Social Genes Discovered

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315143823.htm

This discovery is reminiscent of John Brunner's science fiction book, "Stand on Zanzibar" where they discover a genetic secret to making anyone more sociable and desirable. The growing implication of research like it is that even the micro-biome of our gut appears critical for determining how social we become and, I believe, what this reflects is the simple fact that existence itself can be considered a social affair and every cell in our body retains some ability to determine who they socialize with and how. The brain itself is slowly being revealed as organized around just how we socialize with everyone and everything in our environment with our immune system playing an integral role. Our cells themselves organize differently according to how many cells they are linked with, known as quorum sensing, and communicate with one another using simple pattern matching that appears to be the basis for how all living things communicate and, recently, nanobots capable of linking and communicating with them have been devised.

It just doesn't get much weirder than machines that can tell you about your right big toe complaining about something and your immune system insisting you stop dating someone, but that's life. A study of women indicated that how dissimilar their immune system smelled from that of a potential mate could influence if they ovulate early. Producing a simple systems logic that can describe how it all works on both the small and grand scale would be a huge leap forward for medicine and society in general.

 

Interesting link.

I wonder how it relates to plain ol' introversion without being on the autism spectrum.

 

From the article:

The genes lead to problems with the synapses that induce seizures which lead to affecting sociablity ....or is it the other way round?

The article itself says the gene interacts with over 600 others.

This is the logical flaw with all gene research, which is by we don't have a cure for anything from genetic research.

It might lead to a drug that will help with a specific type of adult autism ....which won't get anywhere as it will be too costly to produce, to specificfor governments to help with payments .

But in order for it to be a cure, you'd have to tell some parent, while kid is still in the womb that, oh this test says your kid is going to have this type of autism, we want to give you a drug that will change his/ her personal ity in maybe 600 ways, we are kind of sure, but oh yeah, it's actaull mathematically impossible to be able to work out of it is going to work until its too late

 

A lot of the problem appears to be epigenetic suggesting there are possible ways to cure the disease in even an adult. Its related to things like fibromyalgia which is a cellular level disease that can be triggered by stress. An analogy might be that some of their circuit breakers have popped and need to be reset which can sometimes be done merely chemically, sort of like using nitro to restart and old engine left to rot and, at other times, might require a virus or something to deliver the required genetic sequence to a significant percentage of cells. The more interesting aspect is the implication our biology decides to such profound degrees just how social we can become and in what manner.