[sudo-discuss] Hackers unite

[Cere Misc]

Word Edward.  I don't know what's "true" about why we are the way we are
but there is a lot science cannot reducibly test and conclude.


> -- I have very little confidence in this kind of research.  Modern science
> denies the existence of spirit, or @ least considers it not a subject for
> science, & so ignores it, which usually amounts to denying it. OTOH,
> emotional/spiritual experiences do have physical effects, so science, in
> its prejudice, concludes that these physical signs are "the cause." Rupert
> Sheldrake is the only guy I know of who has figgered this out, w/ the
> possible exception of Deepak Chopra. The result is a dead end that does a
> *lot* of damage. One recent example of progress: British researchers (I
> think) found that rat pups inherited conditioned fear: specifically: they
> did a "Pavlov's dog" number w/ rose water & electric shocks so that rats
> got scared of the smell of rose water. Then they bred then, and found that
> the children were scared of it before they had any training. This torpedoes
> a sacred tenet of centuries' standing: acquired characteristics cannot be
> inherited. But recent advances in instrumentation have shown that
> experiences can generate molecules in the cell that turn off genes, & @
> least some of these molecules can stay attached when the sperm or egg cells
> split their DNA (instrument technology is just beginning to reveal this).
> It's called "epigenetic inheritance."
>
>    The article came out in "Lancet" a few months ago, as I recall.
>
> Nil Carborundum Illegitemi,
> Ed Rippy
>
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