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Fascinating. Thanks so much for this! Natural biology really is miraculous (to use a loaded term).
by davesque 5y ago
Fascinating. Thanks so much for this! Natural biology really is miraculous (to use a loaded term).
- WJW 5y agoBiology uses only global variables. All processes can write to all others. We wouldn't do this in software because the human mind can't handle it (leading to bugs), but evolution has no such constraint.
- roflc0ptic 5y agoAs a metaphor that really doesn’t work. Biology is incredibly hype about modularization and separation of concerns. The human body rather goes out of its way to prevent arbitrary changes, both exogenous and endogenous