January 15, 2007There are mysteries about "communication" that only a tiny few understand on this planet -- this could be the most important of all Karl Loren's articles!Dear !fname, People often wonder how I find the stuff I do? Karl Loren uses guiding criteria to judge whether his research is leading in the right direction or the wrong direction. One rule is that the findings of his research must lead to a MORE simple understanding of the subject, not a greater complication of the subject. Biochemists have unraveled what were once the central mysteries of life, and have begun to fill in the details. They have traced how molecular machines break food molecules into their building blocks and then reassemble these parts to build and renew tissue. Many details of the structure of human cells remain unknown (single cells have billions of large molecules of thousands of different kinds), but biochemists have mapped every part of some viruses. Biochemical laboratories often sport a large wall chart showing how the chief molecular building blocks flow through bacteria. Biochemists understand much of the process of life in detail, and what they don't understand seems to operate on the same principles. The mystery of heredity has become the industry of genetic engineering. Even embryonic development and memory are being explained in terms of changes in biochemistry and cell structure. (source) This excerpt shows that there is a tremendous complexity of detail just in one single cell. If understanding that cell required development and understanding of all that complexity it should be obvious that this research would never finish. There is MUCH research floating around just now that is of just this type. Karl's approach would be to look for more simple explanations of the function and structure of cells than by looking into the infinite complexity that, surely, does exist.
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