Elvis Presley

Sorry about the random append title.

JAligner - Oh man that is funny!

I never heard of this Smith-Waterman algorithm but a quick google seems that it is trying to compare two parts of a genome and say "Hey look! These two parts look similar!" If the two parts look similar enough they are said to be "aligned". JAligner appears to be some computer implementation written in java of said algorithm.

The genome is just a sequence of chemical bases right? A,C,G,T but lets call them 0,1,2,3. Hey the human genome is a quaternery (as opposed to binary 101001010101011101000101 ..) system!

So if you can find a set of "0123"'s (in any order) that look similar you are aligned pal.

hey these look similar ..


01131323210010203000213203221001312120000212131021301210100312113112123201

and

01131323210010203000213203221001312121000212131021301210100312113112123201

yep! See what JAligner makes of that. Now can you cure my cancer please?

But I can assure you that the maths folks that thought this stuff up don't really like all the obtuse language around their algorithms but they have to use it as it expected of them, and justifies the fact that they are smart and you are not. They have convinced themselves that such rhetoric (and it is rhetoric) is necessary for accuracy. But really everyone is saying "God what a supercilious bunch of hoey where is the local bar - pass me my beer Norm!" for sure.

You questioned:

My thoughts, my hopes, my dreams, my awareness -- are they bounded by the physical?

I suspect so. Why? Taking my own case. I can't recall what my dreams, awareness, thoughts or hopes were on Monday 12th April 1205 at all (and it was a Monday so please don't bother to check!)

In fact, I cannot recall anything before I had a physical brain. So I must infer that there was nothing, I cannot prove it, but that is what the available evidence suggests to me. So yes, I suspect all of those things are bounded by the physical. If the soul exists, and I believe that it does, through no evidence other than what is in a book (The Bible) then I suspect it was created at sometime during my physical existence or created at the start of my physical existence. Once created, my soul is eternal and will spend the majority of it's time in Heaven or Hell. This is what The Bible is telling me I think and I made the choice to believe that.

Is there a "reality" beyond the physical?

I believe that there is, Heaven and Hell for instance. I have no evidence for this but I have chosen to believe it nontheless.

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box (coz I like it)

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey! Wait!
I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel's Hair and baby's breath
Broken Hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

Hey! Wait!
I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice