Epigenetics Finds That Our Genes Are Not the Whole Story

I asked this to an English literature professor, or was it a Philosophy professor? Can the brain with its thought ability change the expression of the genes? This I asked in 1970 when a student at Michigan in Ann Arbor. The professor chose to ignore the question, making me feel with intended purpose, that the question was not worth intellectual consideration, much less arrieve at an answer. He wouldn't even consider the thought, and let me know that by merely intertaining that thought defined me as an inferior thinker. So. I cowered in deference to respected intelligencia, taken for granted of anyone expounding "pearls of wisdom," at cherished University of Michigan. So, I put that thought in the back burner unconciously, and desisted pursuit of an answer. After all, both my parents had attended Michigan, and to me they were admirable thinkers, and I had been accepted to Michigan, so I could not have inferior thoughts. Now, 40 years later, I run across the word-Epigenetics! A new word to entertain the concept that "our genes seem to be instructed, in part, by a driver that can manipulate which of them are switched on and off, and when. Genome, meet your boss, the Epigenome." Most scientist want it to be easily explained chemically in a physical world, forgetting that our own brain has a chemical component and an Electrical-Magnetic Spectrum component. Thought belongs to the Potential-Idea Spectrum which coexists with the physical genetic component. Why do we need synapsis and dentrites if we could just send all the information via em? Why indeed! Why do we need genes, if thought has all the information, as in Plato's "Idea concept." Both are needed for OUR physical existance, not for the CREATOR.

So here is the quid of the matter, we can create genetic expression, thus existing Form. But it would be Hubris to think we are the Creator. We can only create from all that was created in the first place by the Creator. We cannot create CREATION!

What is behind EPIGENTICS? At first the CREATOR OF CREATION, then ENVIROMENT and THOUGHT came into play to create.

My professor should have told me that my thoughts do create me!

richard of FL 5:18AM January 13, 2010