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| Thinking humans - an unlikely product of dead matter |
As thinking humans we are all the unlikely
product of dead matter. Some time ago, and for reasons still poorly understood,
the dead matter of which we are made got lucky. After exploring innumerable
dead ends, long chain molecules eventually emerged which could manufacture near
exact copies of themselves. This was no mean feat for dead matter, since the
act of replication could both store and transmit information, accelerating the
process of self-organisation.
