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SURPRISE FINDING. "The three domains of life diverged billions of years ago and, although the rRNA molecule is conserved for function in the different domains, the nonfunctional parts presumably varied independently in each lineage. Since there is no known sequence homology between the two ribosomal subunits, these subunits have no apparent shared ancestry. It is therefore surprising to see the same patterns of variation across all domains and both subunits." https://lnkd.in/erj2nzZ View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE IS NOT REDUCTIONISTIC. "In our opinion, such a mechanistic, bottom-up doctrine does not explain the true living nature of organisms as it ignores the top-down, context-dependent and agent-based aspects of living nature." https://lnkd.in/eeiUHXC View in LinkedIn

CODE SCRIPT. "Physicist Erwin Schrödinger confused the program and the constructor in his 1944 book What is Life?, in which he saw chromosomes as “architect's plan and builder's craft in one”. This is wrong. The code script contains only a description of the executive function, not the function itself.” [Brenner, 2012]." https://lnkd.in/eixDbva View in LinkedIn

"A TURING MACHINE is a hypothetical machine thought of by the mathematician Alan Turing in 1936. Despite its simplicity, the machine can simulate ANY computer algorithm, no matter how complicated it is! It consists of an infinitely-long tape which acts like the memory in a typical computer, or any other form of data storage." https://lnkd.in/enMamia View in LinkedIn

MECHANICAL LIFE. "Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner argued that Turing machines have much in common with cells and living organisms; that cells and living organisms are, in fact, the best examples of Turing’s and von Neumann’s machines." 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

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 "The machine metaphor for living organisms is outdated.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

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

GENES ARE A PART BUT NOT ALL. "Claims that the ‘book of life’ is written in the genetic programme of the genome are not embracing the whole complexity of living organisms. The concept of genes as a symbolic representation of an organism— a code script—is not the whole story." https://lnkd.in/eeiUHXC View in LinkedIn

FOR THE GREATER GOOD. "By killing itself, the host kills the parasite, thereby reducing the chances that the parasite will infect its kin. Suicidal behavior has been documented in pea aphids...infected with a braconid wasp...When given the opportunity, infected pea aphids are more likely to participate in risky behavior that leads to death by a predator than non-infected aphids. This behavior has been shown to decrease the risk of offspring infection." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasites_and_parasitoids View in LinkedIn