Pierre-Grassé 'falou e disse': inteligência é informação, mas qual é a origem

"Any living being possesses an enormous amount of 'intelligence,' very much more than is necessary to build the most magnificent of cathedrals. Today, this 'intelligence' is called 'information,' but it is still the same thing. It is not programmed as in a computer, but rather it is condensed on a molecular scale in the chromosomal DNA or in that of any other organelle in each cell. This 'intelligence' is the sine qua non of life. If absent, no living being is imaginable. Where does it come from? This is a problem which concerns both biologists and philosophers and, at present, science seems incapable of solving it." — Pierre Grassé, in Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, (New York: Academic Press, 1977), p. 2