Of Men and Machines
While navigating through the interwebs and dodging those paths leading to cute cat videos, I stumbled upon some remarkable lectures by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and biologist Richard Dawkins. Even more remarkable was one involving both of them : In the course of the lecture they discuss about evolution and how almost all life on earth is made up of the same 4 amino acids - A,C,G,T. Also how the vastly more intelligent homosapien shares ~98% of the DNA with the relatively dumb primates. What really caught my attention was the Dawkins comment on how intelligence is not merely because of the extra 2% unique DNA but rather the sequence in which the other other common DNA line themselves up. Blame me for being a geek, but I can't help drawing similarities to how computers are designed and how they have evolved. The binary designation of 0/1 (Ground/rail voltage) are akin to the 4 basic DNA components (a quaternary system). The 98% common sequences are the microinst...