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Evolutionary Capacity:
Why organisms cannot be like machines

August 2, 2009

I‘ve just posted a paper on evolution and the organization of complex systems at E-drexler.com. The paper discusses things like factories, paint, and conjoined twins to illustrate four crucial differences between machine-like and life-like systems.
As an update, I added a preface that outlines the thesis of the paper and explains why the title (“Biological and [...]

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