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What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

Author(s) -

Walter Fontana,

Leo W. Buss

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

ISBN - 0-7382-0232-0

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.91.2.757

Subject(s) - abstraction , order (exchange) , computer science , replication (statistics) , chemistry , theoretical computer science , mathematics , business , epistemology , philosophy , statistics , finance

We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing objects arise; (ii) if self-replication is inhibited, self-maintaining organizations arise; and (iii) self-maintaining organizations, once established, can combine into higher-order self-maintaining organizations.

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