On Horoscope and understanding your DNA
Where to turn to for personal answers? How predictable is my next move?
It happens on and off that friends are asking for my zodiac to read me the horoscope out of a magazine or newspapers. The fun part of it - in most cases you can twist your thoughts to adapt it to your situation - to make (kind of) sense. That gift of ours - to adapt answers - can be of use, but also fool us into none existing limits.
A lot of (more or less scientific) methodes have been developed to read sources and interpret - to find personal answers. How good do they work? As good as you believe in them?
Reminds me of the "Cause and Effect" scene in Matrix Reloaded:
Now while the controversial methodes found their fans and believers - there is a new way that caught my attention: interpreting your DNA (aka genes).
A scientific and statistical approach - apply generic research on your personal genes - and calculate the odds. Your genes don't change - but research results do over time (they should get more accurate). How good are the answers today? My eye color: "56% chance of brown eyes; 37% chance of green eyes; 7% chance of blue eyes." - green tells me the mirror. Am I lactose intolerance? No, according to my SNP rs4988235. What does rs363050 with genotype AA do for me? "Subjects averaged about three IQ points higher." (compared to Baseline AG)
That reminds me of another movie - Gattaca. While it was futuristic in 1997 - it seems strangely realistic today.
It's going to be interesting to see, what we are going to make out of these answers.. - I'm sure the human thrive to understand will change perception of a lot that is uncertain today.. (for good and bad)
I end with the tagline of Gattaca: There is no gene for the human spirit.
It happens on and off that friends are asking for my zodiac to read me the horoscope out of a magazine or newspapers. The fun part of it - in most cases you can twist your thoughts to adapt it to your situation - to make (kind of) sense. That gift of ours - to adapt answers - can be of use, but also fool us into none existing limits.
A lot of (more or less scientific) methodes have been developed to read sources and interpret - to find personal answers. How good do they work? As good as you believe in them?
Reminds me of the "Cause and Effect" scene in Matrix Reloaded:
Now while the controversial methodes found their fans and believers - there is a new way that caught my attention: interpreting your DNA (aka genes).
A scientific and statistical approach - apply generic research on your personal genes - and calculate the odds. Your genes don't change - but research results do over time (they should get more accurate). How good are the answers today? My eye color: "56% chance of brown eyes; 37% chance of green eyes; 7% chance of blue eyes." - green tells me the mirror. Am I lactose intolerance? No, according to my SNP rs4988235. What does rs363050 with genotype AA do for me? "Subjects averaged about three IQ points higher." (compared to Baseline AG)
That reminds me of another movie - Gattaca. While it was futuristic in 1997 - it seems strangely realistic today.
It's going to be interesting to see, what we are going to make out of these answers.. - I'm sure the human thrive to understand will change perception of a lot that is uncertain today.. (for good and bad)
I end with the tagline of Gattaca: There is no gene for the human spirit.
