Follow this thread for insights from today's SFI Seminar by Juan Pérez-Mercader (SFI + @Harvard), which you can watch live on our FB page. Recording will be saved for later viewing at this link, as well as YT:
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#astrobiology #biochemistry #complexity
• n = 1
• no unified math
• can't modify carbon experimentally
• biology is still process-description
BUT: ✨ info-metabolism-replication-evolution ✨
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A recipe for bare-bones physico-chemical modeling of life in inorganic substrates, according to Juan Pérez-Mercader's SFI seminar today:
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#autocatalysis
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#ALife @ALifeConf #oscillation #biochemistry
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Polymerization induced self-assembly is "not that complicated. You need some good chemists."
Juan Pérez-Mercader (SFI/@harvard) in today's SFI seminar, streaming now on FB:
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Today's seminar from Juan Pérez-Mercader (SFI/@Harvard):
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origins.complexityexplorer.org
"Mimicking Simple Life Without #Biochemistry"
by Juan Pérez-Mercader
"...insights into #synthbio, as well as prebiotic membrane & vesicle formation en route to proto-life and the 1st #livingsystems on early Earth."