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If the scientists are incautious, the computer code's genome (instead of the intented original DNA) might be written to the biological cell. The new
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
If the scientists are incautious, the computer code's genome (instead of
the intented original DNA) might be written to the biological cell.
The new cell will start replicating in the biological world, and with it
the representation of the digital computer code.
...where it will quickly die, not having been the product of evolutionary forces.
- randSeed 13y agothats not correct. Firstly, the basis-DNA comes from a bacterium evolved under evolutionary pressure (it is a natural infector of goats). Secondly, the question is not whether it can produce an epidemic, but whether it can at all start overcome the digital-biological barrier. And this is what it can.