This is intriguing to hear of the "computing power" of genes - especially the metaphors of the circuit/computer/program like boolean functions, information proc

This is intriguing to hear of the "computing power" of genes - especially the metaphors of the circuit/computer/program like boolean functions, information processing, memory, storage. I read once about how scientific fields like biology and psychology were influenced by the industrial revolution, to view the world and ourselves using metaphors of the machine - e.g., the steam engine - to "let off steam", etc. These days, we are using metaphors of the computer, hard/software, networks, to model/describe/understand the mechanisms operating in nature. It makes me wonder about how there are so many similarities of form and function across layers of the physical world, in the quantum scale, microscopic, human/social levels and beyond. How these bacteria "glom together", form communicating communities, and how they use "quorum sensing" (secrete chemicals to reach a critical level and trigger mass change). It's fascinating to consider how we humans behave very similarly to colonies of (somewhat) intelligent bacteria..