A good but limited analogy. It's important to remember one critical detail: DNA is "executed" in a massively parallel and stochastic fashion. Everything happens

A good but limited analogy. It's important to remember one critical detail: DNA is "executed" in a massively parallel and stochastic fashion. Everything happens at once, all the state is analog, and everything interacts liberally. That being said I think the basic gist of your comment is correct. It's very old spaghetti code... just hyper dimensional massively parallel spaghetti code.