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Yeah, not even DNA is fully in control. Michael Levin's planarian worms experiments show that he can use an electromagnetic field for a short time in a certain
by quantadev 2y ago
Yeah, not even DNA is fully in control. Michael Levin's planarian worms experiments show that he can use an electromagnetic field for a short time in a certain way, and create a two-headed worm (normally it's one of course) that will persist to all it's offspring even though there's been ZERO alterations to DNA. So there is still much about the emergent complexity that we do not know.
- asdff 2y agoEven weirder conceptually than that: you have the same dna in all your cells. So why is your brain your brain, your eyes your eyes, and so on? Then you learn that not all genes are expressed all the time. Then you learn even among those expressed genes that they could have been spliced differently and resulted in completely different protein structures. No magnets needed for this example of phenotypes extending beyond mere dna sequence, just a mirror to look at yourself.
- quantadev 2y agoThat was correct and made sense until the magnets and mirrors stuff which would require a bit of mental telepathy to understand what you meant.