What If Biology Is Just a Running a Complex System?

Something I can't stop thinking about: inside every one of your cells, right now, hundreds of quintillions of tiny machines are reading DNA and building you out of it — and they're doing it badly, on purpose. They misread about once every ten thousand letters. That's not a flaw they're fighting. It's the fuel. The randomness is the power source.

And last year a research lab taught an AI to read and write that same four-letter code, without ever showing it a biology textbook. It started writing brand-new genes that actually worked when they were built and dropped into a living cell.

The more I sit with both of those, the harder it gets to keep a clean line between "life" and "computation." My new Notes from the Vault episode is me trying to walk that line honestly — with the companion essay on the Substack for anyone who wants the long version.
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I'm Justin Harnish. I write at ordinaryilluminated.com and research at consciousgpt.org. The Emergent AI podcast with Nick Baguley is at https://open.spotify.com/show/1b10z6nRO1saUL1LLnUl2y.

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