Is coronavirus like a computer virus?
So is coronavirus like a computer virus? Well obviously not. Coronavirus is obviously biological in that it consists of living bits of chemical called proteins. Whilst a computer virus is a non-living object. Now the thesis of this Digital Human Book is that everything biological and living can be represented in digital code. Essentially thousands of bits (like light bulbs) that are either switched on or off in the computer’s memory. Now if you projected all these bits on to the side of a building you could see many different patterns in it. When these small patterns look the same you have within these masses of bits identified a common object. It could be the digital representation of your face used in face recognition. Or for coronavirus it would be the digital pattern that has been identified firstly in China and subsequently at many locations throughout the world. In fact all the current coronavirus testing takes the test swab and through a process called the “polymerase chain reaction test” detects the virus genetic information. Now the interesting challenge would be to reverse engineer the process where this genetic digital information could be generated back into a biological virus. From computer code back to a living thing.
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