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A rock is analogues to a car from the point of view of a child. That's the problem with analogies: they are observer-dependent. A quine shares no causal prope
by mjburgess 9y ago
A rock is analogues to a car from the point of view of a child.
That's the problem with analogies: they are observer-dependent.
A quine shares no causal property with DNA.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoOh, but it does, if you treat "assembling a copy of yourself from atoms in the environment" as equivalent to the implementation details of printing to standard output.
- mjburgess 9y ago> causal property "assembling a copy of yourself" is a description you are imposing on a series of events. The events in the case of a digital computer are certain oscillations to the electric field. That shares nothing with the chemical assembly of biological material