The midichlorians or mito-chlorians can not be the mitochondria or the equivalent because mitochondria are only passed maternally. So Luke and Leia's mitochondria would have come from Padme not Anakin.
What bothers me the most about is if the Force=midichlorians and you can detect them in tissue it opens up all kinds of questions. Can you transfer them like blood? And you grow them and make more? Are they alive? And if they are so integral to feeling the force then why isn't it more central to the plot. Wouldn't the Sith be all about stealing other people's midichlorians or making their own to become more powerful.
The Force just didn't need an explanation. And if you give it a scientific one well then give a role in the story instead of a throwaway line.
Actually I liked Card more for "Speaker for the Dead" than "Ender's game". "Speaker for the Dead" raised intriguing questions of interpersonal relationships (human-human, human-AI, and human-alien) and was arguably one of the more realistic depictions of what the first interactions with an alien race might be like.
Ender's game did appeal to me in the way that you said. But the book was also well written. Furthermore, it did have insight into the way we demonize our enemies and the cost that war has on personal morality.
I agree that his career after that has been one steady slide into mediocrity and thinly veiled religious peddling of religious doctrine.
There is evidence that the expression of speech, involving the coordination of the precise oral/facial movements, has a genetic component. A mutation in the gene foxp2 was found to be associated with a defect in producing human speech while retaining the ability to comprehend it.
A trait may hitchhike on the selection for a different trait if the same genes function in both traits. For example (also summarized by Carl Zimmer, a really good science blog!) the absence of eyes in blind cavefish appears to be the result of the selection for increased dosage of a gene that increases the ability to taste (more useful in the dark) but negatively affects development of eyes.
Relax let the stereoscopic image flow through you..
Master I just can't see it.
Relax your eyes you must..
Master it's impossible.
Know you already what is possible and what is not?
But I'm trying, I just can't see this teapot or whatever.
hmph do or do not, there is no try.....grumble...grumble
I sense much anger in you..
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The midichlorians or mito-chlorians can not be the mitochondria or the equivalent because mitochondria are only passed maternally. So Luke and Leia's mitochondria would have come from Padme not Anakin. What bothers me the most about is if the Force=midichlorians and you can detect them in tissue it opens up all kinds of questions. Can you transfer them like blood? And you grow them and make more? Are they alive? And if they are so integral to feeling the force then why isn't it more central to the plot. Wouldn't the Sith be all about stealing other people's midichlorians or making their own to become more powerful. The Force just didn't need an explanation. And if you give it a scientific one well then give a role in the story instead of a throwaway line.
Actually I liked Card more for "Speaker for the Dead" than "Ender's game". "Speaker for the Dead" raised intriguing questions of interpersonal relationships (human-human, human-AI, and human-alien) and was arguably one of the more realistic depictions of what the first interactions with an alien race might be like.
Ender's game did appeal to me in the way that you said. But the book was also well written. Furthermore, it did have insight into the way we demonize our enemies and the cost that war has on personal morality.
I agree that his career after that has been one steady slide into mediocrity and thinly veiled religious peddling of religious doctrine.
There is evidence that the expression of speech, involving the coordination of the precise oral/facial movements, has a genetic component. A mutation in the gene foxp2 was found to be associated with a defect in producing human speech while retaining the ability to comprehend it.
A trait may hitchhike on the selection for a different trait if the same genes function in both traits. For example (also summarized by Carl Zimmer, a really good science blog!) the absence of eyes in blind cavefish appears to be the result of the selection for increased dosage of a gene that increases the ability to taste (more useful in the dark) but negatively affects development of eyes.
And wouldn't it suck when you realize, after taking the pill, that it was stupid to take the pill in the first place?
Relax let the stereoscopic image flow through you.. Master I just can't see it. Relax your eyes you must.. Master it's impossible. Know you already what is possible and what is not? But I'm trying, I just can't see this teapot or whatever. hmph do or do not, there is no try.. ...grumble...grumble
I sense much anger in you..