Of course the description of the genome presented here is over-simplification of the process. The genome and the cell are much more complicated than a simple Turing machine. However I have to emphasize two main ideas:
First, saying that the biological machinery is more complex doesn't mean that you cannot evaluate the complexity of an organism from its genome. It's just means that you need to make your model more complex, and include the necessary parameters such as RNA interference, epigenetic, and cellular activity into account.
The technical problem to take one organism DNA and transfer it to another (changing the program), really just say something about our current technology and not... (read 516 more words →)
Of course the description of the genome presented here is over-simplification of the process. The genome and the cell are much more complicated than a simple Turing machine. However I have to emphasize two main ideas:
First, saying that the biological machinery is more complex doesn't mean that you cannot evaluate the complexity of an organism from its genome. It's just means that you need to make your model more complex, and include the necessary parameters such as RNA interference, epigenetic, and cellular activity into account. The technical problem to take one organism DNA and transfer it to another (changing the program), really just say something about our current technology and not... (read 516 more words →)