Re: A biological singularity?

John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:29:07 -0400

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CurtAdams@aol.com Wrote:

>It's not a "higher level code" or anything like that. The similarity
>between different high-level developmental control genes just reflects
>the extreme difficulty of changing anything essential to the organism's
>survival.

I don't understand your distinction. it seems to me that if that's not a high level code it is most certainly something like that.

>I hope Gehring didn't claim to have found an abstract high level
>language in the genome, because he didn't.

I don't know if he spelled it out but I do know that Freeman Dyson made exactly that claim about Gehring's work.

> Anyway, it's not the highly conserved genes that differentiate
> us from the chimp - they don't distinguish us from anything.

Huh?

John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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