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  1. Nov 2024
    1. DNA simply does not replicate like a crystal you have to have a living organism to enable it to do so

      for - quote - DNA simply does not replicate like a crystal. You have to have a living organism to enable it to do so. - Denis Noble

    2. as Richard Dawkins told me two years ago in a debate with him Dennis we could inscribe your DNA in blocks of granite the C's G's A's and T's and we' keep those blocks of granite for 10,000 years and then we'll be able to recreate you I said no you can't

      for - quote - myth - Richard Dawkin myth - recreate entire organism from DNA - not possible - Denis Noble

      quote - myth - Richard Dawkin myth - recreate entire organism from DNA - not possible - Denis Noble - (see below) - As Richard Dawkins told me two years ago in a debate with him: - "Denis, we could inscribe your DNA in blocks of granite, - the C's G's A's and T's, - and we' keep those blocks of granite for 10,000 years and then we'll be able to recreate you." - I said no you can't - why not? - Well, where would you get my mother's egg cell, as it was in1936 - Well you can see that the point here, it led people to a very simplistic idea that from DNA you could automatically recreate a person, an organism exactly as it is in its first, Incarnation if you like - We can all be reincarnated as many times as we wish!<br /> - Well, one one might sort of wish to be a bit of a Buddhist in all of this and get away with that, - but I don't think even the Buddhists would accept that that was the way they were going to do it if they do it at all

    3. Hodgkin cycle

      for - quote - Hodgkin cycle - example of connection between global property and molecular properties - Denis Noble

  2. May 2024
    1. a more holistic approach to the organism rather than a reductionist one I'm afraid we have to because 00:26:36 reductionism has failed

      for - quote - reductionism has failed - Denis Noble

    2. essentially Darwin would never have been a neo-darwinian

      for - quote - Darwin would never have been a Neo-Darwinian - Denis Noble

    3. if we didn't have people who were wrong we wouldn't be where we are

      for - quote - being wrong - Denis Noble

      quote - Being wrong - Denis Noble - If we didn't have people who were wrong - we wouldn't be where we are