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NEW FORMS. "Life for me is a physical process. In principle, living processes can be carried by different kinds of materials. You are not limited to biochemistry. In our laboratory, in experiments we did at both Los Alamos and here in Denmark, we were not using biological materials. We're using molecules that do not exist in modern biology. We're really building out of something that's different than what modern biology is using." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

PLANT IMPACT ON INSECTS. "Moreover, plant activities appear to have caused rates of evolution in terrestrial animals to accelerate. Late Palaeozoic insect and tetrapod faunas diversified together with terrestrial plants, and enhanced burial of organic carbon raised global oxygen levels, fuelling a spectacular radiation of insect gigantism." https://lnkd.in/dBS9JZw View in LinkedIn

LIFE DEFINED. “The ability to evolve, self-reproduce, metabolize, adapt and die." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

SIMPLEST FORM. "The game, of course, is: How simplistically can that be done? A modern cell is a really complicated machine, but many of us think life can be created in much, much simpler forms." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL CELL. "Because one kind of information control of how you grow and divide may turn out to be better than another information control of how you grow and divide, the better one will be selected and reproduce. As this process continues you have evolution, and then you're done. If you can implement a system that can do this, you have created a minimal cell." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. "There is also selection in society today between technologies, where different possible solutions are put to the market, where certain technologies prevail while other companies have to retool, do something else. That’s just how it is. Evolutionary technological processes are also documented in the literature by following patent records to see how different technologies are related." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NATURAL SELECTION OF CODE. "Evolution is a physical process, and it can be implemented in many, many different systems. We have computer processes that undergo evolution just as real as evolution seen in bacteria in the lab. Darwinian selection within artificial computer systems has existed for more then 20 years, and the properties are documented all over scientific literature." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF CODE. “Self-replicating computer programs may make copies of themselves with small variations. One of these variations may make the self-replication action a little faster, so that it can make more daughter programs. If we assume a constant population size, more of the fast replicators will eventually be selected for, and you see an evolutionary change in the populations from slow to fast replicators." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

BOLD IDEA. "Natural selection or selection and amplification are part of evolution. Evolution can happen in any material substrate. The substrate does not need to be biochemical." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

HEURISTIC METHOD. "Even though the protocellular systems we are working on are much, much simpler than modern cells, they are still so complicated chemically that it is very difficult to predict whether what we set out to do will work or not. We have to try it out. No theory or calculation can ensure that it will work or not." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn