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Re:The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees by Aperocky on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:37PM (#24415360)
Still the same. We regularly compress stuff before sending it out and make programs work in multiple different environments, it could choose to install part of it on this machine and then another part because of some env variables, work almost the same way.

But human is one SINGLE program, running in distributed fashion in about 30 TRILLION cell, that make us operate functionally as one single entity. That is what's impressive. What's more organization of those cell is also handled by the program.

Of course, the debugging process has not been a nice one.

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Re:The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees by dnautics on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:03PM (#24426449)
That's not true. Your immune system actively randomizes its dna and reprograms itself stocastically, followed by a system of natural selection to pick winners. There is generally speaking not reproducibility, it will not "work almost the same way" between two organisms, given identical input DNA from birth.
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