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ihaveredhaironmyhead OP t1_j3pksvo wrote
Reply to comment by Ornery_Investment131 in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
If I was a creationist (I'm definitely not) this is definitely what I would cite as the strongest evidence of a creator. It truly boggles the mind that random interactions of molecules can lead to something like a cell which is way more than the sum of its parts - and it's driven by the same forces that pull the rock from your hand to the floor. Going into my biology education I thought the cell was just a house to protect fragile DNA. But the cell is really what you are... The DNA contains instructions to build the first cell of your life but after that the DNA is not involved in cellular division. It's just chemistry and ultimately physics. Is that right? It makes me think we have no free will and everything is just what happens when you have a big Bang and let billions of years happen.
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Reply to comment by CrateDane in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
So the shape of the centromeres dictates they behave in this complex manner of arrangement? Is it like a child's toy where squares fit into squares and circles fit into circles? I still struggle to understand how this can happen with zero guidance from a brain. It's just the shape of the molecules? What you described they do is so complicated.
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Reply to comment by CrateDane in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
This is a great description of what happens, but where are the instructions for all of this located? It's been explained to me that it's nothing but molecules bumping into each other but it sounds so complex it's hard to understand that.
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Reply to comment by Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
This is remarkable to me. I don't know why this isn't talked about more. Every inch of us is composed of cells - yet the function of these cells (you could almost say the function of "you") is entirely a chemical process based on random interactions. The spindle emerging and grabbing hold of chromosomes and arranging them in the middle and splitting them into different sides - this intelligent looking process is fundamentally the same as pouring oil into water. Do I have that right?
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Reply to comment by Evianicecubes in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
The information in the DNA is what contains the instructions for our body, correct? Does the DNA also contain instructions for how the cell works? Or is this a separately evolved system that works based on molecules bumping into each other? Can I conceive of the cell as almost a separate life form that exists inside of me?
ihaveredhaironmyhead OP t1_j3if5zn wrote
Reply to comment by Evianicecubes in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
What's another example of a passive interaction? Maybe this would help me understand. To me the entire process of cell division is mysterious. I don't understand how something requiring careful arrangement can be non-neurological.
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Reply to comment by Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat in How does the spindle apparatus know what to do during cell division? by ihaveredhaironmyhead
Chemical interactions? I still don't get how the spindles know which chromosomes to grab and what to do with them.
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Reply to How the concept: Banality of evil developed by Hanna Arendt can be applied to AI Ethics in order to understand the unintentional behaviour of machines that are intelligent but not conscious. by AndreasRaaskov
Human: Hey computer!
Computer: What?
Human: Using perfect logic please give us world peace!
Computer: Your wish is my command
Computer: kills all humans
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Reply to Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey by Culturedecanted
Bligh was unfairly maligned. His crew mutinied, but only because they wanted to keep having orgies with Tahitian sex slaves and Bligh wanted to keep to the mission. He was set adrift with a dozen loyalists and saved all of their lives by navigating thousands of miles with nothing but a compass on a fucking life boat. One of the most impressive feats of human sea faring ever. Stupid Mel Gibson