Tuesday, January 23, 2018
The return: optimizing gene expression
I believe we need to optimize the gene
expression we inherited from our ancient human ancestors, not only in
what we eat (eg. paleo diet) and how we exercise, but in which
cultures and political systems we create. This is what truly
bolsters our physical and mental health. We have gotten far away from
the real human nature we inherited from our ancestors and we need to
go back to a healthy expression of who we are.
Our cells monitor themselves and their
environment. According to the experts in this field our cells take internal and external signals, analyze them,
and then decide if a gene product is needed. Gene
expression is the regulation of the process of a heritable
trait in an individual carrying the gene or genes that determine it.
In every human culture ever studied
human nature included, among other things, kin-selection preferences,
incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender
differentiation, localism, group-selection and even ethnocentrism. If a culture
proposes to not include these things the culture does not last long
and it will always return to these things. These biological traits also happen
to be at the core of conservatism, whereas many of these things are
missing in, say, communism, modern liberalism, and post-modernism.
This
strongly suggests that real human nature leads naturally to the
cultural expression of regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism
of ethnostates, protected by some sort of federalism. Given who we
are this appears to be the best way we can optimize the gene
expression we inherited from our human ancestors.
And
then to ground this worldview as deeply as possible we need a
religious philosophy to express the
material evolution of life to supermaterial Godhood, as seen in the
philosophy of theological materialism, with the cultural forms and
bonding which can enhance ongoing evolution for all of us.
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