Evolutionary Biologists VS. The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtB-278kWlQ In 1966, there was a conference held at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and this problem was first explicitly formulated. There was an MIT scientist, a professor of engineering, Murray Eden, a computer engineer who raised the problem this way. He said that, "No currently existing formal language can tolerate random changes in the symbol sequences which express its sentences. Meaning is almost invariably destroyed." Now this conference followed a picnic in 1965 on the lawn of a famous MIT physicist named Victor Weisskopf. And at the picnic an argument broke out between the physicists, the engineers, the computer scientists, and the mathematicians on one side and the biologists on the other. The biologists have been chatting up all the exciting things that had been going on in their…