"SCIENTIFIC MYTHS"
Ramón Luis Pizarro Romero
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From SUMMA Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem, english translation by Joanna Zylinska, pp.92
"Cybernetics is thus first of all a science of achieving goals that cannot be achieved directly.
"We've seen a model of a device consisting of eight trillion elements," we tell an engineer. "This device has its own energy center, locomotive systems, a hierarchy of regulators, and a timing belt that consists of fifteen billion parts. It can perform so many functions that we wouldn't even be able to list them all during our lifetime. Yet the formula that not only enabled the construction of this device but actually constructed it was fully contained within the cubic capacity of 8/1000 of a millimeter."
The engineer replies that this is impossible. He is wrong, because we were talking about the head of the human spermatozoon, which, as we know, contains all the information that is needed to produce a specimen of the Homo sapiens."