An analogy there would be punch cards. The machinery is the ribosome. -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 10:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
The structure is just the "machinery" that executes the code. The original work was encoding data on synthetic DNA and the result was a structure that was the data that was the structure. The new work is altering an existing structure - binary data converted to 4 bases - again with a result that data is structure is data. [or so I am led to believe by what I have been reading] davew On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 10:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Well, hang on, Dave. > > DNA is not just code; it is structure as well. > > N > > Nick Thompson > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 4:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley > > The idea of posthuman came up (yes it was me) in another thread. This > article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4 opens an > interesting door: "reprogramming" DNA by inserting new data into living DNA. > After all a program is just another form of data. This might be > orthogonal to genetic (re)engineering. > > davew > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn > GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn > GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
