BEYOND REPLICANTS. “Biological reproduction— unlike photocopying, in which only a re-production of information is required— involves a degree of material continuity between the original and the descendant. Indeed, in the replication of DNA, new double helices are partially constituted from the material of the old double helices. Treating replication as copying has the inadvertent consequence of diverting attention from the causal process that generates it.”
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