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by hyperpallium 3069 days ago
There's also abstractions in nature, a non-spaghetti form of code-reuse - a natural outcome in code, when the same thing is reused several times. e.g. cells form the "atoms" of a body. They are very similar, but specialized. Many internal mechanisms are the same. Metabolism. DNA itself and transcription is reused. It's not much, but we may find other abstractions, currently hidden, if they have been reused many times.
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there are also MASSIVE spans within the human genome that are copies and copies and copies and copies.
Yes, both are true.