08-19-2015, 05:55 AM
I would expect breeding populations of most species to travel as data. I mean, straight up: Here are fifty thousand genome sequences for humans, along with gestational parameters so you can get the uterine replicator set right. Here are fifty thousand genome sequences for elephants, here are fifty thousand genome sequences for tobacco plants, here are fifty thousand for dermestid beetles, etc....
With, of course, lots of data compression because there's a lot of repeated material between and within species. And this fundamental source document, which along with sufficient infrastructure to operate a uterine replicator, is all you need to set up a whole planetary ecology, is known as the Book Of Life.
Probably a highly extended and annotated version of it will be a holy book in the Zoetropic Biopolity. Probably volumes II and III cover a multitude of tweaks, provolves, and splices and probably volumes IV and V are about Muuh and Soft-One ecologies.
With, of course, lots of data compression because there's a lot of repeated material between and within species. And this fundamental source document, which along with sufficient infrastructure to operate a uterine replicator, is all you need to set up a whole planetary ecology, is known as the Book Of Life.
Probably a highly extended and annotated version of it will be a holy book in the Zoetropic Biopolity. Probably volumes II and III cover a multitude of tweaks, provolves, and splices and probably volumes IV and V are about Muuh and Soft-One ecologies.