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It's two billion lines of spaghetti code created by iterative randomness and implementing its own compiler (and, as a side gig, perl) Parts of the code have ev
by IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
It's two billion lines of spaghetti code created by iterative randomness and implementing its own compiler (and, as a side gig, perl)
Parts of the code have evolved to code for two entirely different functional segments depending on the direction they are read in, while others have randomly duplicated and taken on entirely new functions over time. Energy has become the specialisation of a type of bacteria that at some point somehow avoided death after being eaten by a cell and instead founded its family of somewhat strange but super-efficient metabolisers.
So yeah, it's complex.
- missosoup 6y agoIt's complex and beautiful. "We are all just a somewhat interesting random arrangement of photons"
- kazagistar 6y agoIts a nice sentiment but inaccurate. If you wanted a fundamental particle that we are mostly made of, gluons would be a better boson to pick, since they make up the majority of the mass/energy of subatomic particles in matter. Why would you say photons?
- doliveira 6y agoOur biological processes are caused by the electromagnetic force, which is mediated by photons.
- dwaltrip 6y agoAre you saying this because chemical bonds are largely due to electromagnetic force? That is true as far as I am aware. Although it does seem like a peculiar way to say it: "Our biological processes are mediated by photons". But maybe that is just me. Regardless, it still is incorrect to say we are simply an arrangement of photons. The matter making up our body is composed of atoms, which are composed of electrons, quarks, and gluons (fundamental particles in the standard model).
- nvader 6y agoBut those photons wouldn't have source or destinations if it wasn't for the hadrons and fermions. Maybe we're both luminous beings and this crude matter.