Notes

  1. If one were to create one single molecule of all possible proteins (which require carbon atoms), all the matter in the universe, suitably transformed, would not be sufficient to realize such a utopian project.
  2. If we remain at the primate level, for example, we see mostly unmechanized, planned behavior (though no long‐range planned behavior as far as we can judge). However, anthropods such as mason wasps, whenever the normal course of events has been disturbed, resume mechanical behavior.