DNA-Computer Analogies
Discussions revolve around metaphors comparing DNA to computer programs, code, software, or configurations, with debates on whether DNA functions like a long-running program or binary code shaped by evolution rather than human design.
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How does DNA know about computers?
What does DNA have to do with it?
There is a DNA joke in there somewhere.
Is this got something to do with how DNA molecules were formed?
sure you can, its all just DNA... it just takes waaay longer.
Because our DNA isn't a literal computer program written by humans in the past 50 years.
Incomplete. Its all the DNA business.
Sounds like they refactor the DNA.
The way I see it is DNA is much like a very long running program meant to run for millions to billions of years. Our current life is an instance of some code in the DNA. Due to the longevity of the purpose of DNA, and our short span in an instance, it is very, very difficult to ascertain what some parts may be about, or what it's for. Not to mention the high compressibility of information in DNA, some aspects might never really reveal themselves unless met with an instance in an environment
wasn't there something about how it ruins dna unintentionally?