Living Computers: Replicators, Information Processing, and the Evolution of Life

Living Computers: Replicators, Information Processing, and the Evolution of Life – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192871947,0192871943,9780192871954, 0192871951

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0192871951
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192871954
• Author: Alvis Brazma

This accessible and entertaining book explores the fundamental connections between life and information and how they emerged inextricably linked, taking the reader on a journey through all the major evolutionary transitions. It records the entire path of how life’s information has evolved, starting from the growing polymers of prelife leading to the first replicators, through RNA and DNA to neural networks and animal brains, continuing through the major transition of human language and writing, into computer clouds, and finally heading towards an unknown future.

Table contents:

1. How to clone oneself?
2. Self-organising molecules
3. Informed self-organisation
4. The simplest life
5. Evolving replicators
6. Life on Earth
7. Evolution as a ratchet of information
8. From DNA to language
9. Epilogue – beyond language

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