HAR 1 - Special Gene - Only Human - From the Stars, Evolution, Aliens or God?
They have recently drawn a name for the only gene that humans have that is not also in other mammals. For those misanthropes among us, you could say: "Aha, the killer, war making gene", but for the rest of us less enlightened it is the peace making, come let us reason together, let's draw pictures in the sand and make love, just because we can gene. Whatever makes us human. Now that's a complicated one. I can't wait until they can study this gene more. A world of contradictory complexities I bet.
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HAR1 - The Special Human Gene and Why it Could Be the Real Pandora's Box
There is an old backward drunken phrase from the denizen of those kinds of thoughts - Texas. It makes perfect sense to a drunk. And it seems quite appropriate at this point in the Human DNA discussion. After years studying the human genome (only 5% is really accessible and comprehensive to us right now) There is this "HAR 1" that is only human. Scientists can stare at it and philosophers and ponderers and religionists can go cross-eyed speculating about it. The point is: It was there a very long time ago. And it is with us now. Perhaps it is the thing that keeps on making us progress (technologically, industrially, scientifically). So, "we feel more like we do now than we did when we came in". This HAR 1 declares by its very existence that there is a genetic distinction that makes us human. It is not in any other creature, no other mammal. Of course, this only begins the discussion, and that's where I intend to start.
Quick, Quick, With The Arguments
"When we came in". Now there is where the contention begins. There is the creationist take: God said, "I'm gonna make me a man!" And the HAR 1 started. Evolutionists say: "Throw some millions of years around and it could evolve". Alien Incursionists/Interventionists claim. "It came from outer space". Thus, HAR 1 is probably one of the key remnants of the alien DNA that we got when they said: "We are going to make us a homo sapien from this here Ape."
The point of this article is not to try to reconcile these arguments, or to persuade one or two to go over to the other point of view. That would be like trying to get a Buddhist, a Western Hedonist Secularist and an Islamist to agree. But rather this HAR 1 is the part of our code that ALLOWS us to argue.
HAR 1 - "Hardee harhar". "What you say?" "We are so much more civilized than those guys over there."
This guy is the thing that allows us to laugh. Do dogs laugh? (Forget hyenas for the moment). Amazement, scorn and awe. These are the human things that make this life worth living. Whenever this HAR 1 came in, or got configured or evolved, it made us distinctly "children of God", "Alien subdudes" or highly evolved "tricky dicky Apes". Again, however it happened, it made us us. It made us able to argue, pose subjective points of view, invent religion, establish science, think of the idea of research, write books about behavior, create traditions of law, love, civilization and war. It allows us to become skeptical, superior, arrogant, noisome irritating obnoxious types or "loverly" little girls.
The fact that we came up with the ability to stare down into the Human Genome came from HAR 1 is what is amazing. The fact that no one has told us about "beginnings" means that it is through HAR 1 that we can even discuss beginnings. Taken to its height. You can see how HAR 1 has led us to kill with justification in the act of war. The nuances of law and they are nuanced, all must tip their hat to the human ability to reason, make distinctions decide why this exceptional point should rule, and why this less than elegant point should dominate. The ability to decide between the irreconcilable and come to a new epiphany from a mass of confusing data.
Self Interest, Social Interest and Human Interest
HAR 1, the only element that is distinctive from animals, is an elegant gift because it allows us to be selfish, to be socially concerned and to be aware of all of us --- and we can do them all at the same time. And just like fighting for Democracy means you may be fighting for the freedom of a man who wants to spit on your grave, HAR 1 means that we can conjure up dreams from animalistic imagination to create a reason for pushing citizens into special situations that they were not born to -- all in the name of some "good". And so, if you want to give yourself a headache, think of all the things that mankind does that are first engendered because they come from some good (and how bad they end up being for most). This little DNA construction is probably likened to a famous Greek Symbol.
Pandora's Box
People have been writing about the symbolism of Pandora's Box for generations. I would like to pose another. The study of the Human Genome as the decades go on will be the source of so much confusion, clarity, argument and insight, that we can not possibly see it now. But, alas, as the decades have passed, I predict that the Study of the Human Genome will be the Ultimate Pandora's Box.
What is your HAR 1 Rating?
Perhaps at some time in the future a test will be devised which can demonstrate how much or how highly or how sophisticatedly you use your HAR 1.
"I have a 95 rating, what is yours?"
"They say he was a great guy, but his HAR 1 rating was ridiculously low. His epitaph will be that he was a fantastic actor."
"They say that her HAR 1 rating is so high that it is difficult for her to even socialize with the rest of us low lifes"
"Everybody in that family had super low HAR 1, then outcomes this great humanistic artist".
Infallible?
Just a few years ago, you would have a very hard time even explaining "cap and trade" and why those taxes should even exist. Just a few decades ago, the idea that there should be laws with a "social conscience" was very far from most people's consciousness. This HAR 1 makes us human, but you know what I know? It does not make us infallible. Because we are fallible, and the most fallible are the ones who think they are not fallible. A whole line of research could be developed over how our sense of righteousness, importance, intelligence and profundity all lead us down very dark roads. As you think about being human, and what ultimately the study of HAR 1 might reap, is that it leads us inevitably with the challenge that we have been fighting with over the millennia: "How do we reconcile what we feel we know?"
And this doubt should inform us. It might be advisable to think about where humility and modesty and self-reflection come from. Perhaps that will be the ultimate legacy of HAR 1. When we can delve more deeply into our biological makeup and thus the psychological profile of homo sapien, maybe we will discover oddities, profundities and sensibilities that make us fall back in dismay, or reach for the stars in triumph. No one knows, but you have to admit it is an incredible mystery.
HAR1 - The Special Human Gene and Why it Could Be the Real Pandora's Box
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