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Needs to carry out repetitive processes.

And it does the tasks and it implements an algorithm, but it is not dynamic.

So you see both of those attributes in translation combined.

It is repetitive, right?

And it is dynamic.

And it also processes this information.

So they are fundamentally different.

I don't know if you can get life if you don't find a way to process the information around you.

Yeah, and somehow that's what got selected.

Maybe not selected.

I don't know if it was accidental.

But that's what seems to be conserved for four billion years.

That's what life established upon.

I think when we truly understand the answer to that question, we may have just made ourselves life, right?

I don't think we know quite how translation machinery as a whole fits into the equation.

So we try to understand ribosomes, RNA, how the linear information is processed.

or the genetic code, why this codons, not others, why 20, not more, not less.

And we are sort of moving towards transition.

That's what we are working on anyway, to finally look at the patterns in which this system operates itself.

And if you understand that, you're really unlocking a very emergent behavior.