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Comment author: James_Miller 12 July 2012 05:57:47PM 1 point [-]

When I interviewed Vinge for my book on the Singularity he said

1) Life is a subroutine threaded code and it's very hard to get rid of all dependencies. 2) If all machines went away we would build up to a singularity again because this is in our nature so keeping us is a kind of backup system.

Contact me if you want more details for a formal citation. I took and still have notes from the interview.