Month: September 2022

SAME PATTERNS. "Randomized sequences appear almost identical to natural sequences in the composition of each structural component; furthermore, they show the same patterns of variation, even though these randomized sequences are not evolved and do not have biological functions." (Ribosomal RNA). https://lnkd.in/erj2nzZ View in LinkedIn

VIRAL COMMUNITIES. "But membership is also dynamic, since the collective changes. This means a fittest type individual becomes a nonmember if it fails to keep up with membership changes (ie, does not participate in shared common experience by learning). The concept of virus involves the concept of transmission." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

THE VERY GREY ZONE. "In quasispecies the ensembles of RNA stem loops (ribozymatic hairpin structures) represent not solely content that rather specify self from nonself, but in parallel—and this truly seems the start of living processes—they act as agents, obedient to chemical/physical laws and, in contrast to interactions in the inanimate world, to syntactic, pragmatic, semantic rules. It is exactly this latter feature that is absent in inanimate nature." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

AGENTS WITH SEMANTIC RULES. "And exactly this feature is an inherent characteristic for the communicative and linguistic competencies of living agents in biocommunication processes throughout all kingdoms." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

SELF AND NON-SELF GROUPS. "Now we have molecular structures coherent with physical laws that store genetic information and actively generate behavioral motifs and patterns of interaction, that is, coordinate common behavior according to rules that lead to consortia of self and nonself groups. This resembles some kinds of social group behavior with shared features." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

VIRAL SOCIAL GROUP BEHAVIOR. "Bottom-up processes tolerant of and needing diversity" "spontaneous formation of group behavior; de novo initiation of behavior that cannot be deduced from former behavioral patterns; highly adaptive processes; lacking central or fittest type control" "retaining a contextual history; smart (optimal energy costs); solves problems beyond the capacity of its individual members; fast changing reactions against nonmembers." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

RNA SOCIOBIOLOGY. "If we take now a step away from mainstream molecular biology (including the physical chemical properties of quasispecies and mutant spectra) and systems biology (nonreductionistic physicalism) and move toward a more consortial thinking of cooperative ensembles of RNA stem loops, viruses, and subviral remnants of former infection events, we should move toward a kind of RNA sociology." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

NO SELF-CODING CODE. "The crucial deficit in this assumption was ignorance of the agent perspective: no natural code codes itself, as no natural language speaks itself. In natural languages or codes, there must be living agents that generate signs and combine them into more complex sign sequences." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

CODE SCRIPT. "The machine metaphor for living organisms is outdated. Life’s code script does not code itself." https://lnkd.in/eeiUHXC View in LinkedIn

"VON NEUMANN thought of his logical model of self-reproduction as an answer to the observation that, unlike machines, biological organisms have the ability to self-replicate while seemingly increasing their complexity without limit. Mechanical artefacts are instead produced via more complicated factories (as opposed to self-production) and can only degenerate in their complexity." https://lnkd.in/eixDbva View in LinkedIn