On my personal page, I posted a summary of an article I’d found on Quanta Magazine.
This article will be the topic of discussion for our meeting on Tuesday, January 26th. Please jump into the conversation by commenting below!
On my personal page, I posted a summary of an article I’d found on Quanta Magazine.
This article will be the topic of discussion for our meeting on Tuesday, January 26th. Please jump into the conversation by commenting below!
In reference to our discussion on energy, http://www.amazon.com/The-Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins/dp/0393088812
Nick Lane has written extensively about origins of life.
In the Quanta article, there’s also a link to a physics theory on the “why” of life:
“when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.”
This engineer can wrap his brain around that: thermodynamics!
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/
Is evolution intelligent? It shows evidence of deep learning!