Life's Drive And Purpose, Choice Of Our Life's Purpose Is OURS

Dude. It's all about procreation... everything else is fluff.

With that... Will attempt procreation again and again and again, until we have success, as part of the experimental review of your topic, "Life's Drive and Purpose"....

(I will just keep forgetting that I am vasectomy safe) and continue on in the name of science!)


WHOO HOOOOOOOOOO

MM

Vasectomy FTW

I don't like the idea of a vasectomy. I think it's just easier to be gay.

Oh, hey! there is nothing in the human experience quite like a doctor coming at you with a needle to the nutz. Once you get past the needle being inserted into your nutsack, you then experience him/her cutting you open, and removing this tubular structure and showing it to you to reinforce the fact that you are not going to be having kids anytime soon.

Nothing quite like it....

However, I find women much more exciting and stimlulating than men , so easy is relative...


And I will never care to experience that attack on the nutz again!


MM

Yeah, I didn't get that experience, they gave me a sedative and I fell asleep. Woke up with an ice pack, and it was all good.

Agreed. You kind of have to have an attraction for the same gender before you can be gay... And besides, I still have a wife, so playing for the other team isn't a realistic option...

RE: You’re more and more falling into the “selfish gene” fallacy-trap!


Dov Henis, just to inform you that late yesterday (Friday) I submitted a comment to your recent posting in NatureUK above here: http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=357798 .

My comment is still awaiting the moderator’s approval; but a copy of which is presented below for your preview:

Thank you all for your kind attention and cooperation in this matter. Happy reading, scrutinizing, introspecting, and enlightening!

Best wishes, Mong 7/19/8usct1:18p; author Decoding Scientism (work in progress), Gods, Genes, Conscience (January 2006), and Gods, Genes, Conscience: Global Dialogues Now (February 2006); a retired cancer biomedical research pioneer (1970s-80s) turned critical reader-independent modern philosopher of ME (Mind & Emotion, including morality & ethics), pursuing Epistemology of Self (& other selves) empirically as a rekindled post-midlife passion and profession, whose works are based on the current advances in interdisciplinary sciences and integrative psychology of Science and Religion worldwide; ethically, morally; metacognitively, and objectively—blogging avidly since February 2006!

Life, genes, genomes, E PUR SI MUOVERA

Dear Mong H Tan,

Thank you for your kind note, and appreciation of your comment.

I confess, embarassingly, that:

- I have neither read nor know anything about Dawkins and/or the "selfish gene" except the name and term.

- I do not understand what a "pseudo-Darwinist theory" is.

I thank you, again, for your kind concern, but I do not feel that I am faling into anything.

My postulates re the nature of life, genes, genomes and organisms are anchored very well in each of the numerous scientifically critical comments that I have been posting during the last ten years.

I am convinced that my above uniquely commonsensible, firmly scientific, conceptions will be eventually widely adopted.


Dov Henis

PS: Sincerely, it does'nt bother me and I don't care if, when and/or by whom, my conceptions will be adopted.
E PUR SI MUOVERA!
DH

I just noticed a confusing spelling mistake :

The sentence in the 2nd line above: "The cells' membranes are multi-functional ORGANISMS", was meant and should have been "The cells' membranes are multi-functional ORGANS" !

Dov Henis

This post has been edited by HenisDov on Jul 20 2008, 03:21 AM

Prion Proteins, 2008


I. The two faces of prion proteins

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id..._prion_proteins

- "Scientists are learning more about the protein behind mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, including how to interfere with the proteins' production in the brains of mice. "

- "It’s also a mystery how prions replicate — they seem to do it without DNA — and they are difficult to kill."


II. At Genesis replicating RNA-related oligomers replicated without DNA!

IMO there is a definite, even if yet vaguely understood, relationship between CJ and Life Genesis phenomena parallel to the likewise relationship between black-holes and biosphere phenomena.

Black-holes and Biosphere(s?) are both phenomena of constrained energy pockets within a universe of expanding energy.

CJ and Life Genesis are both phenomena of serendipitous occurrence of favourable energy potential, in the case of life genesis between incoming sun's radiation and RNA-related oligomers, and in CJ proteins replication between specific protein-forming-enzymes and enzymes-protein complexes:


III. Prions, Normal and Pathogenic.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLB..._Q--?cq=1&p=125

(A) Aug 15, 2004 DH, biologicalEvolution forum.

Re Scientific American July 2004, "Detecting Mad Cow Disease", SB Prusiner.

Genesis and replication modes of pathogenic prions curiously connote initial genesis and evolution of life, maybe from an RNA-related conformation. In both cases the process-enabling-moving circumstances are presence of the precursors of the Bingo Conformation plus a favorable energy balance.

Is it probable/possible, therefore, that the switch from normal to pathogenic prions is enabled and moved by a replacement of a component amino-acid such as tryptophane/niacin ?

(B) Aug 28, 2004 DH, biologicalEvolution forum.

The subject intrigues me because back in the early '50s I effected encephalomyelitis in fowls by inadequate levels of niacin or tryptophane and found that the minimal required level of these amino acids for the type of fowl was related to the physiology/weight/activity characteristics of the different fowl types.

My gut feeling (obviously not experimental evidence) is that PrPc to PrPSc conversion is indeed a "posttranslational conversion", initiated and maintained by a replacement of an amino acid, initiated and chain-reacting due to an energetically effected equation situation, on one side the PrPc precursors and on the other side the precipitating PrPSc.

Now I just read (The Scientist) updated reports that purified PrPSc do not replicate and that indeed various PrPSc's differ in amino acid component(s) .

Therefore it is required now to learn if tagged PrPc shows up in the PrPSc, or not, for finding if the PrPSc is formed from PrPc, or if it is formed instead of and to the exclusion of PrPc.

Also these data enhance the probability that the pathogenic PrPSc's include an adjunct "agent", lost upon PrPSc purification, that directs the preferred formation of PrPSc. end.

Dov Henis

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1

Bigger brains go with more variety in body size?

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id...ns_for_a_change

"Outsized brains may have sped up evolution of body size in birds" ?

NO, NO, NO.

What YES?

YES More variety in body size goes with bigger brain!

Evolution of body size variety has been bringing about bigger sized brain!

A small difference...

Again and again and again :

It is not physiological evolution that drives culture, which is modes of life and phenotypic varieties.

It is culture that drives physiological evolution. Variety of modes of life brings about also bigger size brain...the individuals face new challenges...


Dov Henis
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1

Why Music Engulfs-Touches Us

(Nov 11, 2005 DH,biologicalEvolution forum)

Music is a human cultural-artifactual elaboration of creatures' vocal communication which is an extension-elaboration of >24 wks-old in-womb fetus' and of newborns' intimate safe/coddle/sooth experiences. Both 'touch' and 'hear' senses are founded on mechanical sensing processes involving in-cell ions leakage forming electrical action potentials interpreted neurologically.

I suggest/conjecture that the same neurological constellation may be handling both 'touch' and 'hear' senses, being of commom mechanisms and differing essentially only in switch-on modes, and that this evolves in all vocal creatures in conjunction with in-womb safety, followed with baby codling/handling and vocal soothing/communicating, and later also with intimate emotional implications. Hence music has 'engulfing-touching-emotional' connotation and personal music orientation has also childhood-ethnic rootings.

Dov Henis

Come On, Upgrade To 21st Century Comprehension!

A.
"Protein links metabolism and circadian rhythms"

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id...rcadian_rhythms

"Scientists have known for ages that metabolism is tied to the body's daily rhythms. Two new studies suggest how."

"body rhythms are governed by molecular clocks that take about a day to complete a full cycle, hence the name circadian clock. The clocks are composed of proteins whose concentrations or levels of activity rise and fall like the tide."


B. The "clocks are composed of proteins"...

See "Evolution Of Sleep?"

Re http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/200...s-swh011108.php

Again and again. The need of organisms for sleep has not "evolved".

It is instilled in the 3rd-stratum organisms, the mono-cell and multi-cell organisms, via the innate characteristics of their 1st-stratum organisms, the genes, members of their genome commune, the 2nd stratum organisms.

Genes are the constitutional prime-base-organisms. Yes, genes are organisms, members of their genome commune, and a "biological clock" is an innate characteristics of genes.

Please look at the brief "Origin Of Circadian Rhythm", at

http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtop...35&#entry301299

or at

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLB..._Q--?cq=1&p=230


Dov Henis

Lifeness Of Genes-Genomes Rejected By A Science Guild?!

Gratified and proud to note that today I received three comment's rejection notices from 'biomedcentral.com'.

BMC received and published several of my earlier comments. However, these rejected comments, heaven forfend, included reference to genes and genomes as 'living organisms'.

The rejection was not explained...

Seems that these ideas are too daring and provocative to deserve/warrant an explanation...


Dov Henis
E PUR SI MUOVERA

* or too sacrilegious...

Dov

Basic Study Of Life Ceased In The 21st Century -
One Of Adverse Effects Of Present Technology Culture

A. From "Societal Implications Of Science And Technology Evolution"

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLB..._Q--?cq=1&p=419

"Basic, non-applied science, since the 18th century Enlightenment the banner of social and societal evolution out of entrenched traditional doctrines and values, has been abandoned and presently barely survives in few institutions. Enlightenment's inherent philosophy and attitudes in regards to individualism, universal human progress and the applications of reason have been pushed off the western culture highway by the ever rising flood of values, attitudes and texture of life of the technology era."

IMO this sad state of affairs is most obvious and prominent in the field of basic life science.


B. Life study in the 20th century slowed to halt by "scientists guilds"

- Guild: an association of people with similar interests or pursuits; especially : a medieval association of merchants or craftsmen.

I posit that the defacto slow-to-halt of the basic study of life in the 20th century is a consequence of the authoritative power handed by the public at large to scientists guilds, coupled with the fact that the present scientific guilds are indeed conserved replicas of medieval guild associations, coupled with their modus operandi.

People think that in the scientists guilds operational and editorial decisions are made on purely scientific grounds...


C. A fresh authoritative scientific organization needed

I suggest that an Enlightenment course of societal evolution matrixed on rational scientific grounds may become probable and possible only if and when a fresh authoritative scientific organization is established "by and for the people including scientists" in which scientists operate and make editorial decisions on scientific rather than on political grounds...


Dov Henis

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1