"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM&amp;t=30m25s"">30:25</a> "There's some contingent information embodied outside the genome"," in the cell" The program is useless without the computer it is written to execute on!<br><br>EDIT: <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM&amp;t=2h05m00s"">2:05:00</a> W.R.T. Leibniz and assembly theory", the Monad really is a wonderful concept of if not 'memory' then at least information being carried forward through a process.