Origin of Life: whole cell (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, September 22, 2013, 21:32 (4081 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: In your post under "Cambrian Explosion" you wrote: "Cells described in the article can evolve." Unfortunately, unless I've missed something, this is one vital area not covered. The article deals specifically with self-replication, and the enormous problem that such complexity poses for Origin of Life theories, but not with evolution.-See below: 
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> dhw:What I found particularly interesting was the component the author calls the "Construction Planner", which "is responsible to use the information in its construction plan to coordinate the activities of various component types in the cell and to coordinate the overall progress of the cloning and the division phases of the cell replication." It is this CP which issues instructions to all the other components. If changes are to take place, i.e. the innovations which have driven evolution from single cells to humans, they would have to be the result of instructions issued by the CP. When cells combine, the CP in each of them would have to exchange information with other CPs to ensure a smooth fusion, and accordingly it would have to change the instructions given to its own set of components. I would suggest that the author's CP is what I would call the "intelligence".-I'm prsenting the same idea. The CP is in DNA and presents intelligently provided information for evolution to proceed.