Quote:Other than the plans for the construction of your physical form, what other information could the double helix contain?
I don't know. I had the opportunity to go see the genome project when it was in Philadelphia, but had to change plans at the last minute, so I missed it.
I'm almost afraid to post this, because I could very well be wrong (science is not my strong point and when I last took a biology course, dna hadn't been mapped) but my impression is that all the characteristics that are considered to be the result of genetic inheritance are contained in the strands of dna. That would include various aptitudes, skills, and potential for talent, intelligence, and tendencies-in short, most of what makes an individual uniquely who they are. And then to what extent those aptitudes and skills and that potential is developed depends on various environmental factors.
Is that correct?
But I like what one poster said about being given a life and then adopting a consciousness that transforms that life one way or another. It reminds me of another thing I'm sure you've heard, "Everyone has two lives, the one they're given and the one that they make". (Again, I don't know who to attribute it to, I just know I've read it or heard it).
Maybe the life that an individual makes is influenced by "the knowledge about the lives stored in their DNA" that he or she somehow "knows" without knowing how or why they know it.