Bacterial wisdom, Godel's theorem and creative genomic webs - Eshel Ben-Jacob

This paper is devoted to presenting an alternative approach to the Darwinian one. The basic assumption is that the creativity observed in nature is not an illusion but part of an objective reality. In the new picture evolutionary progress is not a result of successful accumulation of mistakes, but is rather the outcome of designed creative processes in the genome.

http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/papers/bacterial%20wisd...

"The genome, as I see it, is not merely a storage device, but a sophisticated cybernetic entity well beyond a universal Turing machine".

"I further assume that the genome has self-awareness."

"The ideas presented here are part of an intellectual endeavor I began in 1988"