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This shows how life is emergent from simple rules.
by hsnewman 3y ago
This shows how life is emergent from simple rules.
- downboots 3y agohow does it show it? what is meant by life? are rules necessary or just transitions? what enables rules at all?
- hyperific 3y agoPhysical and chemical properties of organic molecules give rise to emergent life-like structures/patterns. Molecules interacting via hydrogen bonding, solubility, hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity - repulsion and attraction - can produce protomembranes under the right conditions. In this demonstration, particles with certain rules can interact in such a way that self-organizing structures emerge.
- matt-attack 3y agoA general question by those that support ideas like Intelligent Design seem to focus on the notion of order from randomness. Specifically the natural intuition is that the vast amount of order associated with life could never arise on its own from just randomness. It's encouraging to be able to so quickly demonstrate that in fact order can emerge from chaos. Even if the organelles or molecules or whatever you might consider them in these simulations don't map specifically to organelles or molecules or cells in our world, the general concept is important to understand.
- downboots 3y agowhere do the rules come from? Is it randomness all the way down? how come they run at all? how can a lifeform in a dynamic mess of jiggling things have a claim to understanding?
- smusamashah 3y agoNone of these simulated systems show replication evolving out of random rules though.
- quickthrower2 3y agoNot enough compute, I guess :-).
- MagicMoonlight 3y agoIf you fully simulated RNA they would. Someone has already reproduced RNA that self-replicates.