Material cause in a
> computer program is totally different from material cause in a system
> functioning to produce new computers from existing one.
Read the appendix from Edelman's Brilliance and fire, who sais the
same thing. In computers everything is digital [o and 1], in brains,
and other living things this is not so. Also a living creature has
final causes in it [he calls it value systems] gathered in its past.
This is where the difference between computersimulations of life, and
real life differ.
Theories come and go, the frog stays [F. Jacob]
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