Methylation-Assisted Epigenetic Evolution and the Psycho-biology of Human Experiences

COVID-19 as a Dispersed Organism: Host Manipulation and Psychosocial Impacts

“…But having an identity and selfhood as an individual human being one can strive for one's own evolution by conscious aspiration [28][29] . It seems that morphological evolution having reached its completeness in the homo sapiens they have to mold themselves in dimensions that are beyond the physical 12,[30][31] .…”

“…AIDS made humans learn the value of having more a rational and restrained approach to physical intimacy, while COVID is forcing us to have restraints over emotional expressions in addition 1 . Is there not a teleological reason of gradual movement from passion to emotion and then on to reason lurking behind these epidemics to lead the human beings to higher levels of realization through the dimension of rational restraint of instincts and conscious effort to go beyond them [28][29][30][31] ? It is difficult to comprehend and predict the genetic mutations through stress-induced epigenetic modifications that COVID-19 would bring in us if it remains in force for around two years as did Spanish flu.…”

“…It is difficult to comprehend and predict the genetic mutations through stress-induced epigenetic modifications that COVID-19 would bring in us if it remains in force for around two years as did Spanish flu. We can only hope that it does not coevolve to become resistant to vaccination and does not come back again with higher virulence factors in, say, another hundred years or so which seems to be the period of such pandemics [29][30][31] .…”

“…By the end of its current phase of activity, the virus itself will no doubt accumulate too many mutations which will presumably make it ineffective soon, but will nevertheless enhance its virulence factors in the long run, may be after another hundred years when it makes the next appearance with all necessary preparations. The question is whether the human host will remain unaffected psychologically, sociologically, epigenetically and genetically by passing through this two years' intense all round stress of the pandemic [28][29][30][31] .…”

The Interplay of Order and Disorder in the Dynamical Evolution of Physical and Biological Systems

“…The information about the entire physical universe encoded in its myriad objects (~1 [16,45]. This genetic entropy is much larger than the entropy of the same information encoded in the individual psyche with still less number of DoF, psychic experiential states which can be counted to be at best within, may be, only a few tens of qualia, as we move to the next level of coarse-graining in terms of them (qualia) (such as color and sound etc).…”