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NICOLELIS on TED explaining his experiment. "And a brain-machine interface is not rocket science, it's just brain research. So what I need to say is that no Turing machine, no computer can predict what a brain net will do. So we will absorb technology as part of us. Technology will never absorb us. It's simply impossible." https://lnkd.in/d3iVSZY View in LinkedIn

VIRAL ORIGIN OF THE NUCLEUS. “There are also strong reasons to consider that the eukaryotic nucleus is of viral origin. DNA viruses are held to be competent to create new genes in large numbers; both complex and simple ones.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

REGULATORY SEQUENCES. ““The capabilities of non-coding DNA with higher order regulatory functions have descended from ancestral viral genome editing competences that have been integrated by endogenous viruses, e.g. retroviruses.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

FOREIGN DNA. “The meta-DNA that codes only for active miRNAs has (three-leveled) semiotic competences to incorporate entire blocks of DNA of foreign organisms (non-self-recognition) into its own DNA. It achieves this: (1) at the correct location; (2) in the correct relation to the existing genome ratio; and (3) in correct relation to the DNA-skeletal/non-coding DNA ratio.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend featuring an article entitled Biocommunication and natural genome editing, by G Witzany. This discusses the important role of viral editing processes in evolution, rather than the effects of gradual small mutations as conceived by Darwin and his followers. The viral contribution to evolution is still not widely acknowledged in the life sciences. View in LinkedIn

GENOME ECOLOGY. “The most dominant viral life strategy is the non-lytic but persistent viral settlement of cytoplasm of cellular hosts and even more of cellular host genomes.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

SELF-HEALING VIRUSES. “Even lethally irradiated viruses can often repair themselves...viruses are the only living agents capable of meaningfully recombining text fragments of a damaged genome into a fully functional viral genome that is capable of self-replication.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn