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		mannykannot 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is life a form of computation? Good point - maybe the analogy to computation arises simply because digital computation and the synthesis of DNA, RNA and proteins are all performed by discrete-state machines?

jes5199 4 months ago [–]

does DNA/RNA keep state other than the position of the read head?

mannykannot 4 months ago | [–]

Not as far as I know, but that is not saying much.

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