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"THE FIRST DIMENSION of heredity and evolution is the genetic dimension. It is the fundamental system of information transfer in the biological world and is central to the evolution of life on earth." https://lnkd.in/dhH9wkB View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this difficult but deeply brilliant article on the organization of life versus non-life, from the perspective of how the information is organized, located, and controlled. Worth a thorough study. http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

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

UNIQUE TRANSITION. "Characterizing the emergence of life as a shift in causal structure due to information gaining causal efficacy over matter marks the origin of life as a unique transition in the physical realm." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

"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