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Don't underestimate the creative capacity of small (to encode) algorithms. Perhaps development uses something like simulated annealing to create structures whi
by jhallenworld 12y ago
Don't underestimate the creative capacity of small (to encode) algorithms. Perhaps development uses something like simulated annealing to create structures which match required properties. If it works like this, an exact template is not required to be encoded in the genes. In other words, the ultimate source of the design is thermal randomness, but guided by constraints encoded in the genes.
- msandford 12y agoWell we're starting to see Turing vindicated on the way that a lot of biological stuff happens. http://genomebiology.com/2013/14/1/101 http://genomebiology.com/2013/14/1/101 Sure it doesn't have an exact template of _precisely_ how to do everything, but there's a lot of information there. Maybe it's not huge relative to the amount of theoretical information DNA contains, but I strongly suspect that the 98% is junk claim will eventually be found to be laughably wrong.