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Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by innguest on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:02AM (#8236067)
Nature and evolution seem to be concerned with passing down information. For that, Nature came up with 4 letters: A, T, C, G. You see where I'm going with this.
Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by lotsofmangos on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:38AM (#8236142)
Social Darwinism?

Edit - I am not meaning this in its worst excesses, though I am meaning it pejoratively.

Just because there are 4 bases on DNA doesn't mean anything about what makes a good written language.

This is because they are not letters in a language, at least not as we commonly understand letters or language.

Those are just the labels we have given them as they were some of the closest metaphors to hand.

We could have called them notes and it would work just as well.

However that would have no bearing on the best ways to write music.

Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by baconstrp on Thursday August 28, 2014 @04:57AM (#8236448)
Which further down all merely protons and neutrons? If we could go further there maybe only 1 matter, or even Null? You see where I'm going with this. Arguing spiritual culture with physics theory is really comparing hot chicks with debugging assembly.