What Is The Meaning Of Life?

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
HAHAHA, "Animals do stuff because they have genes" HAHAHA

Wow. That was great. Did you take Biology? Ever? It definitly seems as if you haven't.

INSTINCT tells an animal what to do, not genes. Genes determine what the animal will look like, and how well it will function, not what it does. How the animal is raised, how it's treated, what it's parent teaches it, what it learns from experience, THESE are all things that determines what an animal will do. Animals learn, just like humans, just not on the same intelligence level.

Man, that was funny. Genes, telling an animal what to do. hahaha.

1. I did, and I also read several books.

2. You can alter the chemistry, but the action results from encodings in their genetics. Some basic language skills are encoded into your DNA. If you disagree, look at Genie, the kid who had an evil father. Animals learn about the world, and have preset conditions to deal with it. A human baby sucks it's thumb. It can be overridden, but it's there in the genetics.

3. Where else would the knowledge originate from?

Originally posted by Ytaker
2. You can alter the chemistry, but the action results from encodings in their genetics. Some basic language skills are encoded into your DNA. If you disagree, look at Genie, the kid who had an evil father. Animals learn about the world, and have preset conditions to deal with it. A human baby sucks it's thumb. It can be overridden, but it's there in the genetics.

A human baby sucking it's thumb is genetic? I'm really unsure about that.......

Originally posted by Ytaker
1. I did, and I also read several books.

2. You can alter the chemistry, but the action results from encodings in their genetics. Some basic language skills are encoded into your DNA. If you disagree, look at Genie, the kid who had an evil father. Animals learn about the world, and have preset conditions to deal with it. A human baby sucks it's thumb. It can be overridden, but it's there in the genetics.

3. Where else would the knowledge originate from?

You took Biology? Fooled the **** out of me.

No, actions do not result from encodings in their genetics. Their actions come from encodings in their memory and basic survival instinct. In the brain. After you LEARN, you change. You can overcome you're basic survival instinct, like killing for food. Language skills are not encoded into your DNA. What your face structure will be, what gender you are, what eye color you will have, how tall you will be, these are the type of things encoded in your DNA. Language is LEARNED. Why do you think there are so many different languages(3,000)?

A baby sucking it's thumb is NOT genetic. It's a relfextive action, it gives the child a sense of security.

Also, explain this "Genie" with the supposedly evil father. Evil is just a word to describe something abstract and misunderstood. Psychotic, or mentally imbalanced is usually a better description of an "evil" person.

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
You took Biology? Fooled the **** out of me.

No, actions do not result from encodings in their genetics. Their actions come from encodings in their memory and basic survival instinct. In the brain. After you LEARN, you change. You can overcome you're basic survival instinct, like killing for food. Language skills are not encoded into your DNA. What your face structure will be, what gender you are, what eye color you will have, how tall you will be, these are the type of things encoded in your DNA. Language is LEARNED. Why do you think there are so many different languages(3,000)?

A baby sucking it's thumb is NOT genetic. It's a relfextive action, it gives the child a sense of security.

Also, explain this "Genie" with the supposedly evil father. Evil is just a word to describe something abstract and misunderstood. Psychotic, or mentally imbalanced is usually a better description of an "evil" person.

1. Actually, they need some basic encoding to provide actions. They can interpret the world. There are several basic points of grammar that don't change. Genie could say "good chocolate" But not "I like to eat this good chocolate. Even a pidgin culture of babies developed a language, with certain grammatical points. The words are just reactions to the world. They do not matter. If it was different, we’d have different words, and the same grammatical system.

2. Why? It doesn't comfort me. If it's a natural thing (dare I say it... God given 😆 😆 😆 ) Then it should comfort me too. Otherwise, chemistry in our brain makes the change. It's not random, but follows instructions. DNA.

3. Sorry, I just see a mentally unbalanced person who locks his daughter in a chair for thirteen years as an abstractly evil person. Maybe it's just me.

The grammatical system has nothing to do with DNA. It has to do with having a common language, so you can understand each other, which is learned. DNA doesn't have to do with ANYTHING mental, such as learning. The exception is when the DNA has a mutated or missing chromosome, and a part of the body(possibly the brain) can't function properly. When DNA does it's job correctly, it doesn't have anything to do with the brain. Someone with an IQ of 75 can have a healthy strand of DNA, it just means that they're stupid.

DNA (Deoxyribonucleaic Acid) deals with physical appearances. It has a code encoded on it, mRNA(messenger Ribonucleac Acid) transfers that code to tRNA (transfer Ribonucleac Acid), which then creates proteins for the body by attaching to 20 amino acids. These proteins shape what the person will look like, and if their organs work properly.

It has nothing to do with the parts of the brain. Try looking there for the answers to your questions, because it isn't in DNA.

Maybe you need to take psychology as well. "Evil" is a perception, just like "Good". When there is a chemical imbalance in your brain, you do things a normal person wouldn't normally do. Now, I am not a neurologist, so I don't know as much about this as I do Biology, but I do know that when you mess with certain parts of a person's brain, you can basically make them do anything you want. Now if this mess up occured naturally, then either the person doesn't have control over his actions, or he does, but believes what he is doing is right. This is why lobotomys work so well.

No, a man who locks his daughter in a chair is not evil, he's a ****ing psycho.

Are you a 6 month old child? Then no, it wouldn't give you a sense of security, you've outgrown it, everyone does. Also, not all baby's suck their thumbs anyway.

Well said Arachnoidfreak, although there are so many levels of the mind, do you know anything of the so called "racial memory"?

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
The grammatical system has nothing to do with DNA. It has to do with having a common language, so you can understand each other, which is learned. DNA doesn't have to do with ANYTHING mental, such as learning. The exception is when the DNA has a mutated or missing chromosome, and a part of the body(possibly the brain) can't function properly. When DNA does it's job correctly, it doesn't have anything to do with the brain. Someone with an IQ of 75 can have a healthy strand of DNA, it just means that they're stupid.

DNA (Deoxyribonucleaic Acid) deals with physical appearances. It has a code encoded on it, mRNA(messenger Ribonucleac Acid) transfers that code to tRNA (transfer Ribonucleac Acid), which then creates proteins for the body by attaching to 20 amino acids. These proteins shape what the person will look like, and if their organs work properly.

It has nothing to do with the parts of the brain. Try looking there for the answers to your questions, because it isn't in DNA.

Maybe you need to take psychology as well. "Evil" is a perception, just like "Good". When there is a chemical imbalance in your brain, you do things a normal person wouldn't normally do. Now, I am not a neurologist, so I don't know as much about this as I do Biology, but I do know that when you mess with certain parts of a person's brain, you can basically make them do anything you want. Now if this mess up occured naturally, then either the person doesn't have control over his actions, or he does, but believes what he is doing is right. This is why lobotomys work so well.

No, a man who locks his daughter in a chair is not evil, he's a ****ing psycho.

Are you a 6 month old child? Then no, it wouldn't give you a sense of security, you've outgrown it, everyone does. Also, not all baby's suck their thumbs anyway.

Sorry, but it does. Your DNA has your blueprints, and your brain is included. Have you noticed how humans always look humany? Four limbs, ten didgets? The DNA makes everything happen. There's even a gene that will kill you off young if you have too many repeats of it. The DNA is the absolute blueprint. It has your IQ on, your serotonin control, your physical strength; it all comes from DNA. Or God controls it. There are no other sources for your brain. Your point about the IQ is just stupid though. Health isn't the factor.

Is the brain not an organ? What is it then?

So I call him evil. It's my perception. I judge him according to it.

How do I bloody well outgrow it? How?

Don't say you just do. What biological reason?

Dna is the genetic informations of the cells

The meaning of life is to answer the question "what is the meaning of life?"

and your answer to it is? 😛

that is the answer.
THe answer of the question is to discover the answer

what a predicament 😉

Originally posted by Ytaker
Sorry, but it does. Your DNA has your blueprints, and your brain is included. Have you noticed how humans always look humany? Four limbs, ten didgets? The DNA makes everything happen. There's even a gene that will kill you off young if you have too many repeats of it. The DNA is the absolute blueprint. It has your IQ on, your serotonin control, your physical strength; it all comes from DNA. Or God controls it. There are no other sources for your brain. Your point about the IQ is just stupid though. Health isn't the factor.

Is the brain not an organ? What is it then?

So I call him evil. It's my perception. I judge him according to it.

How do I bloody well outgrow it? How?

ooo a challenge. nice.

You proved my point there, with your first paragraph. Four limbs, ten digits, looking...."humany", physical strength, THAT'S what's in DNA. Physical appearences and features. You're intelligence is NOT determined by your DNA. Intelligence is determined by how much you actually learn. Now actual learning ability CAN be impaired by a fault in the DNA strand, but if there's no fault, there's no limit. That's what I meant by healthy. A DNA strand without impairing faults. It's not the genes themselves, it's the chromosomes, and having too many of any chromosome is not good. The human body has 46 chromosomes, if one repeats or is missing or they are out of order, any number of genetic diseases can come from it. Sickle cell anemia, Tay-sachs, hemophilia, etc.

Yes, the brain is an organ, but just like the nervous system, its special. Your brain is capable of conciousness, thought, and so many other things that NONE of your other organs can do.

Of course you can judge him to be evil, it is YOUR perception. That doesn't make it accurate.

Oh man, I have to give you this speech? That's sad.

As your body grows, it matures both physically and mentally. This is caused by hormones that your body releases. Now, as you mature mentally and emotionally, things that you were afriad of before, or things that effected you a certain way once, would not have the same effect anymore. The same way a child outgrows it's fear of the dark, a child outgrows sucking it's thumb.

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
ooo a challenge. nice.

You proved my point there, with your first paragraph. Four limbs, ten digits, looking...."humany", physical strength, THAT'S what's in DNA. Physical appearences and features. You're intelligence is NOT determined by your DNA. Intelligence is determined by how much you actually learn. Now actual learning ability CAN be impaired by a fault in the DNA strand, but if there's no fault, there's no limit. That's what I meant by healthy. A DNA strand without impairing faults. It's not the genes themselves, it's the chromosomes, and having too many of any chromosome is not good. The human body has 46 chromosomes, if one repeats or is missing or they are out of order, any number of genetic diseases can come from it. Sickle cell anemia, Tay-sachs, hemophilia, etc.

Yes, the brain is an organ, but just like the nervous system, its special. Your brain is capable of conciousness, thought, and so many other things that NONE of your other organs can do.

Of course you can judge him to be evil, it is YOUR perception. That doesn't make it accurate.

Oh man, I have to give you this speech? That's sad.

As your body grows, it matures both physically and mentally. This is caused by hormones that your body releases. Now, as you mature mentally and emotionally, things that you were afriad of before, or things that effected you a certain way once, would not have the same effect anymore. The same way a child outgrows it's fear of the dark, a child outgrows sucking it's thumb.

Why is your intelligence greater than a dogs? Why do you not look like it? Why are your insides different from a worms? Your DNA has a sequence of genes somewhere that affects an aspect of your intelligence. Many of them. If they were different you'd be a dog. Or a worm. Every little aspect of your being is imprinted on your genes.

Once there were twins. To test out the nurture theory, they put them in different families. One was put in a druggy place, one a good place. The druggy one committed suicide. But guess what; so did the good place one. Their brains were wired that way. Because they had a bad set of DNA somewhere in the mists of the chromosomes.

My family is naturally intelligent; my father is of the scale in many IQ tests, my grandfather at his great age speaks and writes better Greek and Latin than me, me who has studied it throughout college. We have several intelligence genes, and have attracted more women, have gotten more babies and survived. Cavemen got more intelligent, had better DNA plans and survived. Intelligance is a survival factor, and thus random mutations that make it better stay.

My skin can do many things that no other organ can do; that's what makes it a well-known organ. My DNA controls that, my skin colour is affected. My brain isn't any different, in the unique category, though due to mutations, mine is different from yours.

You said that he was a ****ing psycho. He is “Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful:” as the dictionary says, and is evil.

Imagine a caterpillar. It eats leaves, it crawls on a tree. Why doesn’t it do that when it turns into a Butterfly? Because hormones are always released, and that signals a change. Because they are always released there must be a common factor. This common factor is DNA. I stop sucking my thumb because a gland built on the designs in my DNA tells me too, and I no longer feel safety. It’s due to… ta da da da… DNA!

I'm ending this now.

We were both right it seems. Intelligence is determined by genes AND enviroment.

http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/MolecularBiology/Intelligence/

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
I'm ending this now.

We were both right it seems. Intelligence is determined by genes AND enviroment.

http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/MolecularBiology/Intelligence/

Actually we were talking about Dolphin's gayness.

Originally posted by Ytaker
My family is naturally intelligent; my father is of the scale in many IQ tests, ...

Kind of off topic, but you spelled "off" wrong when talking about how your family is naturally intelligent.

anyway... I took General Psych last semester at school and in class they taught us that IQ basically affected by your environment within limits of genetics. ie: you could be genetically gifted with a brain capable of an IQ of 130-150, but if you are put in an honors program and taught to be creative and think hard while in school you are more likely to be at a 150, and if you had a crappy childhood and went to crappy schools and were raised in front of a tv you are more likely to be a 130.

Both genetic and environmental. So yeah if you were saying genes and environment I think your right...

The answer is to find an anwer that you are content with and that suits your self.

or dont give a shite and just live and enjoy