X-Message-Number: 5932
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:21:15 -0800
From:  (Dwight Jones)
Subject: Re: Virtue of Suffering
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> Gee, then I wonder how a human embryo manages to build one
> without all that "complex" software. Do you think we might
> bootstrap the process by learning how to read our own DNA
> code; you know, sorta like "Read The Chapter On 'How-To-Build-
> A-Brain' In The Freakin Manual".

Steven Harris wrote:

>Comment: No.  DNA is a recipe, not a blueprint.  

>It's always easier to make stuff mindlessly than to fix it.  

To say that DNA is not a blueprint- that's not quite obvious.
One must ask where the blueprint is then- in God's filing 
cabinet?

And to create a living being from DNA is hardly mindless. It's 
the closest thing to a miracle any of us will ever see.

If you would only believe your own analysis (that fixing an old 
human body is questionable at best) then you might concur that 
this quixotian question of cryonics might be better posed- 
especially if directed to regeneration from DNA. 
(With all due respect to the members of this list).

Dwight G. Jones
Church of Man


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