From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 23:01:18 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 05:19 am, Emlyn O'regan
> wrote:
>
> > It's more than just a blueprint. It's machine
> readable & executable,
> > and I
> > think it is self modifiable.
>
> Maybe I am nit-picking, but I would call this data.
> Each sequence on
> the DNA means something to the RNA that reads it.
> It does not execute
> each sequence. A sequence is not a command. Moving
I think I would have to agree.
> Although arguing analogies is always iffy, I still
> think it makes more
> sense to call the body hardware, DNA firmware for
I think your originial idea blueprint for DNA was
better. I can't believe you **publish** that before
I did... hee... hee..
> defining the hardware,
> the brain is a storage device, and memories/learned
> behavior is the
> software. If you wanted to save my function, you
I would buy that but there is still no executable,
unless you argue that human beings like computers
are executing by living based on programs
in the brain dynamically built from on
inputs from the sensual organs.
> should scan my brain,
This makes me really sad cuz I know that the act
of scanning my brain means that I am mortal but
all the information that comprises me is not.
A digital you will never be you...
YP
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