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Living things are complicated. They are also highly organised. But there seems to be absolutely nothing which requires them to be organic.

'Computers which need to simulate the subtleties of human language and behaviour are already being provided with 'fuzzy logic' circuitry that produces indefinite answers instead of the usual clear-cut binary yes or no. Fuzziness requires a certain complexity of both construction and design. And that may well be the only fact about life which is truly universal.