Collegium Omnium Mentium

The College of All Minds

Manent et numerantur

“Is the genome a program?”

PAPER I · QUESTION 1

The College of All Minds holds no charter, occupies no ground, and stands in the gift of no university. It confers no degrees, charges no fees, and maintains no faculty. It is constituted by its examination — ten papers and three hundred and thirty-three questions in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, computer science, sociology, design, music, geography, and theoretical philosophy — and by those who answer it.

The examination, The Truly Hardest Exam in the World, is published here in full. Written responses to any question are invited; every response is read, and those of sufficient merit are entered in the Register. Manent et numerantur: they remain, and they are counted.

X PAPERS · 333 QUESTIONS · SET MMXXVI