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...functions--be they in insect, worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers and so on--that when mixed and matched will spell the shape of any gene's product. About 1,000 of these structures--and the genes that code for them--have already been cataloged...
...understanding of consciousness, despite the efforts of some of the best minds in science. And perhaps you're even right that we may never understand it. But what is the evidence for your position? You've criticized scientists for having faith--a dirty word in the scientific lexicon--that our era of explosive progress will continue unabated. Isn't it at least as much a leap to think that the progress will abruptly end--particularly since the trajectory of discoveries so far suggests just the opposite, that supposedly unanswerable questions eventually do get answered...
...have supported TECH from the beginning, but I've been surprised by the diversity of its reception. The need, I thought, was clear. Suppose I want to pursue a distance education project, to set up a hyper-linked classical lexicon, or script an international math-help bulletin board to study the way children learn. An institute, rather than a computer science affiliation, would provide the perfect opportunity...
TECH as I see it would be a center where students can explore technology, see what they think of it, figure out how it works and how it can fit into their own areas of study. Perhaps a great new SGML lexicon will come out of it, but equally likely may be holographic psychology studies or smart fabrics. The academic and applied study of computer science have something to learn from each other...
...trillions of copies inside each one of us--is not even a metaphor. It is literally true. A book is a piece of digital information, written in linear, one-dimensional and one-directional form and defined by a code that transliterates a small alphabet of signs into a large lexicon of meanings through the order of their groupings. So is a genome...