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Old Henk:

--- Quote ---Part 9: Control from DNA

As a rule we are not going to encourage and even allow control of enzymatic functions from DNA.  After all, if I could willfully tell my enzymes to create muscle from beer that I drink, I'd be one tough guy :)
--- End quote ---
Would a bot (in the proposed system) have the ability to know it's own
* Chemicals (amounts of)
* Enzymesthrough DNA commands?

Numsgil:
I'm thinking not.  Better to have the DNA only vaguely aware of what's going on under the hood, and build a seperate control mechanism for what's under the hood.

More likely the bot could determine how slimey, shell-y, etc. it is instead of the amounts of each substance, etc.

shvarz:
I agree.  It should be possible for a bot to tell its general energy state, but not exact amounts of chemicals.

Numsgil:
Technical note:

Suposse substances are 3 bits (for clarity, but it applies to all numbers of bits).

000 and 001 can't react.  Why?  Because they can only form each other.

000 + 001 = either 001 + 000 or 000 + 001

which are identical as far as the bots are concerned.

Which means either we accept that there'll be a large number of reactions that can't happen, we set up reactions to involve more than two reactants (so 000 + 001 + 011 can react, say), or we allow more than one group to be transfered at once.

Unless you mean that all reactions are mono-substrate...  (that is, just one single substance is converted into one other substance).

shvarz:
Yes, yes, yes!!! They are all monosubstrate.  They are all either gaining or losing 1 in one of the positions.

000 can turn into 001, 010 or 100  No need for second substrate.

The whole 0 and 1 concept is there just to facilitate the understaning of an N-dimentional cube with all the possible lines connecting 256 vortices of this cube.  The numbers themselves don't represent anything specific.

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