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Would life not be easier to be understood if one thought of cells, living beings, as machines, self-replicating units, automata, that continuously reproduce themselves, yielding descendant automata identical to themselves?
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Hausmann, R. (2002). Genes. In: To Grasp the Essence of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3540-7_2
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