April(?) 2000, Dov to HBG forum. This is an attempt to open and maintain a Topic Board to relate to “nature-of-life“ items, including such items picked from other HBG Topic Boards, with the attitudes/conjectures/concepts underlying Dov’s “Origin/Nature of Life” pre-print. Will open with comments on some statements by DA: A) DA: A gene effects a…
Jan 2000, Dov to HBG, re DA’s Jan 03 2000 posting. DA, I admire your wonderful way with words and your vivid adjectives in reference to the ants and their brain, and who wouldn’t accept your succinct observation re the formation and function of their brain. But I do not understand why these matters evoke…
June (?) 2000, Dov to SA, HBG forum director, upon termination of the forum. Dear SA, A few days ago I was prunning the hedge around our yard as a neighbor passed and said (in Hebrew, of course) “Shalom, Dov, how are you ?” and I answered “Todah, Cha’yim” i.e. “thanks, life goes on…” and…
December 7, 1999, Dov to SA. SA, On your 23 Nov 1999 e-message to me you raised the subject of nucleotide polymerization. My expertise is the relationship between synthetic polymers’ structures and all their properties – physical /chemical/processing/functional/aging under various conditions etc., But if forced to express a conjecture on early bio-polymerization I would start…
Sept 05 1999, in HBG forum, re “cell as the selected base unit of life”, posted by Dov on September 04, 1999: DH: Why “autoorganization”? what is this AUTO? Are we afraid to call what we see? Is the so plainly obvious scheme of Earthly life such a shock to us and such an insult…
Dec 1999, Dov to SA, Heraclitean Biology Forum, re (“The Origin Of Life Foundation”) base form of life. Dov: As usual, DA says it best: “If we are going to point to the arbitrariness of human definitions, why don’t we face up to the utter arbitrariness of declaring that…” the base form of life is…
May 16, 2000, Dov to HBG, Science, and religion Dear HBG members and friends, This is an attempt to stir up a lively participation, hoping that it might be helpful for the continuation of this good site. “God and Evolution” versus “Science and Religion”. I confess that I am one of those who shudder at…
28 January 1999, to N-HEXA. I read that the finding that mice neural stem cells transported into bone marrow churned out blood cells is an “unexplained transformation”. Does not each and every cell in a cellular-cluster life-form contain ALL the genetic material but expresses ONLY the portion of the genes uniquely required (planned, instructed) in…