The thing about biology is that it's had a ~3 bn. year head start. It's also massively contingent; see evolution by natural selection. Which means that it may n

The thing about biology is that it's had a ~3 bn. year head start. It's also massively contingent; see evolution by natural selection. Which means that it may not actually represent any kind of global optimum[1]. [1] EDIT: Or even a local one if you're not optimizing the same thing that biology is.