Some people view the importance of Crick and Watson’s discovery as revealing the mechanism behind heredity, however, at the end of day I think it is more important because it made biology computable – they revealed the instruction set. The algorithmization of biology is old news. The algorithmization of consiousness is a more interesting modern problem. Kristof Koch, who was one of Crick’s main collaborators in the past decade, is moving in that direction but calling it the neuronal correlates of consiousness NCC. Will we find a similiar instruction set for consiousness that will make it computable?
Some people view the importance of Crick and Watson’s discovery as revealing the mechanism behind heredity, however, at the end of day I think it is more important because it made biology computable – they revealed the instruction set. The algorithmization of biology is old news. The algorithmization of consiousness is a more interesting modern problem. Kristof Koch, who was one of Crick’s main collaborators in the past decade, is moving in that direction but calling it the neuronal correlates of consiousness NCC. Will we find a similiar instruction set for consiousness that will make it computable?