While reading Bruce Lipton’s, The Biology of Belief, he repeats over and over again that DNA is not the brains of the cell. That it’s the environment that really controls everything. Which got me thinking.
“What if DNA is the Long Term Memory of Biology?”
Our memories define us, define our characteristics and how we react in this world. It’s what makes us individuals, it’s how we act. Not a single one of us has the same memories.
Now, most of us have been inculcated with the ‘same’ memories. That’s how you can read the words I write. You have very very similar ‘memories’ of what what each word being read ‘means’. I am assuming that you don’t have that same memory for Swahili (for example) and hence can’t speak or read it.
Language is a kind of shared memory but even there, each of us has a ‘style’ and deeply individual way of communicating. The more I write these blog posts, nearly daily at the moment, the more I realize that I have a particular writing style. I like using the word ‘deep’, and phrases like ‘it seems’ come out very often.
If DNA is primarily, long term memory, and no doubt it does function as ‘biological memory’ and if it is less so ‘the brains of biology’, then we really do have a massive paradigm shift.
It means the ‘brains’, the true intelligence behind it all, the biosphere, nature, ecology, lies elsewhere.
As Lipton states, it’s in the ‘environment’ but,
what does that mean?
The environment is that which is ‘outside’ the cell, outside the body. It is the great everything within which we find ourselves. It is as physical as the cell or a body, it just isn’t limited in spacial dimensions or that easy to box into ‘functions’. It is all the fields of nature, the forces, it is space-time, it is everything.
It’s as if our DNA is like the plans of a grand piano and the environment is both piano creator and the concert player, touching the keys with exquisite skill. The fruit fly is a clarinet, the earthworm a drum and the birds are violins. Each instrument has a particular arrangement and built in memory system. The environment is isn’t just playing the piano, but all the other instruments as well.
Our analogy breaks down here, because each biological instrument isn’t as simple as its orchestral counterpart. Each instrument has trillions of full blown supercomputers (the cells), each which is working within its own environment, with various memory, control and other systems. Each instrument is responding to all the other instruments in the environment too. The complexity of the instruments ‘fools’ us into thinking that each one is autonomous.
What we are looking at is unfathomable in its intricacy, it has a harmony we can’t conceive, an intelligence so far above what we are used to thinking about, and the song it is singing?
It has no center, it is everywhere at once and has been playing for an eternity…
Its starting to sound like something familiar, no? You are reading this thinking when is Vikid going to go all Christ or Krishna on me?!
Well, we’re not going there today.
But it really does make you think.
What if DNA is just memory?
And that’s,
The Vikid Truth