The Blueprint for Life and for Healing
"What is healing, what is the nature of it, and where does it come from?" In NMT our position is that the processing of information is what informs the development and repair of living things. Life begins with the combination of 23 pairs of chromosomes from each parent resulting in the genome of an embryonic new life consisting of 46 chromosomes occupying the nucleus of a single cell. According to the theory of formative causation as described by Rupert Sheldrake (see recommended and provided readings in this manual), ”morphogenic” energetic fields model the morphology and behavior of the material representation of our bodies. The unfolding of all material structure, all rules of the physiology of growth, repair, disease, degeneration, and aging in living things is determined by the properties of these fields.
The genome of each individual comprises a database utilizing a system of four base pairs ordered along two ribbons of chained deoxyribose sugar and phosphoric acid molecules. Each cell is built around a cytoskeleton of microtubules embedded with proteins that are capable of changing their conformation in response to changes in conditions the cell is exposed to. The sum total of such intracellular activity and status comprises an internal information state that regulates cell processes. This system of nuclear DNA and cytoskeleton is a cellular recording system that behaves like a biological computer, just as the arrangement of zeros and ones on the hard drive, processors, and memory chips of a computer records an information state for that system. The combination of this chemical “hardware” and the energetic “software” of the morphogenic fields comprise the elements of the information storage system from which human life develops and proceeds.
The genome of each individual should be considered analogous to the sort of file you sometimes download from a software manufacturer's website in order to update a program on your computer. The file usually comes in the form of a self-extracting zip file, which once activated unfolds from a compressed kernel into the fully articulated and functional program that you run on your computer. Similarly, that single germinal cell from which the human being develops is a self-extracting information file that expands itself into physical reality. Not by assembling ever-larger patterns of ones and zeros, but by assembling molecular components from the environment in which it exists. By doing so, the single cell reproduces itself and it then diversifies and specializes its copies until each structure of the mature human is produced. DNA has been shown to be capable of determining specific protein structure in the body, but it has never been shown to carry determinants of overall form and function. Theories of formative causation provide plausible explanations for such whole system architecture. The molecular model of control represented by DNA and the energetic model of morphogenic fields are related to one another in the way that the materials that make up a house and the blueprint of its design together account for all properties of the finished structure. The physical body, as it develops and matures, operates according to data processing rules implicit in these genetic chemicals and morphogenic fields. The nervous system is the primary agent by which the life of the cell is integrated into the life of the organism as a whole.
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