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[HydrogenBond]

Genetics is very conservative and changes slowly. The mind/brain emulations can create potentials between the mind/brain emulation and conservative machine of genetics. A good mechanical analogy to see a type of effect is a washing machine. If too many clothes end up on one side, the wash machine will starts to buck and make noise. The genetic machine is designed to handle the weight of these clothes and will last for years, but they clothes need to be distributed evenly, or else unbalanced stresses will appear.

Relative to our unbalanced wash emulation, the washing machine might start to walk across the floor. Theoretically, one could use this imbalanced walk, to turn the wash machine into a plow. We have not altered the genetic machine, at the hardware level. We are still using it to wash clothes, but we have turned the genetic software emulation into two things. Technically, the new walking and plowing features are connected to genes without any change to the DNA in terms of sequences. Although genetic expression may shift due to the imbalance.