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These conservation laws apply to open systems (which biological platforms are). All ready at the cell level the primary concern is how to "efficiently" do energ
by orbifold 5y ago
These conservation laws apply to open systems (which biological platforms are). All ready at the cell level the primary concern is how to "efficiently" do energy cascades which sometimes have unintended (irreversible) side-effects. So cells get "garbage collected", there are other more system level irreversible changes, some intended (memory) and unintended, which I guess are indeed ultimately unsalvageable, which is why reproduction is a thing (pristine copy of genome in new cell).
- monocasa 5y agoEven in the case of reproduction, you don't end up with a pristine copy in a new cell. The study of epigenetics is the realization that cells don't have exec(), only fork(). Most state transfers to the child cells and isn't wiped during reproduction.