The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

The sigmoidicity of the curves is strongly dependent on pH as well as on temperature,

cognition is the general background on which the particular process of consciousness may develop.

They propose that the primordial ribosome was actually a ribozyme, with the proposition that the proto-ribosome is the entity around which life has evolved.

autocatalytic process: the product of the reaction

The FidiPro program brings Kauffman to Tampere University of Technology. The subject of the program is stochastic modeling of gene regulatory networks. The project will focus on modeling the gene regulatory networks using gene expression data.

not very useful, nor correct from an epistemic point of view. It applies to populations (Darwinian), and is completely silent if you consider a single living organism at a time

It is clear, however, that ribosomes could be “simplified” – although at the expense of some activity. This observation is relevant in view of the origin of life and origin of ribosomes, as it conveys the idea that ribosomes might have started in a much simpler form, certainly with a lower number of proteins.

the main feature of autopoiesis is self-maintenance due to a process of self-generation from within.

self-organization, processes which are thermodynamically favored and constructing at the same time higher order.