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ENERGY INTERDEPENDENCE. "Life on Earth is organized in the form of a pyramid of interdependence. At the base of this pyramid are species which use photosynthetic processes to synthesize basic organic compounds. Negative entropy and energy flows from the Sun and is converted into highly-structured organic compounds such as carbohydrates. The entropy of the material used in the process of photosynthesis is decreased due to negative-entropy-driven structuring of this matter." http://www.digital-recordings.com/publ/publife.html View in LinkedIn

ARCHIVING ORGANISMS. "In the near future, significant and growing proportions of organismal DNA sequence will be captured digitally, and it will become commonplace to reconstruct genomes by chemical synthesis." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

LIFE ENGINEERING. "Several technologies are combining to transform this research tool into a practical means of shaping the living world." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES. "Information stored electronically can be used to direct artificial synthesis of the corresponding DNA. Complex DNA syntheses are rapidly becoming faster, more accurate, and more efficient, such that whole chromosomes can be synthesized and manipulated." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

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