codonaft on Nostr: It's an oversimplification, but mathematically, yes. DNA is a kind of pattern memory ...

It's an oversimplification, but mathematically, yes.

DNA is a kind of pattern memory storage we carry from others, as an obvious example. I've talked about that: when some of us see a spider/huge pit/etc., we have a "recall of a previous life experience" if you will—a reaction to some creepy thing that was programmed into our ancestors' DNA, long before our instance of existence.

We are probably never a perfect copy of a particular ancestor, though; we're mixes. Even if we were a perfect copy, we're still not separable from the ever-changing environment around us, from interactions with it; the state of the environment influences our next state. So in order to experience exactly the same thing as a previous copy (not just some internal verbal/emotional/etc. thing but everything, a perfect copy of our state subjectively and objectively), we'd also need the same state of the surrounding environment, and even that wouldn't be enough due to the nondeterministic processes, at least on the particle level.