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UNPROVEN CONJECTURE. "The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research." (A.M. Turing, 1950). http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php View in LinkedIn

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. “If certain chemical properties exist on a planet and certain physical conditions obtain, life will start by self-reproducing macromolecular cycles which act in a complementary way.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

THINKING MACHINES. "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." (A.M. Turing, 1950). http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php View in LinkedIn

EIGEN’S CONTRIBUTION. “Manfred Eigen developed a model of how the essential features of life and its inherent complexity can be explained by physical properties of matter.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

THE IMITATION GAME. "I believe that in about fifty years time it will be possible to programme computers with a storage capacity of about 10(9) to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning." (A.M. Turing, 1950). http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGY IS PHYSICS WITH COMPUTATION. “It follows that biology is physics with computation. This was the core paradigm of molecular biology for almost the next half-century.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

ORIGINS IN TURING’S AI. “The fundamental concept that integrated this new biological “information” with matter and energy was enshrined in the universal Turing machine and von Neumann‘s self-reproducing machines.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

REVOLUTIONARY COMPLEXITY. “The components of DNA are simple chemicals, but the biological complexity that can be generated by the information of different sequences is revolutionary.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

ECOLOGY OF DNA PARASITES. “In this respect DNA remains as ecosphere habitat for social interacting RNA inhabitants. This represents a pragmatic turn in biology from syntax centered molecular biology to pragmatics centered agents interactions.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

CODE AGENTS ARE DNA PARASITES. “Therefore I suppose that changes in the genetic code, which are of evolutionary relevance, are rather the result of fine-tuned processes by a large network of mobile genetic elements, persistent viruses, its defectives and other genetic parasites that alter DNA sequences.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn