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It's not, but I think it was premature to assume that's what the un-decodrd sections are.

Looking at the hex dump of RAM, some repetition is garbage, some is lookup tables with multiple entries into the same routine, some is initialized scratch memory for distant functions. It'd be premature to assume it's worthless.

Software code analogies to biological encoding break down, of course, because code is built intentionally and biological systems aren't. On the flip side, that very lack of intentionality in biological systems means it's risky to assume something is junk without a really holistic understanding of the context.



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