Remember the topic of using DNA as data memory that burst into the limelight a few years ago? ■ Isn't DNA itself a memory of something? Computer data is a code written in binary numbers of 0 and 1, but the code is divided into two poles such as positive and negative electric charges, positive and negative poles of magnetic substances, current conduction and insulation of semiconductors. It is written and stored by using the properties of the things that exist. Converting the code into a chain of four chemical substances, adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T), which make up DNA, and storing it in DNA has become a hot topic. It is said that it is "memory of DNA", but apart from the cost, it is said that it has already been realized to the practical level. [Click here for other images → http://tocana.jp/2017/06/post_13378.html] Here, a question arises. If DNA is suitable for storing written code, isn't DNA itself acting as some kind of memory? That's what it means. The online journal "Collective Evolution" has a report by Mr. Tom Bunzel, who proposes a theory in line with this question. Bunzel argues that DNA is an "organic programming language." Of course, computer programming languages were developed hundreds of millions of years later than DNA, but they are very similar in structure. For example, consider the fruit apple. You can think of an apple as an app. In other words, the code written in the apple's DNA is the program, the executable file that launches the app when the sun hits it, runs it, and produces an apple. Also, with the current DNA engineering technology, it is possible to copy and paste a code composed of A, G, C, and T from one DNA and paste it into another DNA, which is still at the experimental level. have even succeeded in reviving extinct species. ■ Was the DNA code written with intention? If the code written in DNA can be understood in the same way as the computer programs created by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc., the question arises as to who wrote it. come. According to Bunzel, DNA is neither the product of evolutionary coincidence, nor the random arrangement of chemical codes, but rather the power of will. He refers to this power as the "mind", "an undeniable reality of the existence of a will or mind that is far more powerful than the mind I have". In the same way that programmers and coders invested their brains, skills, and time to develop software to write the Windows operating system or configure the Photoshop program, if the power of the "mind" did not work, DNA would be called DNA. Software is not written by chance. Could this be the existence of God? Or is it due to highly developed extraterrestrial life forms and other dimension life forms? Or is it possible that the energy that life originally possesses corresponds to such an existence? The essence of the "mind" in Mr. Bunzel's theory is not pinpointed and unraveled, but it may be a hint to think about DNA from a different point of view. (Text = Takanatsu Godo) * Image quoted from "Wikimedia Commons"
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