[benmowa]

Reminds me of one of my favorite books titled:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes, by Charles Seife

One item discussed in the book that we as humans may just be a transport method for the data within DNA to survive time. Because without some replication it would get trapped and cease to exist.

[paulryanrogers]

The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) actually explores the idea that organisms began as DNA replicating 'machines'.