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book The Biology of Belief, and has
recently produced another book Spontaneous Evolution, both of which explore the relationship between energy and cells, and how that activity relates to, well...everything. Both books fl ow and give a good understanding of this ‘new’ biology.
Time and again, we are posed with the question of epigenetics and fractals, and those are the two
things I don’t get, even though I have read a great deal on both. Can you explain a little about those subjects for us?
OK. When we talk about genetics, we talk about the actual DNA and the actual physical coding of those bases; the DNA code, the hard blueprint.
Here’s an analogy; in the old days before television was on 24 hours a day, when the programmes fi nished broadcasting they would put on a test pattern. The test pattern is from the broadcaster, so let’s just look at that as a pattern, and when it comes to your television set the pattern is projected on the screen. Now here’s what epigenetics is all about; on the television set is the on and off button, so if you want to see the pattern or not, you have to turn the television on or off. Then there’s the volume – you have to adjust the volume of the sound, so that’s another button on the television set, then I can say that I can adjust the colour, the horizontal or the vertical, or the focus, I can change all these adjustments. Does the image change on the screen? Yes. But here’s the question; has the original broadcast been altered by the dials on the television set? No. Ok, point, genetics is a test pattern broadcast, epigenetics is all the dials and controls on the television set.
The net result is simply this, with epigenetics, I can modify that test pattern on the screen, and create 30,000 different variations from the same test pattern. For every gene blueprint that we have, when you apply epigentics to it, you didn’t change the gene, you changed the readout – the picture. So you can modify every gene in your
body to create over 30,000 variations of image from the same pattern. The point is this, you could come with very healthy genes, but through your life experience and adjusting the dials, you could take a healthy gene and create from it a mutant product.
So basically it’s this; genetics is the hard code, epigenetics is the readout of the code, but the readout is modifi ed so that the same gene can provide for many different products, based on how the organism responds to the environment.
Here’s another way of looking at it; a gene is a blueprint to make the proteins which are the building blocks of the body, so the character of the body is expressed in the character of the building blocks. But where do the protein building blocks come from? They are the blueprints from the genes that make these proteins. Epigenetics is the equivalent of a contractor. The contractor can read the blueprint and modify the readout to adjust it to whatever they need for whatever they are building. So the point is this; we all came with genetics, and yet it turns out we are all contractors because we can take out genetic blueprints and adjust them to create what we want to create from the same blueprint, by modifying the blueprint. And since you are the contractor, you can always go back into the blueprint at any time to change the outcome as you go through your life.
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Well that’s much clearer now, thanks. What about fractals? Apart from being very beautiful when you see them presented in the most intricate art forms.
Nature by its structure is fractal. Let’s clear up what we mean by fractal; fractal is a geometry, so that’s maths. But why do you do geometry, what does it mean? Geometry is the maths by which you put structure into space. So, an architect will use geometry to build a house. If I’m constructing physical things to put in space, I’m going to use the rules of geometry. There are two kinds of geometry that we live in this world with; the one that you and I learnt at school, which is still the principle geometry, Euclidian geometry, where
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