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Afterlife is other people
(Soul Biology, Sonnet 2476)
Like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature, and ultimately
disperse into nature, our identity,
our memory, emotions, everything -
then the only place we exist is
in the memories of other people, whose
lives we might have influenced in some way.
There is no transference of soul,
the way our primitive ancestors believed;
soul is just electrochemical response of
uniquely individual makeup of organic matter,
once that
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― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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The actual mechanics of cell division, according to Dick McIntosh at the University of Denver, require significantly more instructions than it takes to build a moon rocket or supercomputer. First of all, the cell needs to duplicate all of its molecules, that is DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, etc. At the organelle level, several hundred mitochondria, large areas of ER, new Golgi bodies, cytoskeletal structures, and ribosomes by the million all need to be duplicated so that the daughter cells have en
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― The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
― The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
