Does DNA contain digital information?

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Afterall, the universe itself might be a giant quantum computer: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Black...puters.pdf

Awesome article, cheers for the link.

If you're into this train of thought you should look into the 'holographic principle'.

If, in principle, a sufficiently powerful digital computer running sufficiently sophisticated software can simulate physical processes to arbitrary accuracy and precision over an arbitrarily large slice of the universe, then we can say to the scope and precision desired, the digital process of computer is an analogue to the physical universe close enough to be indistinguishable to the real thing to the end user.

Then the reverse would also be true - that to such degree of precision and scope, the physical universe is also an adequate analogue to this digital computer close enough to be indistinguishable from the real thing.