linkedin post 2016-11-20 06:53:30

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CATEGORY #1. PHOTONS AS FOOD. "Autotrophs are those organisms that are able to make energy-containing organic molecules from inorganic raw material by using basic energy sources such as sunlight. Plants are the prime example of autotrophs, using photosynthesis." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/autotroph.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-11-20 06:51:34

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SOLAR POWERED LIFE. "The food chain in the forest begins with the sun's energy, arriving fresh from its 93,000,000 mile, eight minute journey across the Solar System." The only (perplexing) exception is the life converting chemicals into complex matter in lightless deep sea vents. https://lnkd.in/dEw_p5h View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-11-18 07:14:25

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CAUSAL EFFICACY. "We have presented a framework for understanding the origin of life as a transition in causal structure, and information management and control, whereby information gains causal efficacy over the matter it is instantiated in." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-11-19 06:05:28

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LATERAL GENE TRANSFER has been a promiscuous and widespread phenomena in living things, driven by ancient virus fragments. These mobile genetic elements are enormous sources of genetic diversity, and have demonstrably taken over the regulation of many organisms as well as driving evolution itself. All by creatures who are the ghosts in the machine, who do not eat, only reproduce. The little automatons behind the wheel. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-11-21 04:55:15

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HIGHER LEVEL INFORMATION "distinguishes non-living dynamical systems, which display trivial information processing only, from living systems (and the complex systems derivative of biological systems, such as computers) which display non-trivial information processing as two logically and organizationally distinct kinds of dynamical systems." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn
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