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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Gerry and Steve,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since I can read messages from the list but not
send ( they are automatically rejected)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I send the attached papers directly to you. Feel
free to send them to the rest of the group.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Based on my observations on bacterial colonies I
published a new picture of the creative genome in which I explained that based
on rational arguments it has to be able to perform information processing, learn
from experiments and even change itself accordingly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>During last two years there are new direct
experimental evidences that support the picture. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The community is willing to accept these ideas to
the extend that I was invited to give a lecture at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a Nobel symposium meeting.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in short, yes the genome does think. But only if in
the genome you include not only the sequence but the entire gestalt (enzymes
proteins etc).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the best, Eshel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eshel Ben-Jacob <BR>Professor of Physics
<BR>The Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems<BR>President of the
Israel Physical Society
(IPS)
<BR>School of Physics and Astronomy<BR>Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv,
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