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azted123
Often I have wondered if our life and former life history is recorded in our make up of DNA and passed on to our offspring both by the Mother and Father. The reasoning of my thinking this, is due to the ability of a hypnotist to regress certain people back to times before they were born even to speakiing foriegn languages they could not do when not under hypnotis. Could our ablities be influanced by our ansestors even without our knowing it? Does anyone have any ideas concerning this possibility? We know so little about the human body and its ability other than what we feel and read today. Even Scientific research uncover some thing new each day. If this is possible, what kind of equipment could we use to read that information from DNA?
TRoc
azted123,


Evolution would be impossible without the biological accumulation of information of parents, and passed on to offspring.

Human feats such as Motzart's piano playing, Tiger's swing, or Aggasie's reaction time, would be impossible without muscle memory retention. These are highly refined skills, aquired mainly through repetion of high order, and would not be passed directly down. However, a child is also a product of his environment, and would gain greater skills than average just by observing (pattern recognition). If both parents had similar skills, it would be more likely that the child would be "gifted". This does not explain the "mutation" that occurred in the first place, which needs a larger "pool" as its' medium.

In our lifetime, we will breathe in the molecules of air that have been shared by those alive, and those previously alive. This is homeopathy at the exteme; it is slow, but all inclusive. Not everyone evolves, and not everyone will "catch" a disease, but some will. Over the long haul, the stong will live and reproduce, and the sick will die out. The same can be said for "ability"; for every advanced degree, there is a retarded degree. Conservation of evolutionary development. We cant go too far in one direction all at once. The convoy moves as fast as the slowest vehicle. When everyone catches up, the "critical mass" is reached, and advancement can proceed again.

This is linear, micro-evolution; the "gifted" leading the masses. If all the "bodies" were to advance together, Pauli says they must advance as a circle. This would be macro-evolving of everyone at once. In Buddism, this is the Third Way, and is quickly becoming the norm. The enlightened will push from the bottom up, rather than "sitting on high" and attempting to pull selected individuals up. Christ taught this through his lifestyle, more than his words. (BTW I'm not christian, so dont spackle my crack) He lived with lepers, conversed with liars, traded with thieves, and loved a whore. He did not 'roll cold on momos' while his neighbors had no shoes.

As far as making equipment to read this from DNA, I don't think so. Perhaps by extrapolation, but the signatures would ultimately be sub-atomic, and not directly seen at the molecular level. Sort of like trying to directly measure gravity affecting "something" with a device that has mass - it just wont work accurately. It will require "out of the box / not in the book" teqniques. Sort of like the result of deep and continued meditation: being aware that you are aware that you are aware. We need to observe the observer being observed in order to get an accurate "reflection" of the 3 dimensions of reality that we are in.



T.Roc

Matador
Well, here goes!
procyon
QUOTE (Matador+Jan 8 2012, 03:51 AM)
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Matador
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