Apologies for going off tangent but, as someone who majored in biochemistry/molecular biology (now almost 8 years in the past, which was pres CRISPR but has bee

Apologies for going off tangent but, as someone who majored in biochemistry/molecular biology (now almost 8 years in the past, which was pres CRISPR but has been reinforced by continual education in medicine) This is such a beautiful inadequacy of our knowledge. My intro to science and molecular science was first massively sparked by an E. coli article I randomly jumped to in the early stages of Wikipedia. It talked about error correcting proteins, and versions of this and that, and I thought holy shit the cell is a computer. As I came to understand more of molecular biology I was fortunate to find it very easy to visualise and understand not just the idea that the theories and molecular pathways we understand are an amazing set of dominos that have to fall in a particular order but also the stochastic relationship of them all - on, off, according to molecular affinities, and those are just the pathways we have been able to understand by way of intelligent experiments and human ingenuity. To jump radically back on topic - There have to be and are so many more layers to how the code that builds life executes that we don’t understand that it is pure arrogance to assume that we understand the system enough to perfectly execute any modifications to it. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong to look down the rabbit hole, after all, that’s all we’ve ever done