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Published online 31 October 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/450017c
Autonomy lost
UK biotech flagship absorbed.
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When I first viewed the article title, I was almost taken in shock that a regularly percieved and construed battleship, i.e sea(or?) worthy vehicle, whether used for research purposes or whatever, had been physically absorbed into something larger as an invading immunological agent. This very worthy descriptive writing, and I wanted to point out, in relation to my first perception, a potential valid meaning to it, that the world has become grand-excessive large with consolidated definitions in order to "absorb" increasing complexity in ontology and epistemology. As anything, philosophically or other wise, is unique, not really reduceable to a coherent abstract single notion, that the absorbed flagship spoken of (the refered event) is also an active fingerprint of increasing immunological disease, by virtue of our (civilization) habits of expanding, consolidating, organizing, to abstract for ideas and tools-it's precision is exactly imprecise giving rise to incoherent ideas from one perspective, and an undiscriminated alterly named topic at another. We have not identified our problems, that must, from a first inception involve "border crossing" with the same implied meaning of "cellular invader". We can interpret chinese without knowing any of the words and meaning-a serious invasion of privacy and diversity and not advancement. Our scientific tools are conceptual and active replicas of the problem-which also includes the commonly discernable problem of high population with an associated loss of perspective and greater demands for creative insights to it's nature and solution, rather than the extravagant drift with scientific toys and philanthropic gifts on an ,easy to speak and travel, step to step tangent to elsewhere. (maybe, ultimately, to a mass human/world absorbtion to protect the innocent ecology around us-and will not be the action of a biotechnology company). Marvin Kirsh http://www.wbabin.net http://www.marvinekirsh.com http://www.authorsden.com/marvinelikirsh