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This article deals with the basic question of the design principles of biological entities and artificial ones expressed by Gerald Edelman’s question – “Is evolution a Turing machine“? There is a general belief asserting that the main difference between evolutionary computation and Turing model lies in the fact that biological entities become infinitely diverse (analog) and fundamentally indeterminate states. I am of the opinion that this difference is not the issue. Because the nature has on its elementary level quantum structure which is therefore basically digital. Differentiation between evolution and human-formed machine lies in the physical structure of biological entities linked to the scaling of all physical levels. This architecture works as multi-domain value system whose most basic function is the categorization of events entering the field of interaction of the organism. Human thinking as a product of evolution is a prime example of this process. Processes of Turing machine simulate only a certain aspect of thinking and are not able to implement many others. Evolution, therefore, is not Turing machine.