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This is why the body is so hard to understand because all these viruses like have multiple feedback loops with each other or with groups.

• asdff 6y ago
  Biology is enormously complicated. Imagine coming to a code base written in an entirely undocumented language, with 1.5 gigabytes of this incomprehensible source code (for human genome), and figuring out how this script works with the millions of other scripts of varying length in your gut or in the environment, given you have a very small working knowledge of the overall machine that runs this code and can't easily take it apart and try and figure out what is happening (short of experiments where you essentially try unplugging a single thing at a time and see what happens to the machine [mutant screen]).
  • m3kw9 6y ago
    Yes and add that all in spaghetti code
  • jakobnissen 6y ago
    Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but there is a crucial way in which the "DNA as source code" analogy breaks down: Even with an unknown language, you still knows basically how the computer itself works. A better analogy is an unknown, minimized language, running on unknown hardware, whose chips run unknown and self-modifying microcode such that the same source code may not even produce the same results.