This is well within the parameters of multi-level coding implicit in DNA.
Give you an example of how important this is ~ when you go looking for gold ~ and who hasn't ~ if you go for the flakes you can see, you need substantial capital investment and machinery of different sorts. if, on the other hand, you go for nanoparticles, which has been done, it's totally different. They call the finest particles, which you cannot see by themselves, 'gold flour' ~ which means you have to have an awful lot of them to see them to know you've collected some gold.
Termites can mine gold nanoparticles and poop them out in their nests BTW which is a recent discovery discussed earlier on FR.
The big difference between the particles and the nano particles is that the particles don't float, and the nano particles do float.
When using water in your process of extracting gold from the background matrix the technological solutions are different depending on the size of that gold particle.
The difference takes place at a level of smallness that the vanderwaals forces are relevant.
Self assembly into molecular machines like DNA, or little tiny motors that work on heat differentials seems to be built into the demiurge of the atoms themselves. Eventually I think they'll find that life can be caused to self assemble ~ possibly through the mediation and cogitation of supercomputer segments actually found within DNA.
Really ?
You seem to be where I was a number of years ago.
Trying desperately to convince myself that I was free to do what I pleased.
I suggest you look at the math or probabilities necessary for random mutations, conserved and selected in any given environment that would result in an increase of information. Evolution is all about death.