An under-appreciated aspect of molecular biological systems and structures is that they are dominated by local interactions that have no knowledge of the global

An under-appreciated aspect of molecular biological systems and structures is that they are dominated by local interactions that have no knowledge of the global state but direct self-assembly. They are unplanned both in terms of structure and function. They persist because they provide a selective advantage to the system and their instructions are encoded in the reproductive information store of their parent system.