Hi Brent, I agree 99.999999% with you here! I only differ in saying that the "copy" process is not exact and thus is equivalent to a "write".
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:53 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/2/2013 4:39 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > " think it's more feasible to try to reverse-engineer the > morphogenetic algorithms encoded in the DNA. We would still not > understand the creation, but would have a greater chance of success, > and we would understand how to create the conditions for our creation > to grow. Fully understanding a developed human brain would require > understanding an absurdly huge graph of interactions that extends in > space across the planet and in time all the way back to the first > organisms." > > Has any thought been given that the DNA code is something like the code > of a von Neumann replicator uses. The base of 4 may indicate a form of > error correction built into the language as the 'machine code' level... I > think that treating the DNA directly as a Turing machine tape might be > missing a few connecting steps. > > > I don't think it's at all like a Turing machine tape. It isn't written > to, only read and copied. The whole organism might be compared to a Turing > machine in that it "grows" by producing more structure and by learning. > But even that doesn't account for the environment and culture that provides > a lot of the information that is learned and processed. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/K7E-Vfwj4QU/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
