Biochemical controls (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, May 08, 2025, 08:25 (15 hours, 38 minutes ago) @ David Turell

Biochemical controls: maintaining a memory

DAVID: maintaining a memory involves maintaining a synapse all controlled by specific proteins, no thought involved by the proteins themselves.

Once they are established, the majority of activities within cellular communities (organisms) will be automatic. It’s only when new conditions require or allow new responses that cellular intelligence comes into play – and part of these responses will clearly be intelligent use of memory. The immune system is an obvious example.

Fungus control

QUOTES: "Zhou et al. (1) report a fungal species that resides in the human gut and produces a compound that protects against metabolic disease in mice.”

“Intestinal symbiotic fungi may be an untapped reservoir of possible therapeutic chemical compounds.”

DAVID: the same evolutionary system that dhw derides as causing 99.9$ unnecessary organisms, produced this helpful one. It is obvious others will be found as god designed helpful forms for human support.

I have never ever derided the evolutionary system! It is YOU who deride your God by insisting that he specially, messily, cumbersomely and inefficiently designed and then had to cull 99.9 out of 100 species that were irrelevant to the single purpose you impose on him (us and our food). This has nothing whatsoever to do with a fungus which helps to protect mice against metabolic disease and might possibly have untapped potential for improving human health!

On a very different note, I see that you have not replied to my new miscellany post of yesterday. I do hope this was just a technical hitch and was not due to any deterioration in your health, which is always a matter of deep concern.