[FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley

[Prof David West]

The structure is just the "machinery" that executes the code.

The original work was encoding data on synthetic DNA and the result was a structure that was the data that was the structure. The new work is altering an existing structure - binary data converted to 4 bases - again with a result that data is structure is data.

[or so I am led to believe by what I have been reading]

davew

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 10:50 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Well, hang on, Dave.
> 
> DNA is not just code; it is structure as well. 
> 
> N
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> Nick Thompson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 4:43 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
> 
> The idea of posthuman came up (yes it was me) in another thread. This
> article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4 opens an
> interesting door: "reprogramming" DNA by inserting new data into living DNA.
> After all a program is just another form of data. This might be orthogonal
> to genetic (re)engineering.
> 
> davew
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