Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.Image source: Miguel Romero, Adobe StockIn 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself — just as the Hungarian-American Polymath John von Neumann had predicted half a century earlier. It was a striking demonstration of a profound idea: that life, at its core, might be computational.Altho...