This was a really great (and long) chapter. It reviews several of the dialogs and their meaning and purpose. It has a large section on microbiology that was written so a novice like myself could understand the points. The part where each amino acids' instruction was listed made me think about software instructions.
I enjoyed the sections on Quines and software. I picked up on the program and data components that are often used in writing Quines. I've written a few Quine programs for fun. I've had issues with making them large and do meaningful things other than replication. I seem to have to put all the code in a single source file. Generating any sort of mutations would always seem to lead to code that would fail compilation.
Near the end of the chapter, I liked the discussion on feedforward and feedback. This made sense to me in the realm of neural network concepts that I've been working with recently too.
I enjoyed the sections on Quines and software. I picked up on the program and data components that are often used in writing Quines. I've written a few Quine programs for fun. I've had issues with making them large and do meaningful things other than replication. I seem to have to put all the code in a single source file. Generating any sort of mutations would always seem to lead to code that would fail compilation.
Near the end of the chapter, I liked the discussion on feedforward and feedback. This made sense to me in the realm of neural network concepts that I've been working with recently too.