LIFE AND DEATH
Last Updated: 2nd April 2007
The Genetic Blueprint For Life.
Exactly what do i mean by that?
Well, it first helps if you understand a little about genetics.
Mostly, understand that 97% of the human genome contains functions that are entirely unknown to most people,
and this part of the human genome, called "Junk DNA" is usually discarded as being irrelevant to the
function of the human body.
Why people assume that almost the entire genome, 97% of it, has no function, i cannot hazard to guess.
Why people assume that only 3% of the genome has any function at all, i have no clue.
Me personally?
I think that evolution would have relegated this useless 97% of the genome to the garbage pile long ago.
So what does it do?
I think that "Junk DNA" contains the blueprint for the entire human body, encoded, like on a computer,
in a way that makes the location and function of every single cell in the human body available to anyone
capable of directly manipulating the human genome.
To me, the location and structure of the human arm, or eyeball, or heart, or liver, or whatever, is there,
available immediately to anyone who seriously takes a look, for all to see and modify to their hearts content.
Now, life and death.
To me, the idea of life is pretty simple, when you extrapolate from the genetic blueprint.
For example, i think of the genetic blueprint being kindof like a long piece of paper encoded with various
instructions for a big biological computer, and when you are born, one end of this piece of paper goes into
the computer, and the instructions begin being processed, one by one, then as you grow, this piece of paper
moves into the computer, and more instructions are processed, this being normal bodily ageing.
Eventually, the piece of paper runs out, and you die.
Why would the piece of paper run out?
Mostly because there is only a finite amount of space inside an individual cell to store the genetic blueprint.
I tend to think of the genetic information in the human body as being a bit like the "Operating System"
of a computer, the operating system of the human body.
Medicine is constantly looking for a magic protein or compound to cure this "Operating System" of it's bugs.
But, the trouble is, it's a bit like inserting a random bit of code into the computer operating system
and hoping that it will solve all the problems. It just doesn't work.
Instead, you first have to understand the code of the operating system, then write bugfixes.
So, what todo? If we run out of paper, surely we just replace the paper with some more coded instructions,
todo whatever we so choose, such as make the instructions run backwards, or Reverse Ageing in other words...
This is how i propose to cure death... make more instructions and continue to extend the blueprint for life.
This is how i propose to reverse ageing... make more instructions to extend the blueprint for life.