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It's definitely easier to understand a microprocessor than chemical-oriented protein systems that have mostly evolved into an operable state by chance.

A CPU is founded on a limited set of basic components that possess reasonable qualities, behave consistently, and only scale to large quantities with identical repetition.

Just leave out the deeper materials science and solid state quantum physics behind the "why" of how transistors operate.


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