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To: betty boop
The initial program requires a programmer - but the program can subsequently modify itself.

If there exists an algorithm [Euclidean which includes decision, process and recursives] which is also self-modifying, at the inception of biological life, then we can pitch abiogenesis for good. LOL!

1,620 posted on 07/26/2007 9:59:38 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; dougd; hosepipe
The initial program requires a programmer - but the program can subsequently modify itself....

Indeed. It has been explicitly designed so that it can do so, I imagine.

1,623 posted on 07/26/2007 10:06:18 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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