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Notes on software and processes for collecting, analyzing and acting on data |
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"Under the laws of classical physics, permanence and small numbers are incompatible. Smoothness, permanence, regularity can only emerge as statistical results from large numbers." We experience the opposite. The genome has only two copies of most genes. In many cases the loss of one would be catastrophic. Individual parts of many complex systems work together to maintain system stability or, more often, some goal directed behavior. Interaction and meaning embedded in relationships allow the whole to be much greater than the sum of the parts. Most often, the meaning cannot be derived from the pieces. Having sequenced the human genome, we have no better understanding of how to build a human from scratch than we did before. We don't even know how to build just one cell. The information coded in the genome has meaning as part of a biological system. Outside of that system, the genome is without meaning. |
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Copyright 2003 by James J. Vornov |