Yep -- there was a thread a while about whether a biologist could reverse-engineer a radio, and I made the comment that electronics are designed to keep the var

Yep -- there was a thread a while about whether a biologist could reverse-engineer a radio, and I made the comment that electronics are designed to keep the various functions nicely decoupled, while biological systems aren't/don't, because they optimize for something else, leading them to bleed state across the entire system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048972 (Also links to previous discussions on this theme.)