[ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Jason Resch via extropy-chat
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>>…Regarding the notion of our being one of 200 million possible distinct people who could have been conceived rather than ourself, this is a vast understatement, upon which I will comment in a subsequent post.

 

>…I look forward to this.   Jason 

 

 

 

In some forms of assisted conception, an ovum is penetrated and injected with sperm (intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI.))  As a thought experiment, imagine a particular ovum and a particular sperm.  The DNA from each combines to form a new nucleus distinct from each of the two constituents.  With those same two cells, the sperm and the ovum, if we could run the clock backwards and repeat the procedure, are there multiple different ways those two DNA constituents combine?  

 

Here’s the Khan Academy version of it but you might know a better source:

 

https://en.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/behavior/human-development/v/egg-sperm-and-fertilization

 

If the experiment could be repeated a skerjillion times with the same sperm cell and the same ovum, the DNA from each experiment would combine differently each time.

 

Jason I am not a biologist, and if we have any biology hipsters who wish to refute the above notion, I am listening.  But if you are comfortable with that notion in the above paragraph, I will offer a way I have to estimate how many different ways the DNA could combine, in a subsequent post.  The critical point is taken from your video where the hotel guy said the young mother was one of about 40 million distinct people who could have been conceived.  But this is vastly understated, once you take into account the number of different ways the DNA could have combined with the exact ovum and the exact sperm cell which reached the goal.

 

spike

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