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If DNA Is Software, Who Wrote The Code?
Recently an article in SF Gate by Deepak Chopra and Pankaj S. Joshi, PhD � �Can There
Be a Science of Consciousness?� � had this amazing quote: �By taking for granted
the obvious fact that it takes a mind to do science, we�ve reached the point where science
is leaving out the very component that might answer the questions that urgently need answering,
not because philosophy demands it but because science does.�
As a longtime admirer of Deepak�s work, I had reached out to him on several occasions
because I felt his most recent book, You Are the Universe, co-authored with Menas Kafatos,
PhD, resonated with my own ideas about the significance of sequencing (or decoding) DNA.
The mystery of DNA to me is as compelling a clue as the existence of the pyramids, precisely
because as someone who discovered computer programming late in life, I recognized in
its structure that it functions literally as an �organic programming language.�
This became apparent to me and affected me deeply after seeing a video by geneticist
Juan Enriquez on TED in which he says flatly an �apple is an application; when the sun
hits it the program executes, and the apple falls from the tree.
In my own book, If DNA is Software, Who Wrote The Code?
� The Profound Significance of Life�s Programming Language, I explain that software
(or computer code) has identical properties to DNA (and may be a stark example of inadvertent
biomimicry).
Extracting meaning from different symbols � in this case A, C, T, and G, which represent
chemicals or proteins � allowed scientists to resurrect extinct species by �copying
and pasting� DNA code