[Nebullis]

More importantly, DNA doesn't "do" anything, merely providing a template.

This is like saying, organisms don't "do" anything, they just propagate.

[Nebullis]

DNA is a dynamic structure with multiple functions.

[tortoise]

This is like saying, organisms don't "do" anything, they just propagate.

In a sense, this is essentially true depending on how you look at it.

My point was that most of the phase space filtering doesn't occur in the DNA itself, so the distibution there doesn't really matter. It is largely the substrate.