A classical example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve. Nobody in his right mind would design a nerve running from your brain to your larynx that way.
> A classical example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve. Nobody in his right mind would design a nerve running from your brain to your larynx that way.
The matter is, the possibilities of DNA are infinite, you can create Godzilla if you knew how. The problem is, nobody knows how, so evolution is all we have - random mutations and survival will lead to /something/. Even genetical engineering now is in essence copy pasting of certain parts that we know work in a specific way, bound by what currently exists. But if you could really grasp biology, that works down to the single molecule and atomic levels, and actually dictate it however you like, I think it would be the final technology we would ever need.
In code, a single typo breaks the whole thing. So spaghetti code by definition is bad and breaks easily.
Sure, we have a fuck ton of complexity. But it’s only messy to us because we don’t understand all the conditions that led to it.
Humans certainly have flaws, but in general we are as well suited to surviving on Earth as you possibly can be, especially on the whole.
I’d say: we’re so so much better designed than any code that exists anywhere today, that it’s a farce. We are literally the opposite of spaghetti code. We’re Antifragile!
A single typo sometimes breaks the whole thing. Sometimes, it does not. The same is true for genetic mutations in humans - most typos are harmless, a few give us nasty cancers.
"Spaghetti code" doesn't mean "broken". It means "hard to maintain". Our modern medical system is pretty decent proof that maintaining a human is quite a bit of work.
Furthermore, there are plenty of examples of single gene mutations/interventions that are deadly/crippling.
There are myriad of examples of our body having feature which you could equate to biological spaghetti.
Only in high-level languages, when you have to deal with grammar.
DNA is better compared to binary code fed to a CPU. There is no equivalent of "a single typo breaks the whole thing" there; whatever you feed the CPU, it will execute something. Whether you'll like the results or not is another question - but the same is true with biology. The DNA is there, physically, and it will interact with proteins in one way or another.