Dear Koichiro, lists At 9:54 PM 09/19/2014, Frederik wrote:
In intellectual history I think the idea that cyclic, self-sustaining processes may play a special role in biology goes at least back to Kant (in the latter half of the 3rd Critique). Philosophically, it could be okay. In practice, however, it says nothing special about the empirical likelihood of the emergence of such a cycle. That is certainly right. Kant's deliberations are sketchy at best. Stil, getting the basic idea is not a bad achievement. But maybe there were anticipators before Kant, I do not know - A key issue must be how the cycle carrying the capacity of searching for the needed resources from within could come into being in the first place. The relationship between the whole reaction cycle and the component reactants looks quite subtle, like the advertisement of life insurance repeating “all for one, and one for all”. That is correct. We would certainly like to see empirical candidates for such a simple cycle outside of the protective membrane of a cell (which forms another very basic prerequisite to semioitic processes proper, would be my guess). Best f
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