He asserts that living organisms must inherently function as universal computers to perform self-replication.

“you have to have a computer inside yourself as a cell in order to make another cell. And DNA is in this very literal sense a touring tape. So uh you know it's it's a very profound insight because you know basically he's saying you cannot be a living organism without literally being a computer a univ”

Computational biology allows for the simulation of complex biological patterns using mathematical equations.

“And what he would do is he would start off with like a soup of kind of random noise, like little fluctuations here and there. And then, he would watch as the computer spat out what looked like the perfect image of the spots that you get on a leopard or on the or the stripes of a zebra.”

Predictive policing algorithms can lead to automated harassment of specific communities.

“And it will not surprise you when I tell you that in LA in particular, the neighborhoods which were disproportionately flagged as hotspots by this algorithm were neighborhoods that disproportionately contained African-American residents. And so what ended up happening essentially is that this opened”