Future Science Series - The Mathematics of the Genetic Code with Ulrike Granögger
Future Science Series – The Mathematics of the Genetic Code with Ulrike Granögger
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Video Presentation – The Mathematics of the Genetic Code
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“It seems that the genetic code appeared as pure information like arithmetic….” ~ Vladimir shCherbak
By Ulrike Granögger
This new Solari Report for the Future Science Series will look at the arithmetical symmetry and mathematical syntax discovered in the universal genetic code, a discovery made mainly by Vladimir shCherbak (but also by other researchers) that will likely lead to a full reevaluation of the origin of life … provided, of course, that society and science care enough to figure out the consequences.
The genetic code (the biological mechanism of translating genetic information into proteins for the functioning of life) is universal. That means that all life forms on Earth use the same code—the same machinery of assigning a triplet of nucleotides (a codon) to an amino acid.
The particular set of 20 amino acids with their specific properties (pH, polarity, charge, molecular mass, etc.) is one among an astronomical number of possible genetic codes that nature could have developed—one among some 10 to the power of 83 (1083) arbitrary codes (a number higher than the estimated number of particles in the universe). Therefore, the probability for it to emerge within a single evolutionary step is almost zero (Diego L. Gonzalez). Instead, we must assume it emerged through many steps of selection and mutation to finally arrive at the “fittest” set of triplets for the manufacture and maintenance of a vast number of organisms. After all, the code would have had to be in place already at the time of the very earliest life forms—or our “last universal common ancestor” (LUCA)—since we know from modern genetic medicine how even a tiny mutation in a gene can have devastating effects on the whole organism.
There is only one problem. Given the unimaginable number of possible amino acid combinations, there was not enough time on Earth for random mutations to arrive at today’s code, which is the same as it was at the time of the emergence of the first life forms some four billion years ago.
So maybe it developed elsewhere? The universe has more time available than just “Mother Earth.” Possibly. In a combination of abiogenesis and panspermia, the code may have assembled in less time and in distributed spaces, and the finding together of these pieces on our planet happens to work in one of the best possible manners.
In such a view, one will not expect the code to develop internal structures of symmetry and organization. It was a lucky strike, but to bring about internal self-referential organization and mathematical symmetry is again a question of how much evolutionary time is available for such a combinatorial process.
And yet, breathtaking symmetry and numerical structures have been found in the genetic code—defying all odds of random evolution and leaving us with the profound question: “Where does the information come from?”
In Let’s Go to the Movies, check out The Information Enigma. (Dr. Stephen C. Meyer)
It’s gratifying to hear that science can now verify what many thinkers intuited without the aid of such elaborate proofs. For me it was a simple realization that the given age of U was too brief to allow all the possible missteps that would waste time in bringing about life in the first place, much less bringing about the myriad of life forms that have been. Secondly, for intelligence to be manifest, its ingredients must have been present whenever and however The Origin occurred. It is clear that intelligence is persistent merely by examination of the evidence all around us.
I am glad to have conquered this particular conundrum on my own, in the same methodology I might have used to overcome the benign falsehood of Santa Claus and the more pernicious racial animuses that our society indoctrinated us with. Simple, but methodical logic.
Our current differences over the styling of oppression all around us is similarly susceptible to patient consideration. Political confusion is the result of introducing gibberish, as the video calls it, into problem-solving. Whether fake news, balderdash or simple deceit, it is quickly too much data to be analyzed, particularly if the fundamental error of assuming good intentions is made. The prescription for clear thinking is the forgoing of idle or partisan rhetoric and the consideration of the position, i.e. the information held by opposing entities. This is actually a subset of The Golden Rule. If I make a political choice, it is respective of the available ones, not of my wishes for their availability. I must then have faith that the losing side will make adjustments to improve its position, and that is based on my assessment that even my opponents are rational entities–products of an intelligent universal construct.
PS, the tendency of Intelligent Universe to produce stable, persistent forms is IPSO FACTO evidence of the inherent intelligence of conservatism, whereas we have been confounded by a myth of Evolution having been raised to the status of doctrine. More gibberish.
How do we access the information held by opposing entities, especially when those entities are deceitful and fraudulently misrepresent the information?
If none of the political choices available is attractive, do we not have the option to create/make available new ones?
To the second question, if your position allows you to create an alternative, by all means do it. Just don’t waste time on quixotic attempts without the requisite means.
You don’t necessarily access it, but you do two things:
1) imagine their position
2) imagine what you’d do if you were in that position.
That’s essentially The Golden Rule, expanded.
It’s gratifying to hear that science can now verify what many thinkers intuited without the aid of such elaborate proofs. For me it was a simple realization that the given age of U was too brief to allow all the possible missteps that would waste time in bringing about life in the first place, much less bringing about the myriad of life forms that have been. Secondly, for intelligence to be manifest, its ingredients must have been present whenever and however The Origin occurred. It is clear that intelligence is persistent merely by examination of the evidence all around us.
I am glad to have conquered this particular conundrum on my own, in the same methodology I might have used to overcome the benign falsehood of Santa Claus and the more pernicious racial animuses that our society indoctrinated us with. Simple, but methodical logic.
Our current differences over the styling of oppression all around us is similarly susceptible to patient consideration. Political confusion is the result of introducing gibberish, as the video calls it, into problem-solving. Whether fake news, balderdash or simple deceit, it is quickly too much data to be analyzed, particularly if the fundamental error of assuming good intentions is made. The prescription for clear thinking is the forgoing of idle or partisan rhetoric and the consideration of the position, i.e. the information held by opposing entities. This is actually a subset of The Golden Rule. If I make a political choice, it is respective of the available ones, not of my wishes for their availability. I must then have faith that the losing side will make adjustments to improve its position, and that is based on my assessment that even my opponents are rational entities–products of an intelligent universal construct.
PS, the tendency of Intelligent Universe to produce stable, persistent forms is IPSO FACTO evidence of the inherent intelligence of conservatism, whereas we have been confounded by a myth of Evolution having been raised to the status of doctrine. More gibberish.
How do we access the information held by opposing entities, especially when those entities are deceitful and fraudulently misrepresent the information?
If none of the political choices available is attractive, do we not have the option to create/make available new ones?
To the second question, if your position allows you to create an alternative, by all means do it. Just don’t waste time on quixotic attempts without the requisite means.
You don’t necessarily access it, but you do two things:
1) imagine their position
2) imagine what you’d do if you were in that position.
That’s essentially The Golden Rule, expanded.
no idea how information originates. tendency toward order is probably a synergy between various life forms and the morphic field. see http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ quote “When human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random systems may change. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. But when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of RNGs becomes subtly structured. We calculate one in a trillion odds that the effect is due to chance. The evidence suggests an emerging noosphere or the unifying field of consciousness”