RE: Physical idealism
May 8, 2016 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 7:03 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 8, 2016 at 12:42 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Oh sorry, I think I did but I will try and be clearer
Bennyboy Wrote:In other words, the human body actually isn't completely represented in the DNA
Yes it is. Some genes are dormant and some are active.
But it's a secondary representation. What, for examples, does say an ASCII "65" code represent? It represents the text symbol "A" which in turn represents the A sound, and a collection of various sounds represent words which represent ideas. There is a complex mapping of meaning from level to level, but ultimately, there is purpose in that mapping: the ideas don't supervene on the structures which relate them, but vice versa. Now to be clear, when I talk about say the "idea" of a wave of light, I'm not saying Bob the Creator is thinkin' on it 'n' sich-- I mean that light-ness drives the photon, rather than being a property OF a single photon or a collection of them.
As for dormant genes. . . what would happen if you stripped them all, in your opinion, and had a "simplified" DNA strand. Would we be streamlined superbeings, or pools of jelly?
