Life 3.0

Max Tegmark – who also wrote Our Mathematical Universe – details how individual bacteria don’t learn how to survive and reproduce; they simply do it. Bacteria exemplify “Life 1.0” in that their hardware and software result from biological evolution.

People can’t perform basic survival tasks when they’re born. As children grow older, they take more control of the knowledge and skills they acquire as they mature, so they eventually can pursue the careers they want. Thus, people exemplify “Life 2.0.”