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So, even if you literally live forever, you'll definitely have amnesia. Wait, chromosomes are data storage devices too. So life as we know it cannot continue t
by Florin_Andrei 12y ago
So, even if you literally live forever, you'll definitely have amnesia.
Wait, chromosomes are data storage devices too. So life as we know it cannot continue to function forever. Some sort of massive reboot-on-the-fly would be required periodically.
- doctoboggan 12y agoI don't think this is actually correct. Like so many elegant engineering solutions, nature has taken a tough problem and turned it into a feature. Evolution actually _depends_ on the degradation of information to work. If DNA replication was perfect there would be no mutations and thus no adaptation to change. So sure, life as we know it today will not continue to function forever - it will be even better in the future!
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- erroneousfunk 12y agoDo you remember any events from when you were born? What did you have for lunch on this date 10 years ago? What did you have for lunch today? We already have amnesia, via data compression :)
- partomniscient 12y agoI think this was loosely the basis for an episode of House. Do you want analog or digital? Do you want lossy compression and reduced overheads or lossless compression and a perfect albeit perhaps slower memory? Or as Alan Watts might put it: Prickles or Goo?