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A general question by those that support ideas like Intelligent Design seem to focus on the notion of order from randomness. Specifically the natural intuition is that the vast amount of order associated with life could never arise on its own from just randomness. It's encouraging to be able to so quickly demonstrate that in fact order can emerge from chaos. Even if the organelles or molecules or whatever you might consider them in these simulations don't map specifically to organelles or molecules or cells in our world, the general concept is important to understand.


where do the rules come from? Is it randomness all the way down? how come they run at all? how can a lifeform in a dynamic mess of jiggling things have a claim to understanding?




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