Blaise Agüera y Arcas: Biology Has Been Doing Computer Science for 4 Billion Years
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-10-20
Google researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas notes that biology has been doing computer science for four billion years. Before DNA was discovered, Alan Turing and John von Neumann worked out the logic of self-replicating machines, showing how matter folds into a system that reads and executes instructions to build itself.
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