[FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

[jon zingale]

Nick,

I could probably express my thoughts in *steam governor* talk, but since
this week KenP has me thinking about RNA, I will try this other tack.
Extensionally, ribosomes can be identified as functions taking RNA and
returning useful proteins for an organism. Due to the constrained nature
of the *mechanism*, only certain sequences of RNA bases correspond to
proteins. Let us think of this correspondence as giving a semantics of
sequences to proteins. Now, a virus can come along and hijack the protein
production by sending RNA messages of its own, i.e., by operating within
the constraints of the semantics and producing viable RNA sequences.

As another example, consider giving an order at a restaurant. When you
perform this task, the waiter must decode the utterance into experiences
they can reason about before they can carry out the order. More than
just a transformation of pressure waves into the action of bringing you
food, designations of meaning are non-arbitrarily selected from the
context.



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