[FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
Marcus Daniels
marcus at snoutfarm.com
Sat Jan 23 14:37:58 EST 2021
An analogy there would be punch cards. The machinery is the ribosome.
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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
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
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> Subject: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
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> 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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