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"DIGITIZATION may have been a natural outcome of this process in reaction networks that had once been primarily analogue. At this point, information would have become separated from its physical representation, permitting information to become a causal influence in its own right, and the language of Turing and von Neumann would have begun to apply." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS the first weekend on the examination of whether life is "red in tooth and claw." When viewed from the energy flow from the sun to the broad photosynthetic base of creatures that support an increasingly narrow pyramid of creatures that feed off those who convert sunlight to complex molecules, it is clear that life on our planet may be better expressed as "green in leaf and stalk." View in LinkedIn

PHOTON-DRIVEN PLANET. "Net primary production is the rate at which new biomass is generated, mainly due to photosynthesis." Perhaps this is the end of the discussion. https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. "Molecular technologies are now adding a further layer to this information flow. For the first time in 3.7 billion years, the Central Dogma has acquired an additional step, to include digital storage of biological information." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

BROAD PHOTOSYNTHETIC BASE. "One of the oldest and most important paradigms in ecology suggests that biomass is usually distributed as a pyramid, where a broad autotrophic base supports successfully smaller strata of heterotrophs." Photon-driven life. https://lnkd.in/diNPaDG View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. "Such technologies might become a significant mechanism for creation and manipulation of organisms, allowing directed and ‘artificial’ evolution." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

NEGATIVE ENTROPY. "Natural Selection helps to select species which are most effective in survival and can efficiently utilize energy and negative entropy. The Sun provides the energy and entropy to produce basic organic compounds." http://www.digital-recordings.com/publ/publife.html View in LinkedIn

PREDICTIVE EVOLUTION. "Can development be organised to facilitate future adaptation? That is, can evolution ‘predict’ or ‘anticipate’ what developmental organisations will enable adaptive variation in new environments that it has not yet been exposed to?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

DUSTING OFF DARWIN. "Such problems motivate the growing recognition that the Darwinian machine needs an overhaul: That self-referential evolutionary mechanisms (where the products of evolution alter the processes of evolution) create serious problems for existing theory, and that a new and expanded theoretical framework is needed that integrates “eco-evo-devo” processes (and we would add “ego” to this list also)." https://lnkd.in/dTqS4ZN View in LinkedIn

HIGHER LEVEL SELECTION. "In the absence of a higher-level selective process that might favour evolutionary processes that are successful in the long term, it seems equally likely that such organisations might constrain or frustrate subsequent adaptation." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn