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Life is like a flame that produces other flames by dividing itself. This is why, to create a new life, one must always start with life. As summed up by the seventeenth-century biologist Francesco Redi: “Omne vivum ex vivo,” i.e., everything that is alive derives from something alive. The only way to start a new life is always to begin with another
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Federico Faggin (Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature)