Betül Kaçar

But going back to the biological component, all of these attributes that we think about life or that we associate with biology stems from translation as well as metabolism, but

I see metabolism as a way to keep translation going and translation keeps metabolism going, but translation is arguably a bit more sophisticated process for the reasons that I just described.

It's a way to process materials, and it is inherently dynamic, and it is flexible, but it is not focused on repetition as translation does.

So that's the main difference.

Translation is kind of, in a way, just repeats, right?

So you have the metabolism that can synthesize materials.

It creates or benefits from available energy.

And again, it's a dynamic system.

And then you have computation that is inherently repetitive, right?

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.