Genome complexity: DNA repair mechanisms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, October 23, 2015, 14:21 (3319 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Thank you for a great article describing an amazing process. It brings home to us the vast scale of the micro-world that lives inside us. ... If we rid ourselves of our “large organisms chauvinism” (Shapiro) and acknowledge the possibility that just as we are intelligent specks in a vast universe, the specks in our bodies are also beings with their own form of intelligence, the whole process makes sense.-It makes just as much sense to recognize intelligent information running the processes.
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> DAVID (under “ant colony complexity”): Still 50/50. Just as likely I am right and lots of folk agree with me. I know how automatic my cells are in my human body. 
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> dhw: You “know”? It's worth recalling Stephen Talbott's observation: “We discover that our highest capacities - our thinking, our formulation of goals and plans, our strivings and passions, our sense of well-being and illness - are objectively imaged in our own biological organism right down to the molecular activity of our cells, as also in the cells of every other living creature.” (My bold). But you “know”?-Still 50/50