Re:Biologists and Psychologists Abuse this... (Score 1)

A single cell is vastly more complex than any computer in existance today. Each cell is essentially a massively parallel system. The great limitation of the analogy is that computers can only execute one instruction at any given time. Whereas within a cell each protein (and in some cases other molecules) might be compared to a program or function, millions and billions of them running all at once interacting with each other by chance in the absence of any type of clock but that which their concentrations and interactions may provide. Sure the overall way that genes have mutations and 'matings' introduced can be easily replicated in strings or whatever you may prefer. But computer programs and systems, because we design them from scratch and come up with every specification are vastly more understood than cellular biology currently is.