Chapter 124: Genetics’ Role in Saving the World

by Darryl Penney

Abstract: it has been a long-held view that genetics will see our civilisation ‘right’ in the future, but genes are too complicated to play with, we are stressing our world through unrestrained population growth and time is running out. However, a new view of the construction of the universe allows a glimmer of hope that we can firstly, improve our genes simply and easily on a personal basis, if we so choose and secondly, control population. This new approach shows where epigenetics fits into evolution and shows that genes are the creation equation of Life and how they can be manipulated organisationally to the betterment of our civilisation. The first step is to ensure that genetics does not waste time in repeating the mistakes of physics and secondly, technology, when organisationally contained, provides a simple solution in everyone’s best interest.

The abstract, above, needs, I think, to be expanded because the new approach to the construction of the universe is significantly different to what we consider the universe to be. Relativity says that everything is really two things [orthogonal, independent but entangled], so genetics is not one thing, but two things that I call genetics [physical] and orgenics [organisational genetics] and if genetics is too complicated for our present technology, perhaps orgenics is more amenable? This appears to be the case, but only when the new ideas are applied because the success story of Newtonian physics is based on energy and fundamental modern physics has been ‘shut down’ for a hundred years [http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-philosophy-religion/tim-maudlin-defeat-reason] because Einstein introduced organisation in the form of curved space. Genetics cannot be allowed to deal with epigenetics in the same way that physics is constructed, as economics tried to do last century [physics and genetics are physical and economics and orgenics are organisational], because epigenetics is only a small part of the organisation that entangles all of Life.

To expand, physics is physical and tries to ignore the input of the measurer [and comes undone as the speed of light is constant relative to the measurer, as are quantum mechanics etc.] and economics tried to emulate physics, but economics is a function of Life and was found to be orthogonal to philosophy [The First Step, below]. Genetics is a combination of the physical [genetics] and of Life in the form of civilisation [orgenics] and immediately we see the way to understand and manipulate our civilisation. It is crucial to consider that in a fractal world, there is simplicity [concept] and complication in the form of context at the same time and this all comes from the creation equation [generator] (1+(-1))=0. We can leave the physical genetics to the future because we have ample scope in orgenics, the absolutes and the derived truths that we see around us to restart evolution and limit population using a democracy that is immediately apparent from the creation equation [in the form of a probability space (a+b)=1 for all a, b]

A common perception of genetics as ‘The Selfish Gene’ gives the wrong impression because the gene is the concept and selfish is the context and that muddle shows that genetics needs a re-think, and it needs a rethink because the concept of a gene will take us nowhere, but the context of the gene is the key to managing humanity and it is not understood sufficiently to be useful in ‘Saving the World’. Let’s face it, in this century we save the world, or we lose the opportunity! Civilisation is the managing of a context, between people that have a (somewhat) common genome, bound by a restriction called parenting and to manage the numbers to protect the environment, as a good parasite must do, we must apply a further restriction, the control of population in two ways, firstly, the number [concept] and secondly, the quality [context].

The accompanying ‘box’ explains that everything is relative to something else and that our universe is constructed from ‘absolutes’ that are ratios of relatives that ‘strip out’ the relativity. In other words, the gene is constructed of matter/energy and relativistically speaking, it must have an associated organisation that accords with the creation equation (1+(-1))=0. I call this genetic organisation the ‘orgene’ and it has the ‘restriction’ that it is not logical. A restriction is a requirement for existence, such as that the creation equation only exists when ‘1’ and ‘(-1)’ do not come into contact and that can occur (simply and logically) if the universe that contains them is expanding and we call this expansion the Big Bang [the reason for the Big Bang is left ‘in the air’ by physics]. The creation equation, I believe, affects us in a peculiar way in out daily life when we laugh at a joke because the laugh is the release of the energy that is orthogonal to the sudden realisation [organisation] of the punchline [under review by The Lancet].

The restriction of the orgene is that an organism producing offspring is not logical because it produces competitors, but it is necessary if the species is to survive [offspring present choice]. If the creation equation shows the form of the universe [concept], its orthogonal, the logic of the half-truth [context] shows the working of the universe [and makes choices]. Looking at the genetic base, the gene is energy/matter, but the orgene is entanglement with everything else [context] associated with the organism’s functioning. Being selfish is just one aspect of an infinite number of options, the major being the evolution of a mind/brain to better interact with its environment to find food and another example was the evolution of efficient eyes that allowed planning and ‘action at a distance’ that ushered in the Cambrian with teeth, bones, plates for defence etc. that we find as fossils.

Consider the quotation that ‘epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotype changes that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix epi- in epigenetics implies features that are “on top of” or “in addition to” the traditional genetic basis for inheritance.’ (Wikipedia) Immediately it can be seen that the definition is not all-inclusive and is misleading because genetics and orgenics are orthogonal, which means that they are independent, but entangled and further, that genetics and orgenics are bottom-up concepts, whereas epigenetics is top-down and incomplete.

Conclusion: epigenetics is not only an addition to genetics, but expresses a context that shows that the gene, as a concept, is a fractal that invades every aspect of life and is Life’s creation equation. Relativistically, a concept cannot exist without a context and the concept of a gene forces an organisation [context] that produces epigenetics and a whole lot more that defines evolution. Ten thousand years ago we left survival of the fittest [respect/defence orthogonality] for one of our own design that has endangered the planet through unrestrained population growth and now we must take control by using ‘survival of the best’ by implementing the two restrictions, above [quality and quantity].

Prediction: a conclusion [concept] cannot exist without a prediction [context] due to relativity and this leads to a fundamental restriction that is as unassailable as the expanding universe, wave/particle duality etc. and in this case, is the specialist/generalist divide, where for simplicity, in the limit, that ‘the specialist knows everything about little and the generalist knows little about everything’. Thus the orgene is the key to solving the world’s population problems because it brings geneticist and sociologist together as specialist/generalist and allows economists to monetise the desire to have children. This desire to continually replace the species is a truth of such magnitude that everyone of us has an unbroken chain of ancestors reaching back 3,000 million years, but this desire, to have children, is subject to simple manipulation in a modern civilisation.

Organisational entanglement shows that Newtonian physics needs updating to general mathematical physics by including organisation, and genetics likewise, within the same general mathematical physics, by sideways [creation equation] and up/down [organisational truth] orthogonality. Once this relationship is realised it can be seen that we can manipulate both the number of people on the Earth by financial means and their phenotype by the democratic selection of mothers and thus restart evolution. Technology has progressed to enable us to do strange things, such as women are harvesting eggs for use at a later, than nature allows, time in their lives. This approach is new, and as an example, the law of gravitation and Coulomb’s law of charges are derived [for the first time, that I know] from the absolute [energy/distance ratio] and relativity. [The actual derivation, box below, is under consideration by the American Journal of Physics] These simple laws are (literally) obvious using this approach and yet Newton and Einstein were unable to derive them using traditional physics because physics does not embrace organisation.

Saving the World – The First Step – The Mechanics of Decision – When Economics Embraces Philosophy and Dumps Physics refers to the reference at the beginning, above, and has been sent to the Australian Journal of Business and Economic Studies and considers an enigmatic, fundamental failure in management that appears to have led to the Bay of Pigs fiasco that can be understood and corrected by this approach. The Second Step – Forecasting Chaos and The Third Step – The Holy Grail are in draft and form a proposed plan for discussion when and if required and this letter is simply a fore-runner that prepares the way for changes in thinking that have to come about, for this to happen.

Finally, no references are cited because everything can be derived simply from the first principles and the examples given above. However, it is pointless ‘reinventing the wheel’ and most of it will be on my website darrylpenney.com when required.

In the beginning there was nothing (0) and it is a property of orthogonality to make two independent things, but entangled [at the origin], such as (1) and (-1) [first fractal] and that forces the second fractal (1+(-1))=0 [this equation I call the creation equation because it yields the form of the universe] and it’s orthogonal is the logic of the half-truth [true, false, both true and false simultaneously] that yields ‘physical choice’ [shimmer presents opportunities for a reaction through the wave/particle duality] that leads to the working of the universe [‘a single particle could seemingly span a field as would a wave, a paradox still eluding satisfactory explanation’ Wikipedia, Elementary particle]. Life employs a mind/brain to make better choices based on the structure of the probability equation [mathematics of concept/context] in the brain as well as thought [(-1), organisation] from the burning of a simple sugar [(1), glucose]. That is the answer to the above, but with a ‘twist’ because Life uses a probability space [(a+b)=1] that is similar to the measuring space [(1+(-1))=0], but allows all concepts a, b to be considered.

Notice that the creation equation exits only if (1) and (-1) are kept apart and this logic requires an expanding universe, which we have [Big Bang], and this expansion produces the dimensions of space-time, energy and organisation The equation also says that everything is relative to something else, with no exceptions, except that ratios naturally become absolutes and they are the conservation of (total) energy/organisation [energy/time], constant speed of light [distance/time], dark energy [energy/space] and gravity [energy/separation] and this becomes the principle of relativity in a measuring space [and replaces the present one that the laws of physics are the same in constantly moving frames]. The absolutes produce stability – the first leads to Occam’s razor and the principle of least action, the second to the constant [to the measurer, Michelson-Morley] speed of light, the third to the infill energy/organisation [dark energy] to balance the expanding energy/organisation of the universe and the fourth to gravity.

The limitations of Newtonian physics have made gravity an enigma for a long time and I believe, it is not an attraction [Newton], not ‘bent’ space that introduced organisation and shut down modern physics for a hundred years [Einstein, deflection of a photon by a solar mass], but simply an absolute [energy-organisation/distance], where all matter is composed of energy and organisation and the doubling effect that Einstein (eventually) found is due to relativity where:

Attraction equals E(1)/d times E(2)/d plus O(1)/d times O(2)/d where E is energy, O is organisation and d is the separation of two masses (1) and (2).

This leads to twice the Newtonian value where only energy is considered and is in line with Einstein’s finding. Notice that this is the first time that Newton’s law of gravitation has been derived because Newton used an ‘inspired reasoning’ [Robert Hooke maintained that it was stolen from him] and Einstein used an ‘analogy’. Clearly, this explanation shows that the inverse-square law has nothing to do with it!

We now understand gravity completely in that it’s effect has and will always be constant, it cannot exist except between two objects [relativity], its value depends only on the total amount of energy/organisation and the separation and shimmer [from particle to wave] has no effect because two terms are involved as a sum. Also, the equation E=mc2 is misleading because mass and energy are the same thing and the equation is a conversion of the units that we have assigned, but what is not so obvious is that all of energy/mass and all of organisation contribute equally [relativity]. It was accepted in Newton’s time that mass had an attraction and in Einstein’s time that energy [photon] had the same attraction, but the fact that organisation had an attraction [curved space] and gave the correct experimental answer was a ‘step too far’ and fundamental physics closed down.

This enigma is a result of the short-comings of Newtonian physics, and it is not an enigma when it is realised that energy and organisation are ‘two sides of the same coin’ and further, that this complexity is a mathematical physics solution because the first orthogonality [energy/organisation] produces a second where, in part, organisation gives gravity [organisation] and energy [of gravity] through the absolute. To maintain the condition that universe is expanding [(1) and (-1) kept separate] gravity must be a solution and be non-zero because a zero gravity produces random walk, which, in the limit, is not stable. The “e” in Euler’s equation determines a constantly growing universe [“e” is the driver in compounded interest].

From above, the statement that ‘the absolutes produce stability’ needs expansion, firstly, ‘the absolutes produce stability’ is, of course, true because they define the structure of the universe, secondly, ‘Occam’s razor and the principle of least action’ are an organisational requirement that only the simplest and least energetic response is possible if the organisation is to have unique answers. In other words, the universe does measures organisation and the measurement requires that the lowest energy be used [first absolute]. Thirdly, the requirement that all of energy/mass, length and time obey the Lorentz contraction together is an organisational requirement in that it is simpler that all change proportionately than to list an order of change.

Fourthly, compare the treatment of organisation in Newtonian physics where organisation is allowed upon experiment or peer review. The English philosopher, Francis Bacon was correct that physics must be based on experiment because [repeatable] experiment is a truth, but we can also use the long-term effects of evolution as truths [an experiment] and ‘thought’ experiments based on the absolutes and their logic. ‘The general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method’. (Wikipedia) For example, ‘in loco parentis’ passes from parent to offspring and not visa versa as the major religions demand. Peer review is a half-truth that is true only for specialist subjects and false for general subjects because specialists think differently to generalists [relativity] plus two truths are violated [relativity, and evolution (the established resist change)]. Notice the ‘thread’ that I am using is not the usual [ancient Greeks to Newton to Einstein to the Snow White effect], but a different successful thread [ancient Greeks to Bacon (experimental truth) to this theory (absolutes, experimental truths and evolutionary truths)]

Fifthly, the principle of relativity, stated above could also be called the principle of orthogonality because they are relative to each other and everything contains elements that are either the same or independent to something else and it is the orthogonals that form the basis of the mathematics of concept/context that is immediately apparent from the probability equation.

Coulomb’s law for charges is similar in form to Newton’ law, and many people must have, like I, wondered about this, and both are, [inappropriately as it turns out] associated with the inverse square law [a single mass, charge or magnetic pole cannot exit]. A simple explanation is to use the fractalness that the neutron [mass] is a special case of energy [photon] and orthogonates to a proton, electron and a neutrino and that Newton’s law describes the mass attraction, whilst Coulomb’s law describes the charge attraction. Obviously they must be equivalent, apart from sign and magnitude.