How many proteins per average eukaryotic cell? O(?trillions?) necessary
for such a self-organizing system / dissipative structure?
O(10^15) cells in brain.. a Meta-SOS ?
hyp: #proteins : cell :: #cells : human ??
Well, humans have something like a million genes, so we have something
like a million proteins. About half of them are expressed in the
brain only, so are probably wiring instructions. Since we have >10^12
cells (at least 10^11 in the brain alone), there's a lot of repetition
("make a million of these, and a million of *these*", etc.)
V W X Y Z... I'll go third. X is for xenophobic...
X. Have you ever been, or do you plan to be adbucted by beings from
another planet?
W. Have you ever spoken Welsh, or any other language that is harmful
to the human tongue?
Y. Have you ever kept a yak with intent to cause a breach of the peace?
why would an intelligent being want to continue living?
could find no reason, unless "dna override" or "protoplasmic propagation"
and still see no reason; but I'll hang around and see what happens.
"Pure reason does not motivate." You keep on living because your
genes make you want to. That is, they wire your brain so you eat when
your blood sugar is low, etc. Neither the chicken nor the egg is
primal, but rather the genes that make them both as a mechanism for
propagating themselves. "They have given up the cavilear freedom of
floating free in the seas; they live inside giant lumbering robots,
manipulating the world through tortuous, indirect means; they have
made us body and mind, and we are their survival machines."
It's kind of weird when you think about it.
Dale
