A new paper by Sara Walker and Paul Davies on "The Hidden Simplicity of Biology" is now available in Reports in Progress in Physics. The full text is available here.
Title: The Hidden Simplicity of Biology Authors: Paul Davies and Sara Walker Abstract: Life is so remarkable, and so unlike any other physical system, that it is tempting to attribute special factors to it. Physics is founded on the assumption that universal laws and principles underlie all natural phenomena, but is it far from clear that there are 'laws of life' with serious descriptive or predictive power analogous to the laws of physics. Nor is there (yet) a 'theoretical biology' in the same sense as theoretical physics. Part of the obstacle in developing a universal theory of biological organization concerns the daunting complexity of living organisms. However, many attempts have been made to glimpse simplicity lurking within this complexity, and to capture this simplicity mathematically. In this paper we review a promising new line of inquiry to bring coherence and order to the realm of biology by focusing on 'information' as a unifying concept.
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2/2/2017 12:55:40 pm
I am actually curious about this. Hopefully you can share more in the future.
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