On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 11:03:38 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Am 18.01.2021 um 01:01 schrieb Lawrence Crowell: > > There are molecules that already do this. DNA and polypeptides are > > sequences that are in effect codes. > > Yes, this is exactly the point by the prize. The question is to show how > something like this could happen spontaneously. > > Evgeny > > I think it does involve something to do with the contact between the quantum and macroscopic world. Quantum mechanics is purely Markovian, in that fluctuations do not communicate information that is stored. Biology and by extension chemistry in an open thermodynamic setting are subMarkovian, which means that memory of the state of a system is possible. In some manner this occurs in some einselection of quantum states as large N unit of quantum action systems that are stable against environmental decoherence.
LC > > > LC > > > > On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 12:28:18 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > > > >> "How do you get from chemicals to code? How do you get a code without > >> designing one?" > >> > >> "What You Must Do to Win The Prize > >> > >> You must arrange for a digital communication system to emerge or > >> self-evolve without "cheating." The diagram below describes the system. > >> Without explicitly designing the system, your experiment must generate > >> an encoder that sends digital code to a decoder. Your system needs to > >> transmit at least five bits of information. (In other words it has to > be > >> able to represent 32 states. The genetic code supports 64.) " > >> > >> https://www.herox.com/evolution2.0 > >> > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7fa4ffd9-ddbf-4c63-bc78-39e24946719an%40googlegroups.com.
