Our demise would have been inevitable but for the industrial revolution. We existed for 1 - 3 hundred thousand years perhaps without population growth, without much in the way of technology growth. Then our demise seemed inevitable.
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I see where you're going there. Perhaps a limtied (or parochial) turning machine if we consider an individual cell. But if we consider the system of evolution of that "species" of cell... Wow. Nice idea.
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No, the individual cell can really *run* arbitrary code! The problem is just that the invidual cell does not have a very rich interface to the universe, and no universal function approximator. For that, you need an organism.
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And the relationship between knowledge and intelligence. And the relationship of one instance of an organism and the evolution of that organism.
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