Systems | The Beginning of Infinity 3 of 5 | David Deutsch
The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog
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All the Jumps to Universality Happened on Earth
All known jumps to universality happened under the auspices of human beings, except for one. It happened during the early evolution of life. The familiarity of what happened next can obscure how remarkable and mysterious it is. Initially, the genetic code and the mechanism that interpreted it were both evolving along with everything else in the organisms. But as a result, the replication process became ever less like straightforward catalysts and ever more like programming in a language or genetic code used bases as an alphabet.
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