Comments on: Telepathic Genes

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:11:09 +0000

There is an interesting issue here involving chemistry. When I took general chemistry, I was impressed with the mathematics, and I was impressed with the neat little package that was presented as a hard science; this was a presumed objectivity I anticipated. Then things started to change in organic chemistry, the neat little package became open-ended in the number of possibilities. This open quality extended into biochemistry, and my neat little package was no more. I can't help suspect that there is something open-ended in chemistry that is all too convenient as we discover new emergent properties that were unanticipated. The complex expressions seem to be beyond our neat little package, even like magic. It is like the presumed objective laws of chemistry are found necessary, but not sufficient, to explain the discovered complex expressions of life. This leaves open the possibility of teleology, in my view.

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:15:57 +0000

This is straight chemistry. Nothing magical.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:31:00 +0000

Could this be an emergent property that is undetermined from the underlying chemistry? Or is it a property that was "unanticipated," showing a deeper puzzle that is beyond our present conception of chemistry? A molecular law of attraction?

By: hrun

hrun — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:38:07 +0000

That's awesome. And so useful. Even though it will require further testing to see if this attractive force also holds true for chromatin (DNA in complex with Histones).