On Conception, Birth, and DNA
Q&A with Bernardo
So many great questions on this theme were submitted for on our session on the body, that we've scheduled this as a stand-alone evening.
Below are some of the great questions submitted, which you can find and further discuss at the bottom of this page:
Amir Giles
THE BODY AND BOUNDARIES IN PREGNANCY - Rachel Clemesha
There are maternal Maternal–fetal exchange (cells, hormones, etc.) The two nervous systems are dynamically coupled.
How should we interpret this connection of two alters ?
Does the newborn experience a continuity of consciousness across delivery , or does the boundary’s relocation entail a brief subject-level discontinuity?
HOW DOES THE FUNCTIONING OF DNA, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO CONCEPTION, FIT WITHIN ANALYTICAL IDEALISM - Stan Beremski
It seems that at a certain point in the process of life what can be said to be inanimate is somehow reconfigured to be animate and living. In other words a new dissociative boundary is created.
What role does DNA play in all of this and how is the transition from inanimate to animate handled in specific terms by the theory?
WHAT CONNECTION DO YOU ESTABLISH BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND GENETIC MUTATIONS (in utero and not in utero)? Zara Sumodhee
In some belief systems, the occurrence of genetic mutations that cause diseases serves to make the family and/or society aware of certain dysfunctions (certainly dissociative ones). This aligns with Penrose's theory, in which the collapse of the wave function is the origin of consciousness. However, according to Wigner's theory, it is consciousness that is the origin of the collapse of the wave function. In other words, one could hypothesize that overly dissociative states of consciousness led to the genetic mutation. The two theories would not contradict each other but would suggest that it is a cycle aimed at safeguarding the information most useful for the survival of a family and a society from a global perspective, thus connecting with Integrated Information Theory (IIT). However, the occurrence of a genetic mutation can sometimes be the origin of an awakening of consciousness, and sometimes a collapse. This depends on the intensity of the observer's consciousness. What do you think of this and the notion of the intensity of consciousness? Do you think that states of superposition of consciousness can exist? Particularly when a person who sees this kind of situation as an opportunity to grow manages to impose their mindset on another person who sees the situation as a collapse when they are together.
WHAT CAN WE INFER ABOUT AGING AND DISEASE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT THE BODY IS WHAT DISSOCIATION LOOKS LIKE? - Deborah Chen
I’m wondering if aging is a crumbling of the dissociative boundary, progressing toward death, when the boundary dissolves.