Ep 98: ”Knowledge” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can and Can‘t” Ch 5 Readings and discussion.
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The Genome Is Not an Ordinary Catalyst
Kiara says even if you were to destroy all the crickets in your garden there would be something that survives. The genome that codes for the mole cricket is information because it can be copied during dna replication so what you really should destroy is that piece of information she says. Kiara relates a story where humans are trying to help these aliens who are infected by a bacterial disease and the way they help the aliens is by programming nanobots with the genome essentially the dna of the bacterium in order to have the nanobots attack the bacterium. She tells this story about how well it's a science fiction story that she read as a child.
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