Name
Abstract | ||
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Disagreement over whether life is inevitable when the conditions can support life remains unresolved, but calculations show that self-organization can arise naturally from purely random effects. Closure to efficient causation, or the need for all specific catalysts used by an organism to be produced internally, implies that a true model of an organism cannot exist, though this does not exclude the possibility that some characteristics can be simulated. Such simulations indicate that there is a limit to how small a self-organizing system can be: much smaller than a bacterial cell, but around the size of a typical virus particle. All current theories of life incorporate, at least implicitly, the idea of catalysis, but they largely ignore the need for metabolic regulation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1007/s12064-021-00342-w | Theory in Biosciences |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Self-organization, Emergence, Autotrophy, LUCA, Catalysis, RNA world, Chirality, Regulation, Simulation | Journal | 141 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 1431-7613 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 6 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornish-Bowden A | 1 | 839 | 104.08 |
| María Luz Cárdenas | 2 | 1 | 0.72 |