Hi Brent, You seem to assume that the read and copy operations are of something immutable. I submit that there is no 3p invariant at all! There is only the potential infinity of 'similar' copies.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Stephen Paul King <[email protected] > wrote: > 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.
