How fascinating life and reality are

Imagine this:

In the late 1940s, a scientist John von Neumann was working on a purely logical model of self-replication. He wanted to understand how a machine could copy itself. That work became part of the conceptual foundation of modern computing. What von Neumann didn’t know is that he was also, unintentionally, describing how biological life works.

A few years later, when Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA (1953), people like Sydney Brenner instantly saw it: DNA is the physical implementation of the logical design von Neumann predicted. A system that not only copies the organism, but also copies the instructions that build the organism.

And the more you think about it, the more striking the parallel becomes: programming is, in a deep sense, similar to creating organisms.

Information → instructions → structure → behavior → replication.

The same logic underlies life and machines.