Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical

Hear now the words of Ryan Bethencourt: “Biology – DNA – is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.” These are not idle musings, but a proclamation that joins the wisdom of nature with the spirit of invention. For what men shape with bronze and steel, nature has already woven in flesh and blood. DNA is the script, the ancient scroll, the divine sequence by which life is written. It is the alphabet of creation, each letter carved not in ink, but in the molecules that bind us to the earth and the stars. To understand this is to recognize that life itself is a form of technology—older than the wheel, older than fire, older than any forge or loom.

Consider the codex of life as though it were a tapestry, threads intertwining, patterns emerging with logic and beauty. In the marrow of our bones and the pulse of our veins lies an architecture as intricate as the most wondrous of palaces. We are not adrift in chaos, but built upon a code—line upon line, instruction upon instruction. Just as a scribe carves wisdom into stone, so has the earth inscribed its teachings into the spirals of DNA. To call this technology is no blasphemy, but reverence: it is the acknowledgment that nature herself is the first engineer, the first coder, the first maker.

Reflect upon the story of Gregor Mendel, the quiet monk who tended his peas with patience and devotion. He did not know of DNA, yet by the color of blossoms and the wrinkling of seeds he glimpsed the hidden code that guided their fate. Mendel saw patterns where others saw chance. He discerned order in what seemed like the play of fortune. His garden became his library, and through its fruits he read fragments of the great script. From his humble monastery arose the first understanding of genetics, the recognition that behind every leaf and every child there lies a design that can be traced, studied, and—yes—one day shaped.

Thus Bethencourt speaks truth when he names DNA as coding. For what is coding but a set of instructions, a chain of commands, a song that brings order to silence? In the age of machines, we write codes that summon images on glowing screens. In the age of the cosmos, nature wrote codes that summon wings for birds, fins for fish, and voices for humankind. The resemblance is not coincidence, but revelation: both our digital languages and nature’s genetic tongue spring from the same root—an eternal hunger for structure, meaning, and creation.

Let none mistake this for cold machinery. The code of life is not sterile, but sacred. It is written in the sweat of mothers, in the courage of warriors, in the laughter of children. It births not circuits, but souls. And yet, because it is code, it may be read, and because it may be read, it may be altered. This is both glory and danger. For those who wield this knowledge hold the power of renewal or ruin in their hands. Like Prometheus who stole fire from the gods, mankind must decide whether it will use this flame to warm its people or to burn its world.

The lesson for us, O seeker of wisdom, is this: regard life with awe, but also with vigilance. Understand that you too are coded, shaped by generations before you, yet not bound like a prisoner. For code can be rewritten—not only in laboratories, but in the daily choices of your mind and spirit. Just as DNA may evolve, so too can your habits, your thoughts, your path. You are not fixed stone, but living script, able to carve new verses into the poem of your being.

So take this teaching and let it kindle your resolve. Study the patterns of your life as Mendel studied his peas. Rewrite what no longer serves you. Build yourself as nature built wings for the eagle: through countless refinements, through endless persistence. And when you speak to others, let them see that you, too, are a living technology, a bearer of sacred code. In this way, you honor the wisdom of Bethencourt’s words, and you join the eternal labor of creation.

Now rise, and walk forth with reverence. For every breath you draw is a line of code running through you, every step a command executed by the universe. Use this power wisely. Live as one who carries the original technology within.