>I like to see biology as reverse engineering alien technology made by a much more advanced civilization. Of course that's not true — it all evolved over billio

>I like to see biology as reverse engineering alien technology made by a much more advanced civilization. Of course that's not true — it all evolved over billions of years — but the resemblance is totally there. Be really careful here, though, otherwise you'll hoodwink yourself. The two famous things that come to mind for me are these, both of which remind me to tread carefully: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/andy_grove_rich_famous_smart_and_wrong https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/an... https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD936.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...