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Life is a Self-Organizing Machine Driven by the Informational Cycle of Brillouin
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Michel, Denis |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Acquiring information is indisputably energy-consuming and conversely, the availability of information permits greater efficiency. Strangely, the scientific community long remained reluctant to establish a physical equivalence between the abstract notion of information and sensible thermodynamics. However, certain physicists such as Szilard and Brillouin proposed: (i) to give to information the status of a genuine thermodynamic entity (kBT ln2 joules/bit) and (ii) to link the capacity of storing information inferred from correlated systems, to that of indefinitely increasing organization. This positive feedback coupled to the self-templating molecular potential could provide a universal basis for the spontaneous rise of highly organized structures, typified by the emergence of life from a prebiotic chemical soup. Once established, this mechanism ensures the longevity and robustness of life envisioned as a general system, by allowing it to accumulate and optimize microstate-reducing recipes, thereby giving rise to strong nonlinearity, decisional capacity and multistability. Mechanisms possibly involved in priming this cycle are proposed. |
| Starting Page | 137 |
| Ending Page | 150 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11084-013-9329-2 |
| PubMed reference number | 23625038 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 43 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-013-9329-2 |
| Journal | Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |