Gurzadyan, then, imagines a type of what might be called “information panspermia”. He describes the possibility of a Galaxy in which ETCs establish a network of self-replicating Bracewell–von Neumann probes and life is propagated not by sending the genomes themselves but by sending the programs that can recover the genomic information. In other words the probes, which could be many light years away from their home planet, would receive coded strings and from those strings reconstitute the full panoply of that planet’s life. Even now, life might be raining down on us. But it would be a
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