Evolution is a physical, embodied process, not reducible to pieces of data. Organisms flow down the ages by reproduction and by evolution, literally mingling bodies – their forms – at a moment in time and from generation to generation, something no machine does: every embodied reproduction is evolution in action, and every evolutionary advance is an embodied reproduction. Offspring of organisms, from single cell to homo sapiens, are not separately engineered from new material externally, but emerge as new whole forms from the material forms of the bodies of their parents. The flow is embodied
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