Comment on The circle of life
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks agoI think the advantage of thinking of DNA as some kind of program code is that we can draw inspiration about what can/can’t be done from IT. And the other way around, nature’s DNA code might give inspiration to computer language development.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
But thinking of DNA as code is pretty different than thinking of it as a language, isn’t it? That’s why I brought up the example of binary code in the first place. And sure, I completely agree that DNA is very much like binary code (just more complex). But code written in a human readable form is again different to that because we need language to understand machine readable code. There needs to be some kind of translation for us. Because language is a form of abstraction that is not present in neither code nor DNA.
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Well, there is people that write assembly language code directly.