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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
Written by:
Stuart A. Kauffman
Narrated by:
Bob Souer
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October 2019
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Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of 'becoming' in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere.
Building on concepts from his work at the Santa Fe Institute, Kauffman focuses in particular on the idea of cells constructing themselves and introduces concepts such as 'constraint closure.' Living systems are defined by the concept of 'organization' which has not been focused on in enough in previous works. Cells are autopoetic systems that build themselves: they literally construct their own constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom that constitutes the very thermodynamic work by which they build their own self creating constraints. Living cells are 'machines' that construct and assemble their own working parts. The emergence of such systems-the origin of life problem-was probably a spontaneous phase transition to self-reproduction in complex enough prebiotic systems. The resulting protocells were capable of Darwin's heritable variation, hence open-ended evolution by natural selection.
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