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FUTURE PREDICTIONS DIFFICULT. "For at least four decades, computing power has increased exponentially, roughly in accordance with Moore's law. Experts disagree on how much longer Moore's law will hold." https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

"THE QUASI-SPECIES THEORY of Eigen already demonstrates how information can then be generated from physical dynamics, selection being achievable through differences in rate coefficients for the production and destruction of such polymers." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

RUPTURED FABRIC. "Kurzweil extends Moore’s law to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit to future forms of computation. Whenever a technology approaches some kind of a barrier, he writes, a new technology will be invented to allow us to cross that barrier. He predicts that such paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to “technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”. https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

NEED FOR GENES? "Eigen gave a strong argument that autocatalytic sets without genetic underpinning have a problem in principle with evolvability. No proof of this conclusion has been given, but examples to date of autocatalytic sets without replicable elements have failed to exhibit convincing evolution." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

HUMAN REDESIGN. "Since the Big Bang, the universe has been in constant evolution and continuous transformation. First there were physical and chemical processes, then biological evolution, and finally now technological evolution. As we begin to ride the wave into human redesign, the destination is still largely unknown but the opportunities are almost limitless." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

WHY THIS IS NOT WELL KNOWN. “We show that the extent of Phanerozoic sedimentation in shallow continental seas can be accurately reproduced by modeling the accommodation space produced by the proposed glacial erosion, underlining the importance of glaciation as a means for lowering erosional base level. These results provide constraints on the sedimentary and geochemical environment in which the first multicellular animals evolved and diversified in the “Cambrian explosion” following the unconformity.” https://lnkd.in/d6fatHN View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues on the theme of the Great Unconformity (an unfortunate name). A contributor to why this massively important topic has been so overlooked and poorly assimilated is that it has been buried in badly written arcane writings and published mostly in esoteric journals. Ask a biologist what it is and you probably get a blank stare. However, this topic is very important for all the natural sciences. View in LinkedIn

UNCONFIRMED RESULT. "She and her research team are hesitant to term their nanobes "nanobacteria" until they are more certain of their evolutionary history and their general nature. She and her team have recently performed molecular analyses of these nanobes and found evidence for the presence of DNA." https://lnkd.in/dBbSDUB View in LinkedIn

NANOBE CONTROVERSY. "Martian meteorites such as ALH84001 have been speculated to contain trace fossils of nanobacteria. The softball-sized igneous meteorite shows microscopic worm-like and "ovid" nanofossils." https://lnkd.in/dBbSDUB View in LinkedIn

NANOBES IN METEORITE. “The Martian meteorite ALH84001, discovered in 1984 in the Antarctic, contained similar tubular structures which some astrobiologists suggested could be evidence of life at an earlier time on Mars.” Long live Fred Hoyle! https://lnkd.in/eckY5qA View in LinkedIn