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We Can Recode Him. We Have the Software

Aug 01, 2007

Deepak Singh has a post today at business|bytes|genes|molecules that inspires some fun daydreaming: what could we do if the human body was a software program that we could debug? Singh writes, "It would be wonderful if we could add breakpoints to various points in the body and run a debugging program to find potential problems."

Great theory. But GTO wonders, what happens if the program gets stuck in a loop? This picture of a 12-headed jellyfish might be a cautionary tale.

 

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