wonders why scientists have a proclivity to want to be believed or else:
"In the first moments after the Big Bang, the universe was extremely hot and dense. As the universe cooled, conditions became just right to give rise to the building blocks of matter – the quarks and electrons of which we are all made. A few millionths of a second later, quarks aggregated to produce protons and neutrons. Within minutes, these protons and neutrons combined into nuclei. As the universe continued to expand and cool, things began to happen more slowly. It took 380,000 years for electrons to be trapped in orbits around nuclei, forming the first atoms. These were mainly helium and hydrogen, which are still by far the most abundant elements in the universe. Present observations suggest that the first stars formed from clouds of gas around 150–200 million years after the Big Bang. Heavier atoms such as carbon, oxygen and iron, have since been continuously produced in the hearts of stars and catapulted throughout the universe in spectacular stellar explosions called supernovae.
But stars and galaxies do not tell the whole story. Astronomical and physical calculations suggest that the visible universe is only a tiny amount (4%) of what the universe is actually made of. A very large fraction of the universe, in fact 26%, is made of an unknown type of matter called “dark matter“. Unlike stars and galaxies, dark matter does not emit any light or electromagnetic radiation of any kind, so that we can detect it only through its gravitational effects.
An even more mysterious form of energy called “dark energy” accounts for about 70% of the mass-energy content of the universe. Even less is known about it than dark matter. This idea stems from the observation that all galaxies seems to be receding from each other at an accelerating pace, implying that some invisible extra energy is at work."
(CERN, emphasis added). The Dredd Blog series The Doll As Metaphor, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 is one critique, but recently there has been a spiritual aspect ("quantum spirituality?") injected into the mix:
"... Roger Penrose and I have developed a theory of consciousness ... It basically proposes quantum computation in brain neuron microtubules inside neurons. So rather than neuron-to-neuron communication, we're looking at a deeper level inside neurons to give a global sense of consciousness through quantum mechanics, which results in real-time causality and free will ... it gives consciousness real-time control and a potential connection to fundamental space-time geometry, quantum space-time geometry, through Roger's objective reduction. This is consistent with Eastern spiritual traditions. Although Roger doesn't like to talk about it, I've taken the liberty of observing the implications of what he said and what we've said for consciousness, for Eastern philosophy and other spiritual traditions ... if quantum consciousness is correct, for example, if Penrose's idea is correct, we are literally ripples in the fine structure of space-time geometry, which can resonate - levels of consciousness can resonate from the Planck scale, the bottom level of the Universe, multiple hierarchical levels to the brain. This is consistent with Eastern philosophy and also indicates that afterlife, reincarnation, and out-of-body experiences that we've heard about are plausible. The quantum soul."
(Small Brains Considered - 16). "It's a free country so people can believe what they want to" however that is not a sufficient replacement for scientific accuracy:
A "priest", "elder", or "senior" can easily be applied to technocracy:
"Technocracy itself is an immortality ideology that, although it is coupled with materialism, has as part of its makeup an element of the magical and a belief that new tools and innovations provide solutions to both the small day-to-day problems of life and the larger problems of human happiness and mortality. Technology is entrancing, and, functionally, technologists become creators of magic and the wizards of today, claiming the same authority over technology that doctors claim over human health or shamans over the cursed. This has always been so, going back to ancestral peoples who learned to use fire, tools, wind, and wheels. Even in subsistence societies, technology has a greater impact on a variety of sociological variables than do supernatural or religious beliefs (Nolan and Lenski 1996)."
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[I repeat]"Even in subsistence societies, technology has a greater impact on a variety of sociological variables than do supernatural or religious beliefs (Nolan and Lenski 1996)."
(The Machine Religion). The nomenclature of the culture of the priest who hypothesized the big bang is of the same "language family" and nomenclature of the culture of the current commercialized scientific community.
(The Doll As Metaphor - 6). I mean the "A few millionths of a second later, quarks aggregated" assertion in the CERN quote above is preachy fiction, which needs some "This is consistent with Eastern philosophy and also indicates that afterlife, reincarnation, and out-of-body experiences that we've heard about are plausible. The quantum soul" help from the Small Brains Considered - 16 quote above.
The previous post in this series is here.
