John von Neumann deduced that organisms must contain a 'tape' of instructions and a 'Universal Constructor' to explain how they inherit ancestral design properties and maintain orderliness in apparent defiance of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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  Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective

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