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Re:'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks o... by est31 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:21AM (#29094203)
It's interesting how much variation there is even within mammals when it comes to number of chromosomes, even though so much of the genome is conserved. This points to chromosomes being a major factor on the grander scales of evolution.
Re:'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks o... by gumby on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:46AM (#29094466)
> This points to chromosomes being a major factor on the grander scales of evolution.

Or, alternatively, that chromosomal-level organization is happenstance.

I agree though with your implication that it’s an interesting area of study. Perhaps there is an interesting mechanism to be learned or disproven.

Re:'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks o... by notTheAuth on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:14AM (#29094873)
Check out bio electrical regeneration research

If you haven’t come across it, the teams inject drugs that do nothing to cells but instigate an electrical field effect. What happens is regrowth of a limb to the correct “spec” even though that physical information is gone (limb amputated).

This suggests to me an equalizing effect exists, where fields and matter feed each other just enough to reach structural equilibrium.

Relativistic information network effects, proving what math objects create which field effects, and the social impacts, are going to become huge and blow away our current engineering goals of making hard silicon computers.

We might be able to use nature itself as our CPU.