NEW No Person Inside Me Flashcards
- You are just 10 per cent human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. You are more ‘them’ than you are ‘you’. Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them, like a coral reef growing on the rugged seabed that is your intestine. Around 4,000 different species carve out their own little niches, nestled among folds that give your 1.5-metres-long colon the surface area of a double bed. Over your lifetime, you will play host to bugs the equivalent weight of five African elephants. Your skin is crawling with them. There are more on your fingertip than there are people in Britain.
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- DNA is a ladder of four linked molecules. DNA of one human if layed out would reach to the moon and back three thousand times.
What would one strand of our DNA look like if we typed the characters out on paper, say using #12 font size, how much type would this be?
Remember that each strand of DNA averages 4 billion characters in each chromosome. (you have 23 chromosomes in each cell by the way)
So 4 billion characters typed out would be … 129.5 typed characters equals one foot of text.
4 billion/129.5 equals 30,888,030 feet of text characters.
So just one single strand of DNA typed out in #12 font would be a string of characters 30 Million feet long!
This would equal 5,850 miles.
So if a DNA match is 99%, like a monkey DNA match to a human, then the proof is irrefutable!
A 99% match of a character string 30,000,000 feet long is extremely strong evidence.
All of your body’s DNA combined is even more massive. If you lined up in single file it would reach:
A: To the Sun 100 times
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B: To the moon and back 3,000 times. Take your pick.
Eternal life?
People think they are going to live forever. The person you think is you living inside your body does not exist. That person is simply a confabulation of your brain. If you would seriously study your brain, you would know for a fact that your brain makes up things and presents them to you like they are real.
A really good book that explains this is “Your mind is what your brain does for a living”, by Steven J. Fogel.
Another good brain book is “Brain Rules” by John Medina (Neuroscientist).
The sense that you exist as a person is located in your Amygdala. The Amygdala is located in the bottom center of your brain. It is the size of an almond and you have one in both hemispheres of your brain.
This is what you really look like. Not your body, but the little almond in your brain. The Amygdala is you. Nothing but billions of neurons and synapses.
Every emotion, every hope, every thought, every goal, every worry, every happiness comes out of your Amygdala. When you die, you are brain dead and cease to exist anymore. Sad but true.
If you had children, brothers or sisters, even cousins, your genes would continue to live in a microscopic world like they are living right now. Your DNA, if not destroyed, would last billions of years. Your DNA IS NOT ALIVE. It is a blueprint of you.
Your DNA has a history of existence for billions of years. Your genes have lived and changed a tremendous amount of times. They evolved all the way from early life in the water, eons ago.
Your genes have already been living for billions of years!
If you think you have a conscious memory outside of your life inside your body, answer these questions:
Do you remember when you were part of a star? Do you remember when you were algae? Or when you were a worm? When you were worm shit? When you were a cauliflower? How about a fish? Or a reptile?
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