Today I’m gonna ask a simple question: if we were to rerun the film of life a given number of times, pretty much like rerunning a program, would most things happen identically? Of course the program of life has many non-deterministic variables. Would we all still develop eyes and limbs? Would the same music be […]
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Anti-Virus Panaceum Elusive?
Have you read any of Frederick Cohen’s books on computer viruses? I for one have read his “Computer Viruses”, (the title here is taken from the Romanian translation of the book) and was henceforth fascinated by the idea of creating an operating system immune to viruses. The idea was by no means new. Dr. […]
The Selfish Gene
A while back, while struggling with the final chapters of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species” book, I had the opportunity to borrow a small and apparently dull book from an acquaintance. The acquaintance is a Russian person who had worked in Biotechnologies for decades and the book is Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish […]