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[Correspondence] On the computability of biological machines
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In the book Natural Theology (1802), the English philosopher and theologian William Paley argued that the complexity of an organism, similar to that of a watch, implied the handiwork of a designer.1 His reasoning rested on the intuition that intricate organisation could not arise from compact generative principles.