http://www.kurzweilai.net/molecular-movies-may-accelerate-anti-cancer-drug-discovery Accelerating Intelligence Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/molecular-movies-may-accelerate-anti-cancer-drug-discovery/comment-page-1#comment-29002 Phil Osborn Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:34:34 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159364#comment-29002 Nice that this area of research is finally getting some attention. Arthur Koestler was speculating about the role of "introns" and epigenetic macro DNA programming back in the '60's. It made sense to me at the time, but the research communities that could have taken a look were committed to the strict DNA/RNA paradigms, much like the age researchers systematically ignored evidence of a "death gene" on the grounds that it confered no advantage to the individual and there was minimal evidence of group selection, where a lifespan limit might have distinct advantages in dealingwith changing environments. So, as with Newtonian physics, that could have been developed by the ancient Greeks, the primary obstacle to scientific progress is faulty human software. Nice that this area of research is finally getting some attention. Arthur Koestler was speculating about the role of “introns” and epigenetic macro DNA programming back in the ’60′s. It made sense to me at the time, but the research communities that could have taken a look were committed to the strict DNA/RNA paradigms, much like the age researchers systematically ignored evidence of a “death gene” on the grounds that it confered no advantage to the individual and there was minimal evidence of group selection, where a lifespan limit might have distinct advantages in dealingwith changing environments. So, as with Newtonian physics, that could have been developed by the ancient Greeks, the primary obstacle to scientific progress is faulty human software.

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