…one that is most famous. For James Randi being among its activists and this was published. It was a paper by Francisco Varela who claimed to have refuted the hypothesis of formative causation, and the experiment that he had done involved programming a…

…crystals, molecules and atoms are. Rather the program that's going on is not something that's created itself but rather something which Varela had thought up and put inside the machine. There was nothing self organising about that and therefore this wasn't a…

…inside the machine. There was nothing self organising about that and therefore this wasn't a test of the theory. Anyway Varela Didn't agree and said that I couldn't maintain that living organisms were not machines like computers because both organisms and…

…one that's most famous for James Randi being among its activists, and this was published. It was a paper by Francisco Varela who claimed to have refuted the hypothesis of formative causation, and the experiment that he'd done involved programming a desktop…

…molecules and atoms are. Rather the program that's going on is not something that's created itself but rather it's something which Varela had thought up and put inside the machine. There's nothing self organizing about that and therefore this wasn't a test…

…put inside the machine. There's nothing self organizing about that and therefore this wasn't a test of the theory. Anyway, Varela Didn't agree and said that I couldn't maintain that living organisms were not machines like computers because both organisms and…