All computer programs are ultimately a complex code of circuits opening and closing, representing zeroes and ones, but no human cares about that, and no one writes in machine code. What we care about are the tasks and jobs that code represents: the movie you want to watch, the message you want to send, the news and financial statements you want to read. To illustrate this point in the language of biology: the molecular structures and chemical reactions that characterize life look like incredibly complex noise unless you step up to the level of the organism and realize that they all serve the
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