When the laws of math, logic, and syntax are adhered to, symbolic code operates effectively as a “program” — as geneticist Juan Enriquez describes DNA. Such a program is an “executable” that performs tasks. In the case of DNA, Enriquez describes an apple as receiving input from the sun and executing its various lines of code and dropping from a tree.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/07/11/if-dna-is-code-consider-ethnicityrace-as-a-template/

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