> analog computers all over again Biological coding is quite digital/discrete in its nature, from genes up, that's why it scales and has things like error corr

> analog computers all over again Biological coding is quite digital/discrete in its nature, from genes up, that's why it scales and has things like error correction. You can get all the precision you need if you get EC and statistics right. Now that will be the biggest challenge. (And getting statistics right is essential even for something like a modern CPU that always has at least a few broken transistors in it but still works.) What we see as "individual organisms" at the large scale are analog in their functions, but this is an illusion. The actual units of information or transmissible programs are nothing but digital. Life likes discrete/digital building blocks for complex machines for the same reasons we humans like them in our technology, nothing special here...