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Well all info can be encoded as bits (Shannon’s theory of information) and the genome isn’t very far from that encoding. You can divide with bitshifts with computers, it’s possible it could be occurring in biology(this area has been looked over in analysis until recently).

The properties of the genome are similar to the storage memory in a computer in that malicious code is inserted into the path of the biological interpreter. Early during human embryonic development (and only during this time for the human) you have a sudden increase of retrotransposon activity. The DNA itself is like stored polymorphic computer virus with a compiler and code to interface with the environment. It’s very unusual the timing and genes carried around by this circular process are vital for life. That is my basis for the comparison to ASLR. There also exists 2 factor authentication, signature based intrusion detection, intrusion prevention systems.

Here is an interesting paper on an organism that has high rates of this DNA recombination..read the motivation section and you decide if this is computation.

https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0166218X09002534/1-s2.0-S0166218X090...




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