Comments on: everything does everything and is produced everywhere. http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/everything-does-everything-and-is-produced-everywhere/ The story and conversation continue here. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:26:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anne Aspler http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/everything-does-everything-and-is-produced-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Anne Aspler Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:40:48 +0000 http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/?p=495#comment-122 Amazing. One thing that always fascinated me about ‘cell destiny’ was programmed cell death. The idea of a definitive threshold where a cell would choose to activate its own demise. Evolutionarily, it seems natural –selfless almost—to recognize when one’s own existence was no longer contributing to the organism as a whole. We all have an intuition that new beginnings often start with a needed, but sometimes painful, ending. No cell’s destiny is certain...but perhaps the prospect of a ‘pre-programmed’ ending impedes the imagination of even the most pluripotent. Maybe it shouldn’t. Amazing. One thing that always fascinated me about ‘cell destiny’ was programmed cell death. The idea of a definitive threshold where a cell would choose to activate its own demise. Evolutionarily, it seems natural –selfless almost—to recognize when one’s own existence was no longer contributing to the organism as a whole. We all have an intuition that new beginnings often start with a needed, but sometimes painful, ending.

No cell’s destiny is certain…but perhaps the prospect of a ‘pre-programmed’ ending impedes the imagination of even the most pluripotent. Maybe it shouldn’t.

]]> By: Matt thompson http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/everything-does-everything-and-is-produced-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Matt thompson Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:17 +0000 http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/?p=495#comment-121 Beautiful. And important. Ecology and medicine are the most important lenses or paradigms of the 21st century. But only if we see them the way you describe, and not as genetic destiny, reducing people to "meat-bots" or automatons. Our soul may me made of DNA and hormones and soup - but that doesn't make it any less of a soul. Beautiful. And important. Ecology and medicine are the most important lenses or paradigms of the 21st century. But only if we see them the way you describe, and not as genetic destiny, reducing people to “meat-bots” or automatons. Our soul may me made of DNA and hormones and soup – but that doesn’t make it any less of a soul.

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