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by max_ 1659 days ago
>In contrast, a non–growth-based form of self-replication dominates at the subcellular level: molecular machines assemble material in their external environment into functional self-copies directly, or in concert with other machines. Such kinematic replication has never been observed at higher levels of biological organization, nor was it known whether multicellular systems were even capable of it.

I can't tell if this is computer science, physics or biology. Artificial life?

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Alan Turing was also a biologist. John von Neumann was deeply interested in biology. The fields have always been deeply connected as both ultimately study information processes.
Always has been the same.