Welcome to our Origin of Life Pages
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The first page starts with the question, what is life? On that page we explain our definition of interpretation and outline how we think acquisition of a capacity for interpretative responsiveness may have been important in the emergence of life.
The second page reports some results of computer modelling of Terrence Deacon's hypothetical proto-biotic entity, the autocell. This illustrates the benefit that would be gained by the acquisition by a protobiotic entity of a capacity for interpretative responsiveness to an environment.
These pages are based on L.T. Lui, Z.R. Yang, N. Lehman, B. Larsen, A.J.N. Robinson, and C.C.B. Southgate, Environment-specific state-changes in simple protobiotic systems: Investigation of the role of 'interpretive' responsiveness in the origin of life. Poster presented at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, San Diego, February 2010.
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