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> It had a bit more time to develop

And it wasn't planned, but evolved. No plan, no developer. Hard to imagine.

> the genetic material of a human is just a single gigabyte

Indeed apples and oranges [*]. As long as we don't know all functions of this molecular machinery (and there is a very good chance we will never know all those functions) all comparisons with programming languages are pure speculations. Some "subsystems" seem to be representable by "programming languages" (as long as one ignores many unknowns and special cases). But the complexity not only happens on molecular level.

> comes from the massive parallelism of the code execution

A very daring comparison.

[*] EDIT: mind that the genetic material e.g. assumes all the laws of physics and chemistry (also those we do not yet know) which are not explicitly encoded.




>And it wasn't planned, but evolved. No plan, no developer. Hard to imagine.

Explains all those bugs and bad design choices, doesn't it.


> Explains all those bugs and bad design choices

If there is any choice at all in natural selection, it is only in the choice of the reproductive partner. Apparently, the result of the selection process is not so bad, otherwise we would not have survived. Of course, we still have the chance to go extinct.




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