DNA/RNA looks to be more like storing heuristics, landmarks and clues, not data.

snitty · on July 10, 2023

Can you elaborate on that? A significant portion of DNA in organisms literally encodes for protein sequences. It also has functional parts (binding sites for proteins, promoter sequences). Some RNAs are not translated because the RNA itself has function, but I don't see that same argument for DNA.

asdff · on July 10, 2023

Only like 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding.

snitty · on July 11, 2023

And like 90% of E. coli genome is protein coding. I intentionally wasn't limiting it to humans because humans make up a very small portion of total DNA in the world.