We can infer the ‘intention’ of genes to render an environment that will replicate them, from Darwin’s theory of evolution. Genes become extinct if they do not enact that ‘intention’ as efficiently or resolutely as other competing genes. So living processes and virtual-reality renderings are, superficial differences aside, the same sort of process. Both involve the physical embodying of general theories about an environment. In both cases these theories are used to realize that environment and to control, interactively, not just its instantaneous appearance but also its detailed response to
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