coupleofdays:

I’ve been thinking recently of this scene in Tron: Legacy, where Kevin repairs Quorra’s damage by going through her code:

I’ve previously written about how I think the ISOs were created by the Grid somehow interacting with Kevin’s genetic material, which caused it to generate complex digital lifeforms on its own. In the clip above, we can clearly see that Quorra’s “code” is visualized in the form of a genetic helix (possibly a triple helix?), and Kevin repairs it by pulling out a piece of this helix and letting it fly away.

Now, consider another theory I have, that the “Bits” in the original movie are in fact small fragments of Programs, and that they “belong” to a particular Program (so the Bit we see in the beginning is Clu’s Bit, for example).

But if ISOs aren’t made of “zeroes and ones”, I.E. Bits in a sequence, but of genetic code, I.E. amino acids (or whatever their digital equivalent would be) in a sequence (that are then the “code” for the construction of proteins)…

…then might the small piece that Kevin pulls out from Quorra’s genetic code, that flutters away like a butterfly, be the ISO equivalent to a Bit? A small sequence of amino acids, perhaps a codon of three acids? And would this mean that, instead of saying “YES” and “NO” like a Program Bit, an ISO Codon can speak through various combinations of the letters A, C, G, T and U?