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Regarding how the only the cell understands how to read DNA.. I understand there are 3 basic biology laws: 1) evolution, 2) everything uses the same way of coding genetic information (the tree of life 16S-RNA/DNA), and genetic instruction can be transferred between organisms 3) all life is composed of cell(s). How does the cell know what to do with DNA? What are Siddhartha's thoughts on panpsychism, consciousness, and "Junk DNA"? For example, I find it remarkable that using only 4 letters, human DNA only has 3 billion base pairs, and much of it looks like messy assembly-code.. some parts seem to do nothing, other parts are copy-paste from something else, etc. And all of this code will make for about 500 naturally occurring amino-acids. Even more astounding is that all life forms as we know it, from a fish to a banana, only draws upon ~20 of these amino acids to make proteins! So the basic building blocks that generates all the wild diversity of life we see on earth seems minuscule! BTW, Sadhguru talks about a place (Kailash Manasarovar Lake) where there is life but not as we know it. Even ghosts/spirituality has a signature of what we know as life, but what comes in and out of that place is something entirely different!