So does this put another nail in the coffin to the notion that apes and humans have “nearly” matching DNA?
Imagine what will be discovered when the known holes for genetic disorders are lined up under this new language.
I can't help but believe there's an intelligence far greater than ours doing the programming for life as we know it.
Such discoveries are evidence that evolution is not a true science.
ELLIE: You found the primer.
HADDEN: Clever girl! Lights.
HADDEN: Pages and pages of data. Over 63 thousand in all, and on the perimeter of each...
ELLIE: ...alignment symbols, registration marks, but they don’t line up.
HADDEN: They do, if you think like a Vegan. An alien intelligence is going to be more advanced. That means efficiency functioning on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions.
ELLIE: Yes! Of course. Where is the primer?
HADDEN: You’ll see. Every three-dimensional page contains a piece of the primer; there it was all the time, staring you in the face. Buried within the message itself, is the key...
Here by three-dimensional page he means six of the square pages combined into a cube. In the simulations the six faces become transparent except for the writing. When two opposite faces are superimposed a hidden message becomes visible.
WHITE HOUSE - CABINET ROOM (Ellie finishes the sentence that she started in the previous scene)
ELLIE: ...to decoding it. Within the layering of the matrix, we have these basic equations. So with this very elementary foundation, they have given us a kind of general scientific vocabulary. We now have the symbols for true and false...
Every three-dimensional page contains three messages corresponding to the three pairs of opposite faces of a cube.
DAVID DRUMLIN: (Cutting Ellie off) ...This was the key, to put it simply, that allowed us to decipher their language for physics, geometry, chemistry, next frame Ellie.
the layers of the onion of life keep getting deeper
and with each advent of men saying “now we know”
in a spec of time what they know changes again
and they repeat their worn refrain “now we know”
which they never ever fully will
what is the greatest asset a human scientist can have?
humility towards the ignorance we constantly prove ourselves to have
Thanks for posting this. I appreciate posts like this and related posts.
I do have to say that after reading the abstract, I see what they are talking about and the article is an overhyped piece of empty rhetoric.
It’s not that big a deal and the supposed breakthrough is well known. The author tries to coin a phrase, a duon, which is unnecessary and silly and obsolete at it’s inception.
But, it is solid good work that characterizes the genome and specificities of function of the chromosomal DNA. I wish there wasn’t such hype associated with basic research that adds to overall understanding, and provides solid information, in a field
It is part of the ENCODE Project which in my opinion is important and interesting and I can’t speak highly enough regarding it’s potential goal in moving forth the understandings of the molecular aspects of life.
Here’s the abstract from the recent Science article:
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Genomes contain both a genetic code specifying amino acids and a regulatory code specifying transcription factor (TF) recognition sequences. We used genomic deoxyribonuclease I footprinting to map nucleotide resolution TF occupancy across the human exome in 81 diverse cell types. We found that ~15% of human codons are dual-use codons (“duons”) that simultaneously specify both amino acids and TF recognition sites. Duons are highly conserved and have shaped protein evolution, and TF-imposed constraint appears to be a major driver of codon usage bias. Conversely, the regulatory code has been selectively depleted of TFs that recognize stop codons. More than 17% of single-nucleotide variants within duons directly alter TF binding. Pervasive dual encoding of amino acid and regulatory information appears to be a fundamental feature of genome evolution.
Sprang up from a mudpile and a lighting bolt, dontcha know?
Virtually everything we have that enriches our standard of living and quality of life were developed by scientists and engineers. Sad to see so many on this thread hate them. Finding a presumably rare case of a gene with 2 functions doesnt invalidate a century of DNA and genetic tech, it expands our knowlege of how thing work. And learning how things work results in better medicine and patient care and and longer life expectancy. We are not the enemy.
Origins of life ping....
Thanks for posting, aimhigh.