D J B
D J B
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Your work is very exciting and very promising. I m sure you will continue to meet with a good deal of success, although again, it will probably not reveal how everything human actually occurs.

Life is so complex. You will be able to see which genes respond to what drug under certain conditions. Of course, not all conditions. What makes a gene in a specific person express itself in this manner at this time? Was it due to a virus or toxin? a psychological stress? a random exposure to radon? Too much fat in their diet?

I understand the efficiency of taking a pragmatic, results-based approach instead of trying to discover the origins. But to really disrupt the disease process it certainly helps to know the etiology.

But still, a human’s biological state is the result of the constant interaction of an almost limitless number of factors, and they all continue to change. Can the power of five to five hundred Watsons sort it out? (Sorting out a person’s mental state is even more complex).

I wish for you many skilled programmers, many insightful physicians, lots of computing power and lots of luck.

    D J B

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    I have been mumbling almost incoherently in response to life's problems for a long, long time. Contact me at djbermont@gmail.com

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