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PurpleYouko:
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--- Quote --- Yeah that is a big number, but can't we rule out some commands as impossible? Rule out others as duplicates?
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Would this help reduce it a bit?
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Oh I see what you mean.
I think the way I see it is that duplicates would be possible but not pre-determined. I think that could be left to chance mutation.
Also variations in a specific "bit pattern" DNA strand (called a Word hereafter for simplicity) would be mitigated or compounded by the strands before and after it such that a specif pattern would actually have different effects in different parts of the DNA.
I kind of visualize a system where some Words would be like switches that activate the Word immediately following it. Others would be more like actions but the actual action would be fully contained in the word itself or in a specified register. Others again would close a conditional loop. Nested loops would be possible so behaviours could get really complex.
A little like DB still but with a lot more variability in what can happen. Also a whole lot less readable DNA code.
PurpleYouko:
--- Quote ---PY I dont know what you are thinking, but take some time off, write a doc about what you have in mind, just skecth it roughly, we always get back to details latter. I would love to know (and help) what it is, but well I am not a mind reader!
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I will at some point.
The way I work though is to think out loud a lot and gradually let things congeal into a real plan. I don't quite feel that I'm there yet.
Talking here is helping.
Greven:
--- Quote ---Also a whole lot less readable DNA code.
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Forget about that! When we have an DNA interprenter, we can have the reverse, a DNA parser, whatever we will called doesnt matter. What matters is the outcome of this. You ideas sound better and better. I have to go to work now, but I will think of it to see if I can come up with something to.
Ulciscor:
So basically you can't have the kind of DNA you are suggesting, even though it would give the most accurate representation of DNA in a sim?
But wait! I've just remembered something from a biology book I read...
DNA has an in-built redundancy to protect from catastrophic errors from mutations. Many different sequences of DNA code the same protein! Now that would definitely reduce all those possibilities. We could arbitrarily group variations together so that they code for the same environmental action.
How would that be?
Greven:
It simple.
A codon (3 base pairs (each with 4 possible states)) give 64, there are only 20 aminoacides, the redundancy lies in the fact that many codon come for the same aminoacid.
EDIT: not come from, but code for the same aminoacid!
AH I hate when I type something wrong! :puke:
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