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The Gaia Theory
According to the theory of evolution, all biological entities – from elephants and oak trees to cells and DNA molecules – are composed of smaller and simpler parts that ceaselessly combine and separate.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Is the cell really a machine?
The paper critiques the mechanistic view of cells as machines, highlighting instead their dynamic, self-organizing nature, supported by recent experimental findings in cellular architecture and protein complexes.
core.ac.ukWhat is a cell, anyway? In a narrow sense, a cell is an autonomous living unit that acts as a decoding machine for a gene. Genes provide instructions—code, if you will—to build proteins, the molecules that perform virtually all the work in a cell. Proteins enable biological reactions, coordinate signals within the cell, form its structural elements
... See moreSiddhartha Mukherjee • The Song of the Cell
To be alive means to have a continuous flow of energy and materials through this whole network, nanosecond by nanosecond, minute by minute, generation after generation.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Imagine for a moment that the rise of the dataome, and the transition to non-biological computation on Earth, is more like the very first burst of molecular oxygen that really persisted some two billion years ago.
Caleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Lovelock’s theory helps to explain how the delicate chemical ratios in our planet’s oceans and atmosphere are consistently maintained such that life is possible. According to the Gaia Hypothesis, it’s no accident that the environment on Earth is so ideal to support life. The Gaia Hypothesis has been extremely popular in the psychedelic community, a... See more