Cancer is not a genetic disease Even though mutations are often found in tumors, the genetic model of cancer is not sufficient to explain various aspects of cancer biology. Well summarized by @drmichaellevin “Thus, one way to view cancer (from the perspective of basal cognition) is as a pathological rolling back to the smaller cognitive light cones of the deep past. This has already been conformed for transcriptional profiles, as proposed in the atavistic theory of cancer [163-165], and has been extensively discussed in the literature addressing the inadequacies of the mutation theory of cancer [166-170]. But more specifically, the cognitive light cone model suggests that cancer cells are not more selfish, they just have smaller selves. They begin using action loops with much smaller local goals, in effect shrinking the boundary between self and world, and fragmenting in a kind of dissociative identity disorder where the rest of the body (and their neighboring cells) are treated as external environment and outside the set of variables that must be maintained in desired ranges.” osf.io/preprints/osf/yq9xe