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The mismatch is expectations about what would be known from sequencing DNA doesn't speak to the validity of the analogy but to the poor mental models about the
by yrb 6y ago
The mismatch is expectations about what would be known from sequencing DNA doesn't speak to the validity of the analogy but to the poor mental models about the reality of code, computation and systems we have.
Though I agree that the analogy doesn't really buy you much useful leverage when seeking useful understanding.
- lend000 6y agoIndeed. Turing arguably had a better intuition for how developmental biology works than the status quo of most "experts" I read 80 years later [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...