Genetics Astronomy & the Brain – Friday 20th September 2024

Genetics Astronomy & the Brain – Friday 20th September 2024

This could be a lengthy article….

In previous writing I described how my findings in Molecular Genetics subsequently directed me to Astronomy.

Back in about 2003/2004 I had realized things about genetics that hadn’t yet been discovered. I knew genes had to be different lengths and recall realizing ‘its the repeats’, which I recall writing to my friend in the USA. And followed by ‘we’re going to need a bigger boat’.

Since that time, the genetics field has discovered the difference of gene lengths as well as the importance of the repeats.

There are some academics who have preconceived notions about myself and my not being in a position to communicate with them, perpetuates that notion. I am disabled and there are things able people can do that I and other disabled people are unable to do. But often, there are things disabled people can do that able people cannot. When it comes to a brain impairment, people tend to have more difficulty relating to that than perhaps someone with a purely physical impairment.

And unfortunately, having a disability with the brain can bring a type of treatment by some, that isn’t very nice.

It’s an ism.

Parents and family of children with a disorder that involves a brain function, deal with this same ism at times too. It’s because it’s the unknown I suspect. The disabled person in question often cannot present the interface that people are familiar with and for them this creates a big divide. If you don’t look like you can understand, then often, you’ll be treated like you can’t.

So, when considering this, we look at other animals and can treat them in just such a way, because they do not have ‘the interface’.

We need to get past this.

 

The molecular world also does not have ‘the interface’ which may be in part, why I relate well to it.

We are underestimating it, while overestimating ourselves.

I left the genetics field because I knew in a thousand lifetimes end on end, it couldn’t be mastered. And I worry when we want to change cows stomachs to address methane or improve yield in grain without knowing the outcomes down the road. You might see this wonderful crop and think eureka but you might also have shortened it’s reproduction in the doing. We are doing these things, when nature (or the molecular world) has already deciphered the best way for a cow to digest a diet that ferments and is gaseous. My thoughts of address would be diet, not attempt to genetically engineer physical change. And crops, my worry is the seed of engineered grains and grasses and a possible catastrophic impact to the natural grasses. A lot of life relies on those grasses and we’re smart, but we’re nowhere nearly as smart as. We need to keep in mind that we are looking at a world (with our micro tools) that has existed for an unfathomable time and spent probably billions of years perfecting nature on this planet.

And it’s important for us to respect this micro world, understand it as best we can. When it comes to this planet, we are now realizing that it isn’t basic, and I believe, just as our cuts heal, this planet will address imbalance or things that threaten the surface. It’s best to assume that at the molecular level, the planet could react, atmospherically, or other, by its design, to recognize a problem and so we need to consider that possibility when our activities present issues.

Were a large die-off to occur in the oceans, (due to climate) the gas that would permeate the atmosphere would be horrendous, catastrophic.

I’m not a doom spokesperson or a horn tooter, but if our activities result in a response by this planet, it will be quite terrible.

We all want our planet healthy and the animals thriving.

 

To the brain, earlier today there was an research article about vision and higher cognitive function.

It mentioned the outward actions of raising the eyes upward and the hands moving like weight scales.

As to the upward motion of the eyes. This for me is brain driven, so I should think it is brain driven for everyone. It might feel like you’re doing it, but it isn’t. Why it happens is some people can think and quickly disengage visual focus while thinking. If you can’t disengage focus quickly, the brain directs your eyes to a place that’s distant or blank, so that what your eyes see does not distract you from your thoughts.

Another is when thinking on a choice between several options, your eyes will go to one place in your view, the other options will take your eyes to another place so that when you go from one to the other option in your mind, your eyes assist you to organize the options. Brain driven, the brain knows what you are doing and assists you.

When this commences, well I suspect some people with blindness could help. People born with blindness and people who became blind unfortunately later in life, could assist with a study in this.

Fiona MacLeod (C)