Thank you. Great point about the medium being the message. YOU beat me to it.
***Good post; you beat me to it. A genetic sequence written out on a piece of paper can't replicate, the biological one can. The medium is the message...
Good, now someone explain how to "create" DNA. Has it been done in a lab? And DNA is just one complicated part of the human body. How about blood clotting? How can blood clotting develop over time, step by step, without bleeding to death in the meantime? The whole system needs to be in place. Clot in lung, you die. Clot 30 minutes after a cut, you die. Clot throughout your whole body, you die. Clot that doesn't cover the whole cut, you die.