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Coevolution of Humans and Machines w/ Edward A. Lee

FUTURES Podcast

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Is DNA Reducible to Data?

DNA molecule has about 2 gigabytes of data in it, which is 1,000 times less than the laptop that I'm using to talk to you now. It's actually not a lot of information. People naively assume that DNA encodes humans. So there's this misconception that since DNA is digital, humans must be ultimately digital.

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