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Dan Brown • Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 5)
complexity, increasing differentiation/integration, increasing organization/structuration, increasing relative autonomy, increasing telos.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
this large bulk of work demonstrates that indeed our proteins could have been made with a lower number of different amino acids,
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Darwinian evolution uniquely solves the problem of life’s statistical improbability, because it works cumulatively and gradually. It really does broker a legitimate traverse from primordial simplicity to eventual complexity – and it is the only known theory capable of doing so. Human engineers can make complex things by design, but the whole point
... See moreRichard Dawkins • Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
there is no need to go outside the universe and identify a supernatural agent to account for our appearance in it, since there are good, entirely natural explanations available.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
What if the emergence of life was the inevitable result of a universe that naturally and ceaselessly generates complexity and information? If that were the case, it would be more accurate to describe life as a regularity rather than an anomaly—not a fluke but an imperative.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Complex products are not just arrangements of atoms that perform functions; rather, they are ordered arrangements of atoms that originated as imagination.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
In other words, a natural pressure to minimize free energy and produce entropy spontaneously creates an ordered structure with an objective function.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
may be useful to divide the “road map” to the minimal cell into different milestones of increasing complexity.