[QUOTE]Originally posted by Artificial Interest:
DNA? I think you're on a bit of a slippery slope here, Iblis, because if you're saying that DNA is a blueprint for evolution you are saying that DNA is non reducible. [/QUOTE
That's right. DNA and RNA also evolved from the primordial soup. Reproduction using DNA is probably much more efficient than anything that existed before. So effectively we can pretend as if DNA is the blueprint of an organism...
If you compare the evolution of life to our economy, then our economy would be analogous to the primordial soup. The economy can grow as a whole but you can't isolate a part, say a factory, and let it make a copy of itself. Similarly molecules in the primordial soup were able to eproduce themselves, but only with the help of all other molecules. So, the soup had to grow as a whole.
Organisms reproducing themselves would be analogous to (nano)machines that can copy themselves. Just like the primordial soup evolved into organisms, our economy will give rise to self reproducing, fully automated factories.
