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I have come to view them (from a programer's sense) kinda like functions and stateless services compared to living life which is like classes and other state-y
by AgloeDreams 7y ago
I have come to view them (from a programer's sense) kinda like functions and stateless services compared to living life which is like classes and other state-y things. It can change classes, it can be mutated and overridden, but does not think or act on its self, it must be interacted with.
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoInteresting. I also have a programmers model. But in my head the virus is the static artifact, the code. While what’s living is the process interpreting that code. Or rather SARS-CoV-2 is the nonliving static code. COVID-19 is the “living” process interpreting the code. Or your DNA is the code, you’re the living process interpreting that code.
- wizzwizz4 7y agoMy take: DNA (in a suitable environment) is a self-hosted DNA interpreter executing code to regulate its own environment via RNA JIT bytecode compilation. Viruses are… well, viruses. The CPU, in this analogy, is physics.