Extended Evolutionary Synthesis; another view (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, August 08, 2015, 00:50 (3182 days ago) @ David Turell

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> " My point is if we look at the genetic code, we think first of DNA. But if we integrate the role of viruses and virus-derived parts, such as mobile genetic elements, or endogenous retroviruses, it becomes clear that most of the DNA serves as a house, a habitat for its RNA inhabitants. . . . 
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This is similar in nature to a programming function within a class. The Genome acts as a class, the RNA as a function. -
> "Viruses are so abundant on this planet, in each ecological niche, that there is no organism independent of the influence of viruses and their genetic content. . . .
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> "The other point is that the genetic code is really a code, it is a natural code. This means it's a natural language, so we must assume there are code users because no natural language speaks itself as no natural code codes itself. It is always competent users that produce sequences for transport of meaning or content. . . . 
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No natural code codes itself... that is pretty much to the point, isn't it? And if no natural language exists without a reader, than naturalism ends up with a chicken and egg problem. Which came first, the intelligent coder/reader, or the code to create the coder/reader?-
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> "I found that coordination of living agents, whether they are cells or viruses or parts of cells -- coordination of behavior in organisms needs and must have signaling. Without signaling you can't have transport of information and you can't really get coordination of two participating agents. This is the main principal of communication. Communication means sign-mediated interactions or signal-mediated interactions. . . .
> -> "Third is the trans-organismic communication level, which is where organisms communicate, signal other organisms not of the same species as we can find it in symbiotic processes. 
> -Flowers and bees anyone? How did they communicate to organize their communication?

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.