Time is required for good assembly strategies to be discovered through trial and error; and this asymmetric evolutionary quest puts living things in a kind of memory-defined, directional time that has no real parallel in the abiotic world. True diamonds are forever, but we living quasi-diamonds each have our day; we must wait for the baby or the blade of grass to arrive at their own proper point in cosmic history. Even after all that waiting, though, we should still expect, when first looking into the strange blue eyes of this new example just fallen from the moon, to be once again surprised by the newest twists and turns in Darwin’s evolving snowflake. Bibliography Albert, D. (2000) Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Time and Chance. Cairns Smith, A. G. (1990) Cambridge: Canto Press. Seven Clues to the Origin of Life. B. and Shepherd, G. (1987) New York: W. H. Tilings and Patterns. Freeman & Co. Janot, C. (1994) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Quasicrystals: a Primer. Kauffman, S. (1993) Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Origins of Order. Maynard Smith, J. (1982) Cambridge: Cambridge Evolution and the Theory of Games. University Press. Patthy, L. (1999) Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Protein Evolution. Robinson, G, (1978) and Nonperiodicity for Tilings of the ‘Undecidability 1978; 12: 177 209. Inventiones Mathematicae – Schrödinger, E. (1947) New York: What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Macmillan. Van Ophuysen (1991) and Aperiodicity of d-Dimensional Tilings.’ In ‘Non-Locality Jiri Patera, ed. Toronto: Fields Institute Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry. Monographs. Von Neumann, J. (1966) Edited and Compiled by Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Arthur W. Burks. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Wang (1965) Games, and Computers.’ November 1965, pp. Scientific American, ‘Logic, 98 -106.
Time is required for good assembly strategies to be discovered through trial and error; and this asymmetric evolutionary quest puts living things in a kind of memory-defined, directional time that has no real parallel in the abiotic world. True diamonds are forever, but we living quasi-diamonds each have our day; we must wait for the baby or the blade of grass to arrive at their own proper point in cosmic history. Even after all that waiting, though, we should still expect, when first looking into the strange blue eyes of this new example just fallen from the moon, to be once again surprised by the newest twists and turns in Darwin’s evolving snowflake. Bibliography Albert, D. (2000) Time and Chance. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Cairns Smith, A. G. (1990) Seven Clues to the Origin of Life. Cambridge: Canto Press. B. and Shepherd, G. (1987) Tilings and Patterns. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co. Janot, C. (1994) Quasicrystals: a Primer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kauffman, S. (1993) The Origins of Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Maynard Smith, J. (1982) Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Patthy, L. (1999) Protein Evolution. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Robinson, G, (1978) ‘Undecidability and Nonperiodicity for Tilings of the Inventiones Mathematicae 1978; 12: 177 – 209. Schrödinger, E. (1947) What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. New York: Macmillan. Van Ophuysen (1991) ‘Non-Locality and Aperiodicity of d-Dimensional Tilings.’ In Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry. Jiri Patera, ed. Toronto: Fields Institute Monographs. Von Neumann, J. (1966) Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Edited and Compiled by Arthur W. Burks. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Wang (1965) ‘Logic, Games, and Computers.’ Scientific American, November 1965, pp. 98 -106.
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