DNA represents information itself, the beginning of life, the love of life, and through chemistry, the control of life.
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DNA & GENETIC MEMORIES
Flowing from emergence, the circles ripple out into three specific kinds of memory. The first memory is DNA. A molecular code interpreted by other molecules, called RNA's and proteins. With DNA’s guidance, these other molecules self-organize and life emerges. The biochemistry of all life is essentially the same. But different genes code for different kinds of proteins, which in turn become different kinds of cells and organisms. The first circle represents life’s unity. But DNA can mean other things as well. The circle of life traditionally represents birth and death. And the way life responds to the changes in the seasons. But it can also represent the feedback loop between DNA and the environment. It can represent the totality of our evolutionary history or the history of our species as we journeyed out of Africa, or maybe the simple history of a single family. It can represent unity or diversity. But it also serves as a memorial, and a warning, reminding us that most of the branches in evolutions’ tree have ended in extinction.
It also represents the way genetics influence our mind. For instance, the way genetic history of our species conditions us to appreciate natures’ beauty. Indeed, when it comes to nature, notions of beauty and holiness almost seem the same.
However, our instinctual toolkit not only sets us up to appreciate beauty and holiness, but to kill, overeat, and be violent as well. But fortunately for us, we have accumulated so many instincts that a kind of freedom has begun to emerge. And so, hopefully, our evolutionary history and destiny are probably not the same.
Through faith, THE OCTAGOD can create inspiration for every kind of science. However, each of the sciences inspires in different ways. That’s why individuals are drawn to different sciences. So with emergence, we take steps from the Big Bang to the present, and then on into the possibilities of the future. But with DNA we are inspired in other ways.
For instance, we are inspired to contemplate the relationship between life and non-life. We see the tree of evolution, as well as the ground in which it grows. Here we contemplate life in the context of the Big Bang, and are forced to ask, in very deep ways, the question, what life is? And how does it emerge?