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DNA – Snakes and Ladders
There is no heaven for newthings. There is no Hall of Fame. There is only memory and change. Nothing (the opposite of newthing) and no one are immune. The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. To do this, newthing must counterintuitively accept that one day it will die. If newthing accepts the certainty of death, howev
... See moreThere is no heaven for newthings. There is no Hall of Fame. There is only memory and change. Nothing (the opposite of newthing) and no one are immune.
The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. The longer it does this, the stronger and more itself it will become.
The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. The longer it does this, the stronger and more itself it will become.
Life is a breathing-in and breathing-out. A child is born, an old one dies. It’s a chain, a living, rippling, sinuous, serpentine ladder. Our genes are a holographic depiction, a biological reflection of the great chain.
Richard Rudd • The 64 Ways: Personal Contemplations on the Gene Keys
The notion of a chain connecting past ancestors, present lives and future descendants is very vivid in pre-literate cultures and probably in humanity’s shared prehistory.