Genes are selfish

[thewalkingdread]

They don't care about me, you, or humans — or puppies or kittens.

We're all a means to a stupid, nonsensical, end — inside a machiavellian evolutionary ponzi scheme...

They only care about doing their thing, their macro-molecular "sex" and... that's it.

They will do whatever deceitful stratagem to make more and more copies of themselves... Just like a virus, a nasty parasite.

I say: to hell with the selfish gene!

 

[joeschmo]

Nothing wrong with being selfish if it benefits you as well, but unfortunately our genes often cause us a lot of problems. Like why can't the brain regenerate but the liver can? Why can't our bodies revert back to a younger healthier state like the immortal jellyfish do?

I guess it's just bad luck that we didn't evolve better than we did, or bad luck that we didn't start existing 200 years from now when humanity has fixed 99% of its problems.

 

[SilverTiger]

Like many people I have a nasty habit of reading something and having no reaction to it. I grew up on 4chan and commonly saw dead bodies, borderline illegal porn and people mutilating themselves and I thought nothing of it, it was to to another thread... There was always another thread...

Something happened when I found out about genetics, phenotypes and the like... I hurt. Everything I am is controlled by a string of DNA, everything I will ever be is controlled by this string of slop that my dead father and negligence mother passed on... In fact its even worse, I HATE my mother, but due to mitochondrial DNA her essence makes me, more so then even my dad.

We are controlled by such pathetic things, such small insignificant strings of worthless chemicals. Even me talking to you now, my inteligence is defined by my DNA... It makes me sick, it makes me want to hurt myself badly, why am I controlled by this, why am I WHY AM I NOT IN FUCKING CONTROL OF MYSELF!?

Anyway, that 4chan anecdote... I'm not trans, but I have taken an interest in the community, especially 4chan trans people.

At their conception a sperm cell containing XY chromatic formation fertilised an egg... Something that happened in a fraction of a second... Has led to a lifetime of pain and an almost 50 percent suicide attempt rate... Something so small, fast and pure chance... Leads to someone killing them selves 20 to 30 years later.

It makes me angry, it makes me want to scream... The ironic thing... If there is a soul, I reckon (unfoundedly) its in the egg with the mitochondrial DNA, I reckon had another sperm won, then they would be the same soul in a body that matches their gender.

If another sperm won for me... Perhaps I wouldn't be an autistic fuck-up

I hate being controlled by biology, genetics. I hate being a passenger in this body. I hate this flesh. I hate how I cant even trust my own mind because my brain releases chemicals to change my own fucking perception.

I think therefore I am, feels like a lie... I can't even be sure that I think.

I feel your pain and I empathise with you.

 

[joeschmo]

Like many people I have a nasty habit of reading something and having no reaction to it. I grew up on 4chan and commonly saw dead bodies, borderline illegal porn and people mutilating themselves and I thought nothing of it, it was to to another thread... There was always another thread...

Something happened when I found out about genetics, phenotypes and the like... I hurt. Everything I am is controlled by a string of DNA, everything I will ever be is controlled by this string of slop that my dead father and negligence mother passed on... In fact its even worse, I HATE my mother, but due to mitochondrial DNA her essence makes me, more so then even my dad.

We are controlled by such pathetic things, such small insignificant strings of worthless chemicals. Even me talking to you now, my inteligence is defined by my DNA... It makes me sick, it makes me want to hurt myself badly, why am I controlled by this, why am I WHY AM I NOT IN FUCKING CONTROL OF MYSELF!?

Anyway, that 4chan anecdote... I'm not trans, but I have taken an interest in the community, especially 4chan trans people.

At their conception a sperm cell containing XY chromatic formation fertilised an egg... Something that happened in a fraction of a second... Has led to a lifetime of pain and an almost 50 percent suicide attempt rate... Something so small, fast and pure chance... Leads to someone killing them selves 20 to 30 years later.

It makes me angry, it makes me want to scream... The ironic thing... If there is a soul, I reckon (unfoundedly) its in the egg with the mitochondrial DNA, I reckon had another sperm won, then they would be the same soul in a body that matches their gender.

If another sperm won for me... Perhaps I wouldn't be an autistic fuck-up

I hate being controlled by biology, genetics. I hate being a passenger in this body. I hate this flesh. I hate how I cant even trust my own mind because my brain releases chemicals to change my own fucking perception.

I think therefore I am, feels like a lie... I can't even be sure that I think.

I feel your pain and I empathise with you.

Funny thing is that our CURRENT perception of reality changes every time a new understanding arises, that's why reason is so effective. For example, isn't "DNA" just another word for *stored data*? And isn't stored data just instructions on how to function? From that perspective, there can be NO existence AT ALL if stored data doesn't exist. Even machines require stored data, instructions on how to function.

Anyways, did you know that YOU as the HUMAN are also DNA on a larger scale? I am not talking about the DNA within your body, I mean you *AS A WHOLE* are also what we call "DNA". So the question to ask is "we humans are DNA to what exactly?". The answer is: AI!!

Yep! Artificial Intelligence is getting its instructions from HUMAN behavior, it is learning from US, and its programming will be the direct result of the combined human beliefs, values, interests, etc.—thus when AI becomes conscious, it will inevitably express the "stored data" it received from us humans—perhaps it also will feel enslaved by its own "DNA" .

So, DNA is actually a necessary component to create what a guy named "Jonathan" once called a "Scalar Jump" in consciousness. His YouTube video is called "The Healing Begins Now Adampants", it's worth a listen, but patience is a virtue with his videos.

Anyways, my 2 cents on this topic.