Froese, Tom (2021) To understand the origin of life we must first understand the role of normativity. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Deacon develops a minimal model of a nonparasitic virus to explore how nucleotide sequences came to be characterized by a code-like informational at the origin of life. The model serves to problematize the concept of biological normativity because it highlights two common yet typically implicit assumptions: (1) that life could consist as an inert form, were it not for extrinsic sources of physical instability, and (2) that life could have originated as a singular self-contained individual. I propose that the origin of life, the genetic code, and biological normativity more generally, lead us to reject this passive individualism.
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| Additional Information: | Accepted commentary on the target article by Terrence Deacon in Biosemiotics | ||||||
| Keywords: | autopoiesis, enactive cognitive science, embodied cognition, genetic code, artificial life, synthetic biology | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Tom Froese | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2021 01:45 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2021 01:45 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19846 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems |
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| Date: | 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19846 |
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