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GROWING DIGITAL GENE POOL. "Autonomously replicating entities have been considered as useful tools for information gathering, anti-virus software and distributed computing. Widespread use of such agents may provide a "gene-pool" of sophisticated code for mutation amid evolution. It has already been mentioned how the increase in computing activity will lead to more opportunity for mutation." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

FURTHER COMPLEXIFICATION. "Adding another input to an already complex process, a nuclear hormone receptor was recently shown to influence binary specification." https://lnkd.in/dAxynvD View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "In many situations commonly accepted as SelfModifyingCode, the machine code being modified is a different part of the program than that doing the modifying." https://lnkd.in/dknBRJD View in LinkedIn

BYZANTINE REGULATION. "Upstream cue(s) aside, the regulation of POP-1 asymmetry and binary specification in C. elegans seems byzantine. Indeed, nematodes are the only animal phylum with multiple β-catenin genes, and the nematode β-catenins are extremely diverged in amino acid sequence; most animal genomes encode a single β-catenin, although vertebrates encode one additional β-catenin homolog called plakoglobin." https://lnkd.in/dAxynvD View in LinkedIn

PSEUDO SELF-MODIFYING. "For machine-code, SelfModifyingCode would be machine-code running on the CPU that reaches into its own in-memory or on-disk representation and tweaks that representation. And, even in the case of FPGAs and transmeta toolsets where you have a CPU that is modifiable, it generally isn't self modifying." https://lnkd.in/dknBRJD View in LinkedIn

REWIRING GENE REGULATION. "Our results suggest that promoter gain and loss is an important process in the evolutionary rewiring of gene regulation and may be a significant source of phenotypic diversification." https://lnkd.in/d6USApZ View in LinkedIn

"PROMOTOR TURNOVER has occurred at the majority (>56%) of protein-coding genes since humans and mice diverged. Tissue-restricted promoters are the most evolutionarily volatile where retrotransposition is an important, but not the sole source of innovation." https://lnkd.in/d6USApZ View in LinkedIn

CONTROLLING GENE REGULATORS such as promotors is thought to be better than mutation in biological systems. View in LinkedIn

FLAGS AS REGULATORS. "They do control behavior, but it is possible to usefully distinguish running immutable code with varying behavior due to varying inputs vs. direct mutation of the code." https://lnkd.in/dknBRJD View in LinkedIn

CODING FLAGS. "Variables that are set and changed for the purpose of controlling the behavior of code are commonly called flags. FlagsAreSelfModifyingCode. That is NOT self-modifying code. Flags control which pre-existing code gets run. They do not modify the pre-existing code." https://lnkd.in/dknBRJD View in LinkedIn