BBC has done a mini-series on the “evolution” of robots, even speaking of invasive species. The silence on the “by design” part is conspicuous, especially as they use a biologist (male) and an engineer (female) as their key personalities: The blindness to the obvious is glaring, inadvertently showing the blinding power of a dominant, flawed paradigm. But, what about reproduction and evolution? Here, von Neumann’s self replicating machine gives us a window into the further required level of design involved: What we are seeing, in short, is induced blindness to the obvious. Where, of course, simply the use of alphanumeric, algorithmic code . . . and thus, communication systems . . . in D/RNA to make proteins is a big Read More ›