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Biological function and the genetic code are interdependent

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  • Voie, Øyvind Albert

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Life never ceases to astonish scientists as its secrets are more and more revealed. In particular the origin of life remains a mystery. One wonders how the scientific community could unravel a one-time past-tense event with such low probability. This paper shows that there are logical reasons for this problem. Life expresses both function and sign systems. This parallels the logically necessary symbolic self-referring structure in self-reproducing systems. Due to the abstract realm of function and sign systems, life is not a subsystem of natural laws. This suggests that our reason is limited in respect to solve the problem of the origin of life and that we are left taking life as an axiom.

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  • Voie, Øyvind Albert, 2006. "Biological function and the genetic code are interdependent," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 1000-1004.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:28:y:2006:i:4:p:1000-1004
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2005.08.146
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