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Date(s) - 06/09/2024
15:00 - 17:00
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IS THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE AN EXPECTED PHASE TRANSITION IN THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE?
STUART KAUFFMAN
06/09/2024 – 6a. f- 15:00 h – sala L776
We propose a novel definition of life in terms of which its emergence in the universe is expected, and its ever-creative open-ended evolution is entailed by no
law. Living organisms are Kantian Wholes that achieve Catalytic Closure, Constraint Closure, and Spatial Closure. We here unite two established
mathematical theories. Together these imply that life is expected as a phase transition in the evolving universe. Also, we learn that the familiar distinction
between software and hardware loses its meaning in living cells. We propose new astronomical ways to search for life on exoplanets and in the solar system,
new experiments to seek the emergence of the most rudimentary life, and the hint of a coherent testable pathway to prokaryotes with template replication and
coding.