> Life can be thought out as a dynamical hy- percycle (DNA encodes proteins, proteins help DNA to self- replicate, DNA encodes proteins, etc.) that can survive

> Life can be thought out as a dynamical hy- percycle (DNA encodes proteins, proteins help DNA to self- replicate, DNA encodes proteins, etc.) that can survive indefi- nitely as long as free energy is available for it, and as long as self-replication goes faster than the destruction of information carriers. Somebody posted something on here awhile back, definitely last 2 years, that suggested a really novel & fun to think about view on “life”, stating that life is a manifold for information through spacetime. DNA must replicate in order to prevent its dissolution into entropy, and life therefore exists because nature threw together the right random shape for the building blocks of self-preserving space-time informational manifolds. I’m doubtlessly paraphrasing and summarizing poorly, but my inner hippie was going “whooaaaa mannnnn far out!!”