Can't say it often enough—change your hair, change your life.
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.