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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
The almost obvious case for a transcendental understanding of life
1Rochester, NY, USA. tchrist7@rochester.rr.com
Abstract:
The follow-up to the Human Genome Project has found very little to connect variations in our DNA blueprints to some of our basic individual characteristics. This very surprising "missing heritability" problem, plus a number of existing underappreciated challenges to the DNA-based model, together are consistent with an underlying complementary transcendental contribution to life. Some of the behavioral challenges for DNA and the material-only model are quite suggestive of transcendental contributions. This possible overlap between an apparent hole in the scientific understanding of life and the common premodern transcendental perspective is introduced here.
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