A review of Dr Michael Clarage's "The Electrical Design of Biology"
In the world of reduction biology, it has become a common assumption that all weighable properties of living matter (including morphology, cell development and the purpose of both cells and individual members of the species) are determined entirely by DNA. If this were true, we would have to assume that all the information contained in the developmental process of each cell was determined before birth, so there is little room for freedom in the universe.
Now a problem emerges. If we take into account the incredible interconnectedness and communication that must exist between the cells of an organism during its development, how do the under-defined stem cells of an embryo know when to become heart cells and not brain cells or stomach cells? And how does this exchange of cells within an organ and between organs in a body continue throughout the organism's life?
In this incredible two-part video series, Dr Michael Clarage (lead scientist of the Safire Project) not only addresses the problems caused by the assumption that DNA is a fundamental driving force of life, form and function, but also highlights specific case studies in nature where such theories break down completely - in living organisms as well as in crystallography and snowflake formation.
Among the case studies from the biological realm, Dr Clarage examines the work of Michael Levin's lab at Tufts University in Boston, which conducted experiments that altered the electrical properties of cell biology in embryos. Without altering the underlying DNA of different species, the Levin lab rigorously demonstrated that altering electrical polarisations within cells can fundamentally distort the development of living organisms, to the point of creating entirely new species that are even capable of self-replication.
Dr. Clarage challenges the viewer to consider what other forces and principles are at play in the creation of new species and individual organisms that have more to do with electromagnetic properties than DNA alone.
If the electrical properties of life are far more important (though perhaps not specifically causal) than commonly thought, then the question arises: what higher astrophysical causes shape this process? How is it influenced by the Earth's oscillating electric/magnetic fields? How are these oscillating fields influenced by the larger environment of solar system electromagnetic fields? How are these in turn influenced by the wider electromagnetic properties of the galaxy or supercluster of galaxies, of which the Milky Way is only a part?