{"id":79,"date":"2001-12-29T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-30T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-12-30T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:34:22","slug":"raining-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Raining instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some people distinguish between biological life and machines. But if you look deeply enough, biological life is just a machine called DNA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-of-dawkins.com\/Dawkins\/Biography\/bio.htm\" title=\"biography\">Richard Dawkins<\/a> said it best in chapter 5 of his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393315703\/102-3058395-5152924\" title=\"(amazon.com)\">The Blind Watchmaker<\/a>, after observing downy seeds falling from a willow in his garden:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people distinguish between biological life and machines. But if you look deeply enough, biological life is just a machine called DNA. Richard Dawkins said it best in chapter 5 of his book The Blind Watchmaker, after observing downy seeds falling from a willow in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=79\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}