Information; applied to matter creates life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 27, 2017, 21:49 (2675 days ago) @ David Turell

I found the original source for my previous entry on the importance of information for the appearance of life. See that previous entry for a complete understanding:

https://www.yhousenyc.org/yhouse-blog/all-posts/on-matter-and-information-the-origin-of...

The source:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/chasing-consciousness-and-the-infor...

"there appear to be deep-rooted commonalities between the emergence of complex chemistry and life, and the emergence of other phenomena - such as organism awareness, agency, and perhaps consciousness. Could it be that answers to all these puzzles converge on deeper principles?

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"Since Erwin Schrödinger wrote his influential 'What is Life?' book in 1944, the idea that information, order and chaos, thermodynamics, and life are all connected has continued to inspire and baffle us. But we may be starting to see convergence on these issues, and it may not be entirely coincidental that the timing is in step with our new-found exoplanetary perspective."

Comment: Information which can be used by the proteins of life somehow creates active life. Since Schrodinger's book there is still no answer as to how this happens. The proteins are material but the mechanism of life itself is an immaterial process.