We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid.

We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life
consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive
frames of a watchvid. Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and
start another there? Is life so fragile that it can withstand no
tampering? Does the sacred brook no improvement?

-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Dynamics of Mind"

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