"'The #energy that flows through a system acts to organize that system,' Harold Morowitz wrote in 1968. Decades later he would team up with physicist Eric Smith at SFI, and the collaboration would lay out a new theory of #abiogenesis."
@BobbyAzarian:
rawstory.com/darwin-2657159…
@BobbyAzarian:
rawstory.com/darwin-2657159…
"According to Smith & Morowitz, life emerged b/c Earth’s geochemistry created an excess of chemical energy. Organic chemistry self-organize[s] when sufficient energy [flows] through the system. Given enough time, a self-maintaining chemical system emerges that can copy itself."
"'If life in its abundance were bound to arise, not as an incalculably improbable accident, but as an expected fulfillment of the natural order,' writes origins-of-life pioneer Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute, 'then we truly are at home in the universe.'"
For more on complex systems research into the origins of life, join the @ComplexExplorer email list to enroll when our free online course returns this summer:
complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-ori…
And dig into our panel discussion on the topic from #IPFest 2019:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/2
complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-ori…
And dig into our panel discussion on the topic from #IPFest 2019:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/2
More SFI origins of life content in series of #astrobiology talks:
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
+Paul Davies:
+Nick Lane:
+Eric Smith:
+@mikha_ehl:
+@Sara_Imari:
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
+Paul Davies:
+Nick Lane:
+Eric Smith:
+@mikha_ehl:
+@Sara_Imari:
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