In simplier terms, both the chicken and the egg may have been first. Don
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:16 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Load To Global with PC_cp (OT) > > von Neumann, as many of you presumably know, created working models of > self-reproducing entities, which do so at random, asexually, in an > agitated pea soup of spare parts. > > Sequences like egg-chicken-egg (or, pace Gerhard, chicken-egg-chicken) > have also been modeled, as have explicitly sexual ones. > > It is likely that a number of distinct, competitive processes have > been at work for a very long time. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
