Thanks Steve, I didn't know that this existed. It is really hopeful that the author of the series puts Guy's work in the same frame as Carl Woese's, probably without realizing that I am part of collaborations with both of them. That suggests that the idea is taking on some recognizable coherence of its own, because the way Carl says these things is rather drastically different than the way Guy does, and Carl considers a rather different set of questions to be primary. However, I also believe it is correct to see the two representations as reflecting the same essential missing parts in current biological theory (which parts are also a missing part of current physical theory). So the author must be seeing the idea through its very different set of representations.
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