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If you put an approximately, I'll take that.

Well, you're still a group of cells.

You mean like you versus Luca?

Are you relating to Luca right now?

No, no, no.

So you defy the code of Douglas Adams.

You are proud of your ancestors and you invite them over to dinner and you invite them over to your Twitter account.

Yes, it's almost intelligence at the chemical level, and this is also probably one of the first chemically intelligent systems that evolved by itself in nature.

In its own way, and again, if we manage to figure out how to drive life's evolution, if it can evolve a sophisticated sort of informatic processing system like this, you may ask yourself, what might chemical systems do?

be capable of independently doing under different circumstances.

So that's a great segue into what makes this biological, right?

The heart of the cellular activities are translation.

You kill translation, you kill the cell.

Not only the translation itself, you kill the component that initiates it, you kill the cell.

You remove the component that elongates it, you kill the cell.

So there are many different ways to disrupt this machinery.

All the parts are important.

Now, it can vary across different organisms.

We see variation between bacteria versus eukaryotes versus archaea, right?

So it is not the same exact steps, but...