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ORGANIZED INFORMATION. “Whereas self-assembly may be taken as simple collection and aggregation of components into a confined entity, we shall here consider self-organization as the spontaneous but information-directed generation of organized functional structures in equilibrium conditions.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

IGNORING DIVERSITY HAS COSTS. “It no longer seems heretical to assert that our long-lasting and prevailing focus on a handful of animal model systems has been too reductionist. We will not understand life if we keep ignoring most of the existing diversity — there is more to learn about molecular biology, cell biology, neurobiology and developmental biology than the mouse, Drosophila or nematode worm can tell us.” http://extavourlab.com/pdfs/papers/2016_Extavour_CurrOpGenetDev.pdf View in LinkedIn

FROM INANIMATE TO ANIMATE. “Understanding, inducing, and directing self-processes is key to unraveling the progressive emergence of complex matter. Self-organization is the driving force that led up to the evolution of the biological world from inanimate matter.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

“CHEMICAL PROGRAMMING requires the incorporation into molecular components of suitable instructions for generation of a well-defined supramolecular entity. The program is molecular, the information being contained in the covalent structural framework; its operation is supramolecular, making use of recognition algorithms based on specific interaction patterns.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMED MOLECULAR SYSTEMS. “Systems undergoing self-organization, i.e., systems capable of spontaneously generating well-defined, organized, and functional supramolecular architectures by self-assembly from their components, thus behaving as programmed systems.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

CHEMISTRY OF INFORMATION. “Supramolecular chemistry has developed as the chemistry of the entities generated by intermolecular noncovalent interactions. Through the appropriate manipulation of these interactions, it became progressively the chemistry of molecular information, involving the storage of information at the molecular level, in the structural features, and its retrieval, transfer, and processing at the supramolecular level, by interactional algorithms operating through molecular recognition events based on well-defined interaction patterns (hydrogen bonding arrays, sequences of donor and acceptor groups, ion coordination sites, etc.).” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR INFORMATION. “Supramolecular chemistry has paved the way toward apprehending chemistry as an information science through the implementation of the concept of molecular information with the aim of gaining progressive control over the spatial (structural) and temporal (dynamic) features of matter and over its complexification through self-organization, the drive to life.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

ROAD TO COMPLEXITY. “Thus emerges the prime question set to science, in particular to chemistry, the science of the structure and transformation of matter: how does matter become complex? What are the steps and the processes that lead from the elementary particle to the thinking organism, the (present!) entity of highest complexity?” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

INCREASING COMPLEXITY. “As the wind of time blows into the sails of space, the unfolding of the universe nurtures the evolution of matter under the pressure of information. From divided to condensed and on to organized, living, and thinking matter, the path is toward an increase in complexity through self-organization.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend abstracts a fascinating article about how simple chemicals can self-assemble into complex architectures (supramolecular chemistry), using the weak bond information within molecules, and programming a variety of outputs, leading to truly emergent phenomena at higher levels of complexity. It seems that we have greatly underestimated so-called simple inanimate matter. https://lnkd.in/d88ypEi View in LinkedIn