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If you follow Richard Dawkin’s reasoning that all organisms are just very effective DNA replication machines, this makes a lot of sense.
by Cockbrand 3y ago
If you follow Richard Dawkin’s reasoning that all organisms are just very effective DNA replication machines, this makes a lot of sense.
- bobim 3y agoOn the end a "competitive advantage" is a thing that helps to nicely explain a lot of things like vision, self-consciousness, feelings… Does nothing to the reason why Von Neumann machines appeared on our planet thought.
- Cockbrand 3y ago"The Selfish Gene" attempts to explain this, starting with self-replicating (IIRC) predecessors of amino acids in the primordial soup, which became more and more complex. It's been a while since I read it, so I don't recall details any more.