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libfemme ( 11/16/2003, 02:17:33 )First off it isn't a matter of finding the "right" brain cell to find its genes. Each and every cell in your body from your tooth to your toe has the same 46 chromosomes, no more no less. Your lung cells have the same genes as your muscle cells. Your skin cells have the same genes as your blood cells.What makes your cells different is which of those 30,000 or so genes are switched on and which are dormant. Your brain cell uses only the genes it needs to be a brain cell, and ignores the genes to be bone cell. So if you take any cell in your body, any cell at all, and look at its genes they will be identical.That's why you can leave blood at a crime gene and investigators can identify you by the saliva in your mouth. The genes in each of your cells is identical. So it doesn't matter which brain cell you chose to clone. Any cell in your body would create the same baby cell. From there the baby cell is induced to become specialized. But you don't clone an adult cell and get another adult cell.Furthermore, memory, thinking and learning takes place on the level of your Brain as a total organ, not in the genes insides your cells. Just as it is your heart acting as an organ that pumps blood through your system, not the individual cells acting on their own.One brain cell all by itself does not think. It is the connections that your brain cells make as a consequence of learning and experience that you experience as thoughts and memories.Consider this: Every natural baby is born with half of its mother's brain genes and half of its fathers brain genes right now, and yet every new baby has to learn to speak from scratch, does't it? Why don't babies automatically know how to speak English as soon as they are born if their parents spoke English? Because genes don't carry memories.It you want to "retrieve" a memory of your parent, that's what we have school for-for children to go through the experience of learning the subjects their parents once learned. That is how knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. You have to learn it. The only "knowledge" that is passed down in your genes are instincts such as a desire to live, a desire to eat, a desire for sex etc. In that very limited sense you can trace the biological origins of a organism through its genes. But we are talking about the origin of humans as as species not the origin of individual people.You have no memory of anything that your parents had to acquire through learning. Learning does not change your genes, and therefore does not get passed to offspring.
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