It also assumes that all the information needed to build a new human is in the DNA, which is clearly false. A lot of information is in the "factory" and process.
Show me a human that has been created from conception to healthy birth in-vitro.
For the patching/dog example: you can't currently implant a dog embryo into a human woman and expect to get a viable birth.
If I have a really full-featured runtime, hey, I can make smaller programs. But ... not all the information required to create the program is in the source code.
infinite8s
Even more importantly, you can't take the nucleus from one species and implant it into the egg of another and get a viable organism (unless the species are very closely related).
Show me a human that has been created from conception to healthy birth in-vitro.
For the patching/dog example: you can't currently implant a dog embryo into a human woman and expect to get a viable birth.
If I have a really full-featured runtime, hey, I can make smaller programs. But ... not all the information required to create the program is in the source code.