the authors shift attention from the hardware – the chemical basis of life – to the software – its information content. To use a computer analogy, chemistry explains the material substance of the machine, but it wont function without a program and data. Davies and Walker suggest that the crucial distinction between non-life and life is the way that living organisms manage the information flowing through the system. When we describe biological processes we typically use informational narratives – cells send out signals, developmental programs are run, coded instructions are read, genomic data are transmitted between generations and so forth, Walker said. So identifying lifes origin in the way information is processed and managed can open up new avenues for research. dailygalaxy/my_weblog/2013/10/radical-theory-says-transition-from-inorganic-to-organic-life-was-based-on-information-not-chemistry.html
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:03:05 +0000
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