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This makes no sense. Cells duplicate, but can you make a cell without splitting one in 2?

• ben_w 3y ago
  Why does it matter how it works? The 3.2 billion base pair model that is my genome doesn't understand the physics or the chemistry.
  • mrguyorama 3y ago
    That's entirely wrong. The interactions of proteins and amino acids and ions IS, at a fundamental level, the evaluation of physics over time.
    • ben_w 3y ago
      I'm not saying it isn't physics, I'm saying it doesn't know what the physics is. We're physics too, but we don't know how it all fits together. If a sub-part of us that knows less than we do can make a copy of us, despite not knowing how it all works, that's an existence proof that we don't need to understand how it all works to make a copy of us.