That has nothing to do with science of epigentics. What your stating is a philosophical question: does DNA determine fate, that a hard question to ask, because fate its self is questionable. How? What your describing is not a inheritable mechanism, just because we a genetically program with a degree of adaptability has nothing to do with epigenetics. Again has nothing to do with epigenetics.
I was not focusing on one gene but on the spatial integration of many genes. If we start with a stem cell and induce it to become a novel variation somewhere between two normal cell types, we can create long-term alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell that are not necessarily heritable. This is based on a cause and effect than may not occur normally. Why not alter stems cells in situ using internal potentials to get variations in body features that may not be inheritable, unless we recreate the same induced cause and effect. I am less focused on post transcriptional modification of one gene, where the cell body improves the DNA output, in response to external potentials, creating new internal potentials leading to a new equilibrium. If you took the DNA and randomly cut it in half would it combined with another random half allow a viable life form? Or does there need to be a certain level of coordination in the two halves to make sure we got all the parts? There needs to be cause and effect to choose wisely all the time with only minor gene errors and not 3-D errors.
