Thursday, October 16, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Breaking DNA. Re-assembling it.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-10-16]: A single-cell organism breaks down its DNA into a quarter of a million pieces and then it reassembles it when needed. [1] The whole always keeps its essence. No matter how hard we want to break it up. Without the whole we would not have pieces. Because we have pieces, the whole exists. Because the whole exists, the pieces are meaningless...

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