Pretty much. Which is why it is beyond silly we aren't using DNA more. Its a ternary encoded program. We have trillions of species. Ffs, lets train a generative

Pretty much. Which is why it is beyond silly we aren't using DNA more. Its a ternary encoded program. We have trillions of species. Ffs, lets train a generative model on the distribution of DNAs among all possible life. Then grow it. GANs for generating random organisms anyone? Human 2.0 can probably come about after some of the feature vectors are figured out via PCA on the activations. Just boost feature vector for intelligence. Anyways, yeah! Real matter is already programmable. As programmers its easy to forget that physics says this whole thing is all a monism of information and computation. Code and data. Yin and yang. Even the prime numbers come about as data because of self modifying code. P(0)=2 but all future primes are defined by not being divisible by P(x<n) - think snake eating its own tail and yet growing while doing so. In fact, the most beautiful part about the prime numbers is that they are defined sequentially yet alternative constructions exist which are `atomic`. It is odd that something defined in such a sequential process would form a beautiful structure that can be reduced to direct construction. Relatedly, we see this all the time with recursive functions being turned into procedural ones or functional style data pipleline transformations. The ordering is actually irrelevant to the chaos that the primes display between multiplication and addition. That is, if you defined the first prime as 3 you would yield an entirely different set of primes. For example, 4 would be prime. Beurling figured this out and a lot more through what he called Generalized Primes [1]. [1] https://bookstore.ams.org/surv-213 https://bookstore.ams.org/surv-213