>>13215591Life is just computation in nature. It begins darwinian evolving immediately whenever any chemical system becomes turing complete in bulk. The events in a Turing complete soup can in no way be said to be purely random, they stop being random after the first events. As the soup becomes more sophisticated through time evolution (which is Darwinian evolution), it becomes more intelligent in the precise computational sense. The result is teleological, the structures evolve toward greater complexity, and they stay teleological and directed as long as the computing soup stays computing. Wolfram/cook showed that life is not at all a rare event (a simple system whos rules are chosen at random has a relatively high probability of being turing complete, rule 110 being one such example).
