Lee Hadden wrote:
>> Just getting around to reading a weekend of backlogged email so this is late,
> but not untimely.
>> My suggestion wasn't referring to a private chat room -- one of those group
> talk sites was more what I had in mind for a larger dialog on the questions
> you pose, with us all joining in at one session. But you show your hand
> again and you're right, as you
> probably tend to be--it would be a waste of time. Thanks for your questions;
> you've made that Ginkgo tree issue look more important and appealing than
> ever......
>> L Hadden
Dennis G. wrote:
> If life, plant or otherwise, has fixed limits to growth set by the genome, then
> the limits of variation are fixed. Presumably, by 'god'.
GH: This is interesting intuitive phraseology now that you mention it.
As a physicist I'm seeking a "maximal generalization" of the
NATURE-NURTURE situation for biological organisms. To that end,
I advance the following proposition:
12-18-2000 HAMMOND'S LAW OF AUXOLOGY
In general plants and animals have a predetermined
adult genetic size, this is referred to as their
NATURE. However, observation leads us to conclude
that in fact, the population MEAN adult size of any
species in the natural environment always manifests a
significant "asymptotic growth curve decrement" showing
that in effect, no living organism has yet been able to
achieve it's theoretical genetic size. This NURTURE
effect is referred to as a "Universal Growth Curve
Deficit".
In fact, in human beings, the long slow historical
reduction of this growth deficit is scientifically known
as the "Secular Trend". It is posited that there is
in fact, a Secular Trend for ALL living organisms, and
probably more rapid the higher the organism.
Finally, it is advanced that this growth deficit in
the case of the human brain, directly provides the
neuropsychological causation of the psychological
phenomena historically identified as "God".
If I could have your reaction to that thesis, I would be
quite interested.
Hammond
> Dennis
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