Cracking Nature's Code

J.B. Head is an independent scientist with a background in microbiology and industry. In this relatively technical work based on 40 pages of references, she outlines an approach to taking our next evolutionary step through understanding nature's laws and operating system by implementing new technology based on biomimicry. In connection with the rollout of 5G, she quotes Buckminster Fuller as saying that 'human beings always do the most intelligent thing… after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.' She advances the concept of 'an orchestrating organism within a self-organising nonlinear physical process', commenting that the reductionist framework is not fit for purpose in relation to highly complex systems. The criterion for success is environmental adaptation rather than manipulation and survival of the fittest. Her central concept was new to me – the protein actin as the universal architect of life as information, although I myself would hesitate to describe this as the 'root cause of universal consciousness', which I think comes from another level. Actin operates through a dynamic feedback loops, which the author sees as the 'the foundation for universal communication, cooperative, physiological, dynamic adaptive evolution according to the electromagnetic laws of attraction and resistance that is natural selection.' This is certainly an idea worth pursuing, also in relation to its possible role as a substrate to microtubules in the theories of Penrose and Hameroff. Most readers will agree that we urgently require an evolutionary course correction, and this book provides a promising scientific angle that also encourages the engagement of people power, without which the current system is likely to stay in place, even if it in a slightly modified form.