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Re: Do robots have feelings?
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Our DNA contains duplicate (redundant) information, which allows reproduction to take place with error detection and correction.

An engineering equivalent is flight control systems, which have 3 or 4 copies of each unit, that constantly cross check each other. If one is found to be operating differently than the rest then it is locked out by the others. Thats error detection.
A lot of our DNA also contains garbage from previous ancestors that wasn't "overwritten", just ignored. A programming equivalent would be commenting out a bunch of code, and when you decide not to use it, just leave it there and write more code.
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