[everymansmedium]

Hello Greg:
I figure people will pick up on what item they feel that they have information to add to.

I Listed that thought first as I also think this holds the greatest possibilities of learning something.
I have little knowledge that I can add relative to the biological and chemical processes.
I do however have quite a good grip on data packets. I have worked with computers sense the very beginning in the mid 60’s. When the memory systems are 4 bits to a single board. Memory conservation is an art that is all but forgotten now. I still own a C compiler that can produce an executable of 8k or less.
I have also worked with everything from machine language, basic, C, up to and including Prolog.

About the complexity of regeneration, It is typically many times more complex than the device that that is reproduced. We consider a copy command within a system like DOS. This is to make a binary copy of a binary file. This is the simplest possible copy. It consists of identify string as per instructions in the operating system. These instructions have rules for string identification and character identification. Then when the string is identified it must identify all the characters contained within the string, Then it must count all the characters, Then it must copy and write all the characters. If I did not write this in an extremely simplified manner I would have run out of space and bored everyone completely with the process of copying a simple binary file. The reason for this is with every copy you must have with the copy a copy of the environment rules to make the copy recognizable to the environment that you copy within.

You might also consider a look at the manufacturing system that is beginning to take shape before our very eyes. If you go into the factories that are building computer boards. They are mostly built by automation systems that are automated assembly lines made up of complex machines that place and solder the components onto these micro processor boards. They also test and grade these boards. If you look closely you will see that the automation equipment is being controlled by the same processor boards that they manufacture. This process is also true of the components that are being placed on these boards. They also are being manufactured by an automation process that is also controlled by these very same boards. This is beginning to look a bit like a reproduction process. However once again you see the complexity is increased by many fold compared to the single processor board, That is the end product

I am sure this is where the knowledge of genetics comes in, as I assume that the genetic system has ways of simplifying this process. It must for with the methods available to computer languages, life happening at random would be very improbable. So I look at this question in this way, If the genetic process has a way of simplifying this process, then it would be worth finding a way to simulate this process so as to improve our abilities with our computer languages.
If however this in not the case then we have to consider the random beginning of life as improbable and proceed to seek the intelligent source.

In either case the idea of the genetic code as a language also indicates another paradox as it would be the only data language that is created at random. So I guess we have a 2 fold problem.

How simple can the process of regeneration be made?
Is the genetic code truly a language? It does take recorded data and transfer that information in a way that results with a specific life form. (Specific data = species)?
It appears to me, to be a language.
John.