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Title: The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle
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URL Source: http://www.hofmann.org/papers/Human%20Genome%20-Cosmic%20Joke.html
Published: Oct 7, 2006
Author: Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Post Date: 2006-10-07 09:37:10 by gengis gandhi
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The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. There is a "thing" I refer to as Universe Humor, others may refer to it as a Cosmic Joke. There have been times in all of our lives when we thought we knew exactly how some event or incident was going to turn out. We could be so convinced that we "knew" what was going to happen, that we would have bet the family farm and the kitchen sink on the outcome of the event. It is at moments like this, when the Universe surprises us by taking a left turn instead of a right. While in most cases such a turn of events may evoke anger, disappointment or disillusion, I usually respond by shaking my head in profound awe of the perverse nature of Universe Humor. Here I thought I knew exactly how things would turn out and then find myself surprised, the wind knocked out of me. In wonder, I must rethink and reconsider the beliefs I held that led me to my faulty conclusion. When Universe Humor hits an individual, recognition of their astonishing lack of awareness may provoke a profound change in their life. On an individual level, each must reconsider their own beliefs in order to accommodate the surprising observations. In contrast, the course of human history is radically altered when Universe Humor undermines a "core belief" that is part of the fabric of the entire society. Consider how the course of human history changed when the belief that the world was flat was challenged by the circumnavigation of the globe? In 1893, the chairman of physics at Harvard University warned students that there was no more need for additional PhD33;s in the field of physics. He boasted that science had established the fact that the universe was a matter machine, comprised of physical, indivisible atoms that fully obeyed the laws of Newtonian Mechanics. Since all the descriptive laws of physics were "known," the future of physics would be relegated to making finer and finer measurements. Two years later, the Newtonian concept of a matter-only universe was toppled by the discovery of subatomic particles, X-rays and radioactivity. Within ten years, physicists had to discard their fundamental belief in a material universe for it was recognized that the universe was actually made of energy whose mechanics obeyed the laws of Quantum Physics. That little piece of Universe Humor profoundly altered the course of civilization, taking us from steam engines to rocket ships, from telegraphs to computers. Well33;the cosmic prankster has struck again! As it has done a few times in the past, this expression of Universe Humor upends a foundational basic belief held by conventional science. The joke is embodied in the results of The Human Genome Project. In all the hoopla over the sequencing of the human genetic code and being got caught up in the brilliant technological feat, we have not focused on the actual "meaning" of the results. One of the most important and fundamental core beliefs in conventional biology is that the traits and character of organisms are "controlled" by their genes. This belief is couched in the concept of genetic determinacy, the conventional dogma provided in virtually every textbook and biology course. How do genes manage to "control" life? It is based upon the concept that genes are self-emergent, meaning that they are able to "turn themselves on and off." Self-actualizing genes would provide for computer-like programs that would control organismal structure and function. Accordingly, our belief in genetic determinacy implies that "complexity" (evolutionary stature) of an organism would be proportional to the number of genes it possessed. Before the Human genome Project was underway, scientists had estimated that human complexity would necessitate a genome in excess of 100,000 genes. Genes are primarily blueprints encoding the chemical structure of proteins, the molecular "parts" that comprise the cell. It was thought that there was one gene to code for each of the 70,000 to 90,000 proteins that make up our bodies. In addition to protein-coding genes, the cell contains genes that determine the character of an organism by "controlling" the activity of other genes. Genes that "program" the expression of other genes are called regulatory genes. Regulatory genes encode information about complex physical patterns that provide for specific anatomies, which represent the structures that characterize each cell type (muscle versus bone) or organism (a chimp from a human). In addition, a subset of regulatory genes is associated with the "control" of specific behavioral patterns. Regulatory genes orchestrate the activity of a large numbers genes whose actions collectively contribute to the expression of such traits as awareness, emotion, and intelligence. It was estimated that there were more than 30,000 regulatory genes in the human genome. In considering the minimal number of genes needed to make a human: we would start with a base number of over 70,000 genes, one for each of the over 70,000 proteins found in a human. Then we include the number of regulatory genes needed to provide for the complexity of patterns expressed in our anatomy, physiology and behavior. Lets round-off the number of human genes to a total of an even 100,000, by including a minimalist number of 30,000 regulatory genes. Ready for the Cosmic Joke? The results of the Genome project reveal that there are only about 34,000 genes in the human genome. Two thirds of the anticipated genes do not exist! How can we account for the complexity of a genetically-controlled human when there are not even enough genes to code just for the proteins? More humiliating to the dogma of our belief in genetic determinacy is the fact that there is not much difference in the total number of genes found in humans and those found in primitive organisms populating the planet. Recently, biologists completed mapping the genomes of two of the most studied animal models in genetic research, the fruit fly and a microscopic roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans). The primitive Caenorhabditis worm serves as a perfect model to study the role of genes in development and behavior. This rapidly growing and reproducing primitive organism has a precisely patterned body comprised of exactly 969 cells, a simple brain of about 302 ordered cells, it expresses a unique repertoire of behaviors, and most importantly, it is amenable to genetic experimentation. The Caenorhabditis genome is comprised of over 18,000 genes. The 50+ trillion-celled human body has a genome with only 15,000 more genes than the lowly, spineless, microscopic roundworm. Obviously, the complexity of organisms is not reflected in the complexity of its genes. For example the fruit fly genome was recently defined to consist of 13,000 genes. The eye of the fruit fly is comprised of more cells than are found in the entire Caenorhabditis worm. Profoundly more complex in structure and behavior than the microscopic roundworm, the fruit fly has 5000 fewer genes!! The Human Genome Project was a global effort dedicated to deciphering the human genetic code. It was thought the completed human blueprint would provide science with all the necessary information to "cure" all of mankind33;s ills. It was further assumed that an awareness of the human genetic code mechanism would enable scientists to create a Mozart or another Einstein. The "failure" of the genome results to conform to our expectations reveals that our expectations of how biology "works" are clearly based upon incorrect assumptions or information. Our "belief" in the concept of genetic determinism is fundamentally33;flawed! We can not truly attribute the character of our lives to be the consequence of genetic "programming." The genome results force us to reconsider the question: "From whence do we acquire our biological complexity?" In a commentary on the surprising results of the Human Genome study, David Baltimore, one of the world33;s most prominent geneticists and Nobel prize winner, addressed this issue of complexity: "But unless the human genome contains a lot of genes that are opaque to our computers, it is clear that we do not gain our undoubted complexity over worms and plants by using more genes. Understanding what does give us our complexity33;our enormous behavioral repertoire, ability to produce conscious action, remarkable physical coordination, precisely tuned alterations in response to external variations of the environment, learning, memory33;need I go on?33;remains a challenge for the future." (Nature 409:816, 2001) Scientists have continuously touted that our biological fates are written in our genes. In the face of that belief, the Universe humors us with a cosmic joke: The "control" of life is not in the genes. Of course the most interesting consequence of the project33;s results is that we must now face that "challenge for the future" Baltimore alluded to. What does "control" our biology, if not the genes? Over the last number of years, science and the press33; emphasis on the "power" of genes has overshadowed the brilliant work of many biologists that reveal a radically different understanding concerning organismal expression. Emerging at the cutting edge of cell science is the recognition that the environment, and more specifically, our perception of the environment, directly controls our behavior and gene activity. The molecular mechanisms by which animals, from single cells to humans, respond to environmental stimuli and activate appropriate physiological and behavioral responses have recently been identified. Cells utilize these mechanisms in order to dynamically "adapt" their structure and function to accommodate ever-changing environmental demands. The process of adaptation is mediated by the cell membrane (the skin of the cell), which serves as the equivalent of the cell33;s "brain." Cell membranes recognize environmental "signals" through the activity of receptor proteins. Receptors recognize both physical (e.g., chemicals, ions) and energetic (e.g., electromagnetic, scalar forces) signals. Environmental signals "activate" receptor proteins causing them to bind with complementary effector proteins. Effector proteins are "switches" that control the cell33;s behavior. Receptor-effector proteins provide the cell with awareness through physical sensation. By strict definition, these membrane protein complexes represent molecular units of perception. These membrane perception molecules also control gene transcription (the turning on and off of gene programs) and have recently been linked to adaptive mutations (genetic alterations that rewrite the DNA code in response to stress). The cell membrane is a structural and functional homologue (equivalent) of a computer chip, while the nucleus represents a read-write hard disk loaded with genetic programs. Organismal evolution, resulting from increasing the number of membrane perception units, would be modeled using fractal geometry. Reiterated fractal patterns enable a cross-referencing of structure and function among three levels of biological organization: the cell, the multicellular organism and societal evolution. Through fractal mathematics we are provided with valuable insight into the past and future of evolution. The environment, through the act of perception, controls behavior, gene activity and even the rewriting of the genetic code. Cells "learn" (evolve) by creating new perception proteins in response to novel environmental experiences. "Learned" perceptions, especially those derived from indirect experiences (e.g., parental, peer and academic education), may be based upon incorrect information or faulty interpretations. Since they may or may not be "true," perceptions are in reality33;beliefs! Our new scientific knowledge is returning to an ancient awareness of the power of belief. Beliefs are indeed powerful33;whether they are true or false. While we have always heard of the "power of positive thinking," the problem is negative thinking is just as powerful, though in the "opposite" direction. Problems encountered in health and in the unfolding of our lives are generally connected to the "misperceptions" acquired in our learning experiences. The wonderful part of the story is that perceptions can be relearned! We can reshape our lives in retraining our consciousness. This is a reflection of the ageless wisdom that has been passed down to us and is now being recognized in cellular biology An understanding of the newly described cell-control mechanisms will cause as profound a shift in biological belief as the quantum revolution caused in physics. The strength of the emerging new biological model is that it unifies the basic philosophies of conventional medicine, complementary medicine and spiritual healing.
Poster Comment: and so one can easily understand the illuminati's preoccupation with shaping our beliefs via religions, media and government, schooling, etc. if a belief causes dependence on power based structures, and a minimization of personal power in general, one can rest assured this belief is a manufactured creation of the existing power structure in order to preserve its own power by limiting the power of those it seeks to control. a corollary to this would be that one only would seek to limit the power of a thing that has the potentiality of power, that has the potentiality to rise up and remove or, worse yet, make irrelevant existing power agglomerating entities. put another way, one never seeks to build fences around boulders. if there is an attempt to confine and reduce the power of the individual, it must only occur because such an individual has the potential to make null and void those who would seed to control him. 'as a man thinketh, so is he'...very true, but on the deepest level. it is also worthwile to realize that this thing we are calling science, is not science. it is a belief system management tool. we are implicitly told what can or cannot exist, according to 'discoveries' that are often, usually, proved wrong or at least found out to be entirely different than originally presented. these beliefs are always the foundations of 'science', we see them as axiomatic and do not question them. in fact, we are taught to riducle anything that falls ouside their umbrella. so, newtonian physics, the law of conservation of energy, the primacy of existence vs. consciousness, etc, are the main tools that are used to shape our reality. but, quantuum physics has fairly destroyed newtonian physics and the primacy of existence over consciousness, and various discoveries have now called into question the 'law' of conservation of energy. and just last week, scientists reported being able to teleport light and matter, which, as we all have been told, is 'impossible'. apparently, sci fi gigs like star trek are more correct in discovering the nature of reality than science itself, which would once again be a cosmic joke. if i could say anything with certainty, it is that the organizing creative force loves irony.
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To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. ~Don Juan Matos, Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda The Illuminati doesn't exist, and Casteneda was a conman and a fraud who wrote fiction. Having said that, the article is exactly right in how our genes are activated by what we perceive.
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire (1694-1778)
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To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. ~Don Juan Matos, Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Casteneda Clearly, then, it is the culture of chimpanzees that prevents them from speaking.
Like this old Jewish joke: How old are your children Ma'm? The doctor's 4, and the lawyer's 2.
In considering the minimal number of genes needed to make a human: we would start with a base number of over 70,000 genes, one for each of the over 70,000 proteins found in a human. Then we include the number of regulatory genes needed to provide for the complexity of patterns expressed in our anatomy, physiology and behavior. Lets round-off the number of human genes to a total of an even 100,000, by including a minimalist number of 30,000 regulatory genes. Ready for the Cosmic Joke? The results of the Genome project reveal that there are only about 34,000 genes in the human genome. Two thirds of the anticipated genes do not exist! How can we account for the complexity of a genetically-controlled human when there are not even enough genes to code just for the proteins? More humiliating to the dogma of our belief in genetic determinacy is the fact that there is not much difference in the total number of genes found in humans and those found in primitive organisms populating the planet.......... The Human Genome Project was a global effort dedicated to deciphering the human genetic code. It was thought the completed human blueprint would provide science with all the necessary information to "cure" all of mankind33;s ills. It was further assumed that an awareness of the human genetic code mechanism would enable scientists to create a Mozart or another Einstein. The "failure" of the genome results to conform to our expectations reveals that our expectations of how biology "works" are clearly based upon incorrect assumptions or information. Our "belief" in the concept of genetic determinism is fundamentally33;flawed! We can not truly attribute the character of our lives to be the consequence of genetic "programming." The genome results force us to reconsider the question: "From whence do we acquire our biological complexity?" In a commentary on the surprising results of the Human Genome study, David Baltimore, one of the world33;s most prominent geneticists and Nobel prize winner, addressed this issue of complexity: "But unless the human genome contains a lot of genes that are opaque to our computers, it is clear that we do not gain our undoubted complexity over worms and plants by using more genes. Understanding what does give us our complexity33;our enormous behavioral repertoire, ability to produce conscious action, remarkable physical coordination, precisely tuned alterations in response to external variations of the environment, learning, memory33;need I go on?33;remains a challenge for the future." (Nature 409:816, 2001) Scientists have continuously touted that our biological fates are written in our genes. In the face of that belief, the Universe humors us with a cosmic joke: The "control" of life is not in the genes. Of course the most interesting consequence of the project33;s results is that we must now face that "challenge for the future" Baltimore alluded to. What does "control" our biology, if not the genes? ............... Some time back, Robert Reich said that the battle of the Twenty-First Century would be between people of science and people of faith [the latter considered by the PTB as worse than terrorists, who they see in their mirrors every day]. So the battle is between people whose faith is in science and people whose faith is in God. Their faith/RELIGION is funded by taxpayers, while ours is hounded, taxed, and under constant attack. WorldNetDaily: Robert Reich: God worse than terrorism FAITH UNDER FIRE Robert Reich: God worse than terrorism ... But Ponnuru doesn't think most people will jump on Reich's bandwagon. ... http://www .worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39321 I ran across a little something today, which shows the depravity the people of science will sink to in their battle to destroy faith, and people of faith: ".........- 1909-13: the buildup to World War I - "....John D. Rockefeller created the family-run {{Rockefeller Foundation,}} in parallel with the birth of the British-inspired Federal Reserve, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1909-13 and subsequent years, Rockefeller transferred blocs of the family-owned Standard Oil Co. worth more than $300 million to the account of the foundation under its trustees who were family members, and their employees. Thus was established a global instrument for radical social change, using American money and British strategy...... - 1920s: the pre-Hitler era in Germany - The Rockefeller Foundation poured money into the occupied German republic for a medical specialty known as {psychiatric genetics.} This field applied to psychiatry the concepts of eugenics (otherwise known as race purification, race hygiene, or race betterment) developed in London's Galton Laboratory and its offshoot Eugenics Societies in England and America. The Rockefeller Foundation created, and foundation executives thenceforth continuously directed, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (before Rockefeller sponsorship it was known as the Kraepelin Institute), and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity. The Rockefellers' chief in both these institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist {{Ernst Ru@audin,}} his prote@aage@aas, Rockefeller functionaries {{Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer}} and {{Franz J. Kallmann.}}........ [lots of info in-between....] occupied Poland - In 1943, Otmar Verschuer's assistant Josef Mengele was made medical commandant of Auschwitz. As wartime director of Rockefeller's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Verschuer secured funds for Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz from the German Research council. Verschuer wrote a progress report to the Council: ``My co-researcher in this research is my assistant, the anthropologist and physician Mengele. He is serving as Hauptstu@aurmfu@auhrer and camp doctor in the concentration camp Auschwitz.... With the permission of the Reichsfu@auhrer SS Himmler, anthropological research is being undertaken on the various racial groups in the concentration camps and blood samples will be sent to my laboratory for investigation.'' Mengele prowled the railroad cars coming into Auschwitz, looking for twin children--a favorite research subject of Frankenstein-type psychiatric geneticists. On arrival at Mengele's experimental station, twins filled out ``a detailed questionnaire from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.'' There were daily drawings of blood for Verschuer's ``specific protein'' research. Needles were injected into eyes for work on eye color. There were experimental blood transfusions and experimental infections. Organs and limbs were removed, sometimes without anesthetics. Sex changes were attempted. Females were sterilized, males were castrated. Thousands were murdered, and their organs, eyeballs, heads, and limbs were sent to Verschuer and the Rockefeller group at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. After the war, Mengele was a famous target of Nazi-hunters pursuing him to South America. But his boss, Verschuer, was regarded in a different light: He was a high-level Rockefeller operative. In 1946, Verschuer wrote to the Bureau of Human Heredity in London, asking for help in continuing his ``scientific research. '' In 1947, the Bureau of Human Heredity moved from London to Copenhagen, and Verschuer moved to Denmark to join the British group there. The new Danish building for this group was erected with Rockefeller money. The first International Congress in Human Genetics following World War II was held at this Danish institute in 1956. Dr. Kallmann helped save Verschuer by testifying at his denazification proceedings. Kallmann, a director of the American Eugenics Society, became an icon at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, which remains to this day a nest of the Eugenics Society. With Verschuer and **** other Nazi notables, **** Dr. Kallmann also created the American Society of Human Genetics, which organized the **** ``Human Genome Project''--a current $3 billion physical multiculturalism effort....... British psychiatry: from eugenics to assassination by Anton Chaitkin http://www.heliophobe.com/mkultra.h tm [for the assassination angle, see the recent school shootings: http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=36792&Disp=31#C31 ] So their little exercise in futility should not be looked on as a joke, but as a long-drawn-out war crime, IMO, and if they are going to be hunting down "holocaust-deniers", they should be hunting down the holocaust perpetrators as well, and they might start with the rats-nest of the Human Genome Project. At the very least, they should have to return all the monies taxpayers had to pay them to practice their "religion", that seeks to create a master race based on the murder of the less "worthy".
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More humiliating to the dogma of our belief in genetic determinacy is the fact that there is not much difference in the total number of genes found in humans and those found in primitive organisms populating the planet.
I don't feel quite right tdaoy. I feel like my expectations are being managed.
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'as a man thinketh, so is he'...very true, but on the deepest level.
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. It was estimated that there were more than 30,000 regulatory genes in the human genome.
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