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>Also, the reverse might be possible, i.e., decompiling genetic code from phenotype and so on.

I don't know anything about decompiling or ML, but doesn't the black box nature of NN rules this out?

NNs are not a black box in the sense that you cannot see what is going on in them, but in the sense that we currently just very badly understand. You have a function approximator that you have to translate into some other representation. As long as you know how basic building blocks map or can be approximated, it might be possible.

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