Life expression and how it affects our gene state.
Tuesday, 08.11.2009, 06:00pm (GMT)
Life expression and how it affects us at the gene level?
If genes are constantly expressing themselves in the early stages of expansion, and things like life and experience affect us biologically, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that our experience would have an impact on our gene expression during times of key growth (at the advanced evolved state)? Wouldn’t the idea of even evolving to this point and allowing us to choose our own path be a viable believable option from an evolution stand point? And would it even be considered abrasive to say that we evolved for this purpose, to allow executive decision making of the highest order in order to pick our own path?
At the cellular level, organisms borrow various genes from each other as they mingle and crawl all over one another, and this is nothing but good for the organism as it ensures dynamic activity in a ever changing environment, frankly put, dynamic movement in a dynamic environment keeps everything active and responsive, at the advanced level, we get to choose and influence the expression through our everyday activities. I mean from a logical structured standpoint, why is this hard to believe? Well for one I will tell you, the answer lies in the way that we evolved. Our brains and evolution up till this point has all been geared toward objective behaviour and that behaviour has shaped our evolution path in a co-evolution of sorts, and this evolution took a turn for the better when we developed the conscious part of the mind, strictly speaking, the ability to analyze a situation through the combatant influences of changing in the environment allowing more basis interaction between people. As people we are programmed to accept all sorts of stimulus and follow the points where the most stimuli are offered, this allows us to evolve as humans and even as a species. And ultimately influence our mutations through the positive reinforcement of experience. This could only really mean one thing. Mutations are structured in an environment where we have control over our actions, in the wild this isn’t so, as the wild dictates our actions and therefore keeps the mutational gene structure within its grip making it seem that the only way for a gene to mutate is through random mutations and gene drift.
Evolution works on the basis of combining information all the way down to the cellular level, and we as people strive to gain stimulus, combine the two and what do you get? Objective reaction to the environment that fulfills the basic need of evolution. Doesn’t that make sense to you? It sure as hell makes sense to me. But the problem is the way the brain is programmed to accept various forms of input and with the conscious being new, there is no way to differentiate between what is good and what is bad, it just imprints, we have to use our better judgment to make the distinction on the issue and a lot of the time we don’t have the insight or the experience to make the right choice resulting in a misaligned decision. However, like trial and error, we will learn from our mistakes and draw insight from them as well. This combined with available information allows us to guide the conscious part of the mind and as more information comes available, then our conscious decisions become more refined allowing co-evolution between the environment and personal development.
How does all this affect the mind? Well our intent to learn and our decreased nature toward instinctual behaviour curbs our gene expression towards advances in the brain allowing more integration and more information to be taken in, frankly our development as people and as a species is moving at a very fast pace right now and it is only getting faster, even the size of the brain is getting bigger as the amount of information available is increasing at an exponential rate. The size alone has increased by 100 grams over the last hundred years or so, if this isn’t evidence of concentrated conditions affecting our brain activity then I don’t know what is.
There are also changes at the disorder level that natural selection is having a hard time filtering because of our intention of caring for everyone, our thought patterns have become increasing repressed as people fall into a mode of systemized reaction to the environment. And as a result it keeps thought process locked up and within the confines of the imagination. Logical throughput without the expression primes and hinders gene expression towards a locked state of non expression and alters the genes in a negative way leading to various disorders at the gene level. Essentially gene mutation will always mimic free expression and continue to evolve in an upwards scale as life will always move towards gaining stimulus. This dynamic interaction with the environment is really the key, as the dynamic evolution of life has always mimicked this level of free expression and will continue to do so long as life plays with the dynamic rules within the confines that life offers, if life doesn’t play by the rules, compromises in mutation do occur and the symptoms of the dynamic compromise is the result, albeit being a disorder.
As people who want to decode how gene expression works we have to first define the variables in which it operates and the only way to do that is draw generalized objective insightful observations from what we see in the environment that fall within the confines in which evolution works. Ironically it`s the only way to go forward as it gives research direction, it gives people a new way to think about things and ultimately it will lead to advances on pretty much every directed level of thinking.
Thanks for reading.
Christopher Shaw
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