And even more so, a product of our cells and RNA soup and so on. There's a truly huge operating system that DNA operates in. I think of DNA, when I think of it as all in a coding way, as a top-level script on top of enormous machinery. Like a switch on a giant factory, that says 'man' when you flip it one way and 'mouse' when flipped the other. Does the switch encode what it means to be a man? a mouse? No.