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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

TWO BIG CATEGORIES OF ORGANISM. "Organisms are divided into autotrophs and heterotrophs according to their energy pathways." https://lnkd.in/dGm8C5j View in LinkedIn

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

INCREASING PLANETARY BIOINFORMATION. Arguably, all living creatures are designed first and foremost to generate ever more sophisticated biological information in the form of genes. All other activities of organisms are congruent with this primary goal. How creatures obtain their energy is insignificant when contrasted to this all-encompassing goal. View in LinkedIn

MATHEMATICALLY SPEAKING. "A certain law of the struggle for existence which may be expressed by a system of differential equations of competition remains invariable all the time." https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

STRUGGLE FOR ENTROPY. "The general struggle for existence of all living beings is not the struggle for the fundamental substances...but it is a struggle for entropy, which is available when energy passes from the hot sun to the cold earth." (Boltzmann). https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. "The complicated relationships between organisms which take place in nature have as their foundation definite elementary processes of the struggle for existence. Such an elementary process is that of one species devouring another, or when there is a competition for a common place between a small number of species in a limited microcosm." An interesting author. https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

THE POPULAR THEME of predation in nature in the media simply reinforces our cultural biases. This cheap sensationalism is the modern sofa-based gladiator pit, replete with gory horror. https://lnkd.in/dbXjWMi View in LinkedIn

SEARING IMAGE. Fischer and Tennyson provoke and almost certainly meant to describe the typical predator-prey relationship of a lion and an antelope. The image of the struggle of life on an individual basis. Run with the herd and thrive; be injured or get sick and the predators will pick you off. How may a purely biological viewpoint modify these deeply prevalent images of nature? View in LinkedIn

MAINSTREAM VIEW. "Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact." (Martin H. Fischer); "Nature red in tooth and claw." (Alfred Lord Tennyson). https://lnkd.in/d4pWgqG View in LinkedIn