Making It Happen: Gift of 'Think'
The idea of a genetically engineered organism is hailed as a sci-fi creation is, to the general population. To others more aware, the consensus is that GMO's, or genetically modified organisms in our food, are an 'experiment on the masses.' Regardless, it's happening. Whether individuals like it or not. I won't get into the debate of whether GMO's are good for us or not. So what's the likelihood an animal can receive consciousness? What are the chances of this happening? Realistically, probably really low. The amount of information stored in our DNA that we don't know yet is truly remarkable. We all know that the four defining molecules in DNA giving the actual information are adenine, which pairs with thymine, and cytosine, which pairs with guanine. We can assume that one single base pair can hold 4 bytes, as demonstrated below. DNA Data Possibilities There are 6e9 base pairs in a human cell according to bitesizebio.com. Divide that in hal...