A World Beyond Physics Kauffman Stuart A.
A World Beyond Physics Kauffman Stuart A. How did life start? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex…
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A World Beyond Physics Kauffman Stuart A.
How did life start? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction, metabolism and to early protocells, and further evolution to what we recognize as life. Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws?
That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality.
But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere.Building on concepts from his work as a complex systems researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, Kauffman focuses in particular on the idea of cells