It is not as strange when you see information move from sexual/asexual genetic reproduction, to markings on clay tablets and the mental diversity of human knowl

It is not as strange when you see information move from sexual/asexual genetic reproduction, to markings on clay tablets and the mental diversity of human knowledge propagating with faster, more flexible fitness functions than the foundational survival/extinction binary. DNA is an arbitrary (albeit important) replicant and not at all the only form of physical memory.