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Interesting. 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 co
by CuriousSkeptic 7y ago
Interesting. 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.