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DNA CONVERSION TO BINARY CODE. "DNA sequences are now recorded as binary code, which is replicated via file sharing, and used as a template to synthesize new DNA molecules." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

RECONSTRUCTING DNA. "Technological advances in molecular biology have now developed to the point where it is possible to store large amounts of DNA sequence in databases and resynthesize this DNA at distant locations or later dates." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

"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

NO ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION EXISTS? "In each case, the conventional answer seems to be—it cannot. It is not possible for evolution by natural selection to produce adaptations for an environment it has not yet encountered, to produce organisation at the system level without selection at the system level, or to create new units that are adaptive for a level of selection that does not yet exist." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

A MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. "In this case, non-biological information would be archived in a biological repository. Consequently, humans are embarking on fundamental extensions to the flow of information circumscribed by the Central Dogma. This is a major development in the course of evolutionary history." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION. "Can evolution at one level of organisation favour the creation of heritable evolutionary units that are adaptive at a higher-level of organisation? That is, can the evolution of reproductive organisations find new heritable units that are suitable for responding to selection at the higher level of organisation before that level of organisation exists?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn