ABSTRACT
We carry with us, or rather, in our bodies, our language and culture, our heritage. Our heritage is material. The stuff out of which we are made is dust from stars (see scene 4). We inherit also biological information, useful recipes for making a human, recipes which have emerged in the course of a long history. Nature does not need a recipe to make salt out of sodium and chloride, but to create haemoglobin, the red oxygen-binding chemical in our blood, the body needs a recipe, instructions which are available in our genes,
our DNA. Salt would form without any history; substances such as chlorophyll (in green plants) and haemoglobin are products of a history in which our heritage has been tested and expanded (see scenes 5 and 6). Our bodies, our brains with their potential, our responses: everything is a product of history, materialized as biological recipes. Again and again we have to do with our biological heritage. That is not a burden, but the basis of our existence. Thanks to this biological heritage we may feel, think and act.
