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You can grow an eye on a frog's tail. No genetic modification, just change the voltage state of the cells. They compute 'I should be an eye' from the electrical pattern alone.
The genome is a parts list. Voltage gradients tell cells what to become. We've mostly been ignoring that layer.
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